The Warm Embrace is an installation of a teepee made of natural elements alongside three paintings about the teepee’s anthropomorphic experiences. There is a dialogue between the teepee and the paintings that explores the relationship between my own childhood memories and spiritual mysteries. Painted interpretations of memories of warm Irish blankets, soft bunnies, deep cave adventures, and rocky coasts bring the teepee to life. What started, as a construction of a womblike meditation teepee, quickly became an act of transparency between what is animate and inanimate. While the paintings can be considered humorous displays of an imaginary population, the installation of the teepee itself lends to the realization that one is sitting inside a living object.