Description
A fine art canvas giclee from my painting “Together We Heal”
Artist: Michael Francis Lott
3/4″ thick (depth) stretcher bars
1×1/16″ rustic white or charcoal brown wooden frame
This giclee art print is created with high quality archival inks made to last hundreds of years and is printed on a high quality artisan canvas.
All canvases will be packed in a plastic sleeve, and a cardboard insert for extra security.
*Custom sizes available! Email me directly for more information on custom sizes: michaelfrancislott@gmail.com
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My inspiration behind this piece:
“Accepting that you are never alone, in anything that you are facing, no matter what it is – this is what will free you from shame. And this is what will heal you.”
This piece is probably one of the most meaningful pieces that I have ever created.
This piece came through upon being completely shattered after a very confronting dark night of the soul, and met me in the face of a budding new love, rising up from the cracks of what had been broken open within me.
Creating it was like meeting myself again for the first time, after moving through an excruciating crucifixion of the person I once thought myself to be.
One of the major realizations that has been responsible for this death and rebirth was:
Ultimately, we do not heal on our own.
We heal, together.
And together, we are made whole.
And for me, this is not some cliche “Kumbaya” moment of spiritual fluff, but rather a deep rewiring of my nervous system, and a complete breakdown of my default trauma responses and coping strategies that had sustained the rigidity of my ego’s hardened spiritual facade.
This piece reflects the very first breaths of an emerging new self, breaking the chains of long-standing generational guilt, shame, and deep existential loneliness.
And there are many layers to this insight.
First, I realized that our nervous systems literally need co-regulation with other nervous systems in order to fully rewire, re-pattern, and ultimately, to heal. We cannot escape our need for relationships – it’s how we are wired, and it’s how we grow and evolve.
And there very well may be cycles where part of our healing is done in solitude, to develop our capacity for self-attunement and self-definition, but our growth will almost always inevitably lead us back to connection with others.
Second, this insight led me to rediscovering the joy of deep romantic love, partnership, and sexuality – things that I had more or less shut myself off from over the past several years, due to guilt and shame, and out of fear of repeating mistakes that I had made in past relationships. Re-entering back into romantic love and partnership has been a very embodied process of self-forgiveness for me.
And third, I realized that our collective healing is predicated on us learning how to become more and more attuned to one another – psychically, telepathically, and emotionally.
Our species is slowly learning to function together as one higher organism, guided and directed by one higher Universal Mind (God/Spirit/Source). This process will obviously take a very long time, but none-the-less, we are in the preliminary stages of this, which is why there is a spiking interest in psychic ability, intuition, and things of this nature.
So, there are many layers behind this insight for me.
From healing the nervous system, to rekindling the joy of romantic love, and to understanding layers of our own collective healing and evolution.
And for context, the seed of this insight came to me in a very intense way during a plant medicine ceremony in South America last year.
During one of the nights of ceremony, as I was on the medicine, I began to enter into a very deep visionary experience.
During this experience, I could feel layers of my psyche begin to break down as floods of deep ancestral and collective pain, abuse, torment, isolation, guilt, and fear erupted and breached the surface of my awareness, and I started to drown in an ocean of shame as my ego struggled to process the immensity of trauma that rose to the surface.
I was absolutely horrified, as my capacity was stretched to its max of what I was capable of facing within myself.
As I struggled to process these layers of ancestral and collective trauma, I noticed my ego trying to hold onto itself through wrapping its sense of “I” around the trauma that was violently flooding my conscious awareness. This created an internal environment of deep guilt and shame that I desperately wanted to escape from.
But I couldn’t escape from it.
The more I tried to internally run from it, the more intense and exaggerated it became.
So I had to face it.
I faced it, not because I was necessarily courageous, but because there was literally nowhere to run.
And as I faced it, this became the death of my old self.
This was the dismantling of my old coping strategies, governing my nervous system and my unconscious responses to life.
What was occurring felt almost surgical.
As my ego was being dismantled through reaching its capacity of what it could handle, I called out to God.
“God, please, this is way too much for me to hold on my own. Please God, where are you? What do I do with all of this?”
And in response to my call, I heard:
“Together, we heal.”
And this statement echoed like a gentle angelic chorus sweeping through my awareness, cleansing my internal landscape, like a soft rain falling upon the violent fires of a burning forest.
“Together, we heal.”
“We were never meant to do this alone. All of the suffering, the trauma, the abuse – it all comes from a deep sense of isolation. Feeling separate and unsupported. Feeling cut off from one another, and from the rest of life. Healing is found through coming together.
Accepting that you are never alone, in anything that you are facing, no matter what it is – this is what will free you from shame. And this is what will heal you.
And as you free yourself, everyone is freed with you, and thus the world is made new.
And the entire evolution and development of humanity is predicated on this process.
All healing, and all forgiveness, are found in our fundamental togetherness.
You are never alone.
And in this, you will find God.”
As this was conveyed to me, I could see the face of the Universal Christ shining from behind the veils of separation that were underlying all the various forms of trauma and abuse.
Together we are healed.
And together we are set free.
This realization has been seeded deep within the soils of my soul, and it has been slowly and mysteriously breaking through, and transforming, every layer of my being – somatically, psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually.
It has washed over me, like baptismal waters, ushering me into a completely new paradigm of self.
And so the integration of this has been my biggest growth edge.
And as this insight has been slowly blossoming in my life, I have entered into a committed partnership, for the first time in almost 5 years.
And in the depth of what only romantic love can offer, I am humbly reminded that we are so limited in what we are able to heal on our own. And this, in and of itself, has been incredibly paradigm shattering for me.
And so this piece emerged from within me, as I processed the integration of this insight, and through my own healing journey.
As I painted this piece, a soft and gentle voice within my awareness spoke to me, guiding every single brush stroke that was made.
So for me, this piece literally becomes a statement of how we are never alone, and how we are supported and guided through every single step of our lives, by something so much greater than anything that our egos could ever comprehend.
And so I offer this piece up to God.
And I offer this piece up to you.
Knowing that we are never alone in anything that we are facing.
And as sunlight shines through stained glass, we are unified by a single source, which animates and enlivens our unique and corky individuated expressions.
And we are One, always and forever.
Together we are whole.
Together we are strong.
And together, we heal.
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