Susan Cohen Thompson art from Amazon Jungle journey

In October 1998, I took a journey deep into the Amazon Jungle and high into the Andes in Ecuador. I visited the Amazon again in March, 2002. Both journeys made a profound and lasting impression on me. I continue to work on paintings that relate to my experiences in the rain forest. Meeting and spending time with the people in the rain forest has changed my perspective on life in the United States and has affected my ideas about my relationship with nature, other cultures, who I am and what my art is about. This continues to be a rich source of my most recent work. For more information about my journeys, look at my page on dream change.

Embraced By The Jungle 16" x 16" watercolor	Emerging from Jungle 16" x 16" watercolor	One with the Jungle 12" x 12" watercolor
Amazonian Caress I am guided into wild and tender places by strong and loving people and I notice something being in the jungle. Butterflies move in and out of buildings. All the animals move in and out. The floors, earthen. No windows, no doors to separate me from the jungle.	Shuar (detail) watercolor	Watching from the Garden 12"x12" watercolor
All is open, even the walls, loosely woven trees. Butterflies fly in and out of the Shamans home. A butterfly massages the skin on my arm where it lands. It accompanies me along my path in the jungle. It flies into my heart and caresses it, and flies out again. Relations 12"x12", watercolor	My Salt (Amazonian Caress) 22" x 30" watercolor	Butterfly watercolor 8"x 8"
The path through the jungle caresses my feet with its muddy embrace. The oxygen rich air enters my lungs and caresses them, then moves through all of me. The jungle chants to me and fills me with itself.	Connecting 20"x14". watercolor	Tree with Man 20"x 26" oil on canvas

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