Howl’s “Altare de Asana Tantra” series is comprised of large-scale, mixed-media paintings. The artist says that she has “always been intrigued with ancient civilizations, traditions, stories, rituals, history, etc. So, for this series, I integrated repeated imagery of erotic Hindu bas-reliefs on the Khajuraho Temple in India. I had always wanted to create a consistent series of pieces with a theme, as all of my other paintings are unique and one of a kind. Each piece in this series is unique, however it has elements that bind it together as a collection.” Howl adds that she didn’t understand how profound the series was to her personally “until I had all the pieces hanging together on my studio wall and I realized the large central ground figure in each piece is not a distorted X, rather it represents an intersection; the ‘intersection’ where a 2007 car accident dramatically changed my life. I broke out into tears and cried for over an hour upon that realization. I had never seen this during the creation process of these pieces which took place over a period of a year or so.”