Aaah, sooo much here in this post, @exoexplorer ! In response to your Q in the top of the post, I see even some of your poses in the sand shapes - a kneeling figure leaning back above your legs, and a diving woman flying into the back of your heart... There's a great deal of inquiry in this post, and work in the images: so many topics to unravel and play with... I love this about your Art; looking always for the new - and playing-working always from an expanding Whole. I paint like this too: finding the newness in every moment - not the stroke I want to make, or think to make, but what Naturally comes into being from I-as-integral-feeling-part-of-All-As-One...