This painting is a layered mixed media painting, dye, ink, and oil paint on canvas with clear gesso sealing each layer before the layer of oil paint. The dye represents the things in our life we can not control. The pigment is mixed with water and poured on the raw canvas, soaking into the areas pulled tight with the copper tacks that keep the canvas on the stretchers. The ink is painted into the grid, the ink is applied three times each color begins to create balance. This layer represents the community. Just as we find balance in our lives and make sense of the world around us. The is charcoal is one continuous line creating circles intertwining contained within the bounds of the canvas. The oil paint is the final layer applied.