Mukta, Amarnath

I was born on March 17, 1985, and grew up in a country outskirt of Fairfield, Iowa. My parents, Mark and Alexandra Stimson, had moved there to be involved with the blossoming Transcendental Meditation community and start a family. Much of my immediate and extended family members are artists and meditators; this lifestyle is in my lineage and upbringing. I was educated alongside my siblings, Albert and Rae, through Fairfield's community of home scholars. At fifteen, I left the familiarity of Fairfield to study visual art at Interlochen Arts Academy, a boarding arts high school in Michigan for t...