My teacher is showing me to bring religion out into the world. When his birthday was coming up, I thought of painting him a present. The first idea I tried out didn’t work. He was in seated posture, bowing to the ocean. I like him in that pose a lot and I like to paint watercolors of the ocean. I did some that are pretty nice.  Then I got the idea to do a portrait of only his head against the ocean. I didn’t have to worry so much about the drawing, and the paintings seemed to make themselves. I tried a few of those and decided to give him one. “The Evolution of Consciousness” I titled the piece and signed it using India ink with a quill pen.