To know love is to be a medium, to draw in and receive the often difficult, often rejected and conflicted of life, and reveal with your body as instrument, as the beauty and value of the otherwise overlooked or discarded.
Pain and conflict are the well that is drawn from in order to reconcile through beauty the elements of life. In order to take in and give meaning to what would otherwise be meaningless suffering.
This art is a kind of sacred digestion—the dance of play and shadows. We take in the refuse and convert it into illumination.