the process of creating is an expression of my power as a human being. making something out of nothing is nothing
short of magic. my spiritual practice
has come to involve ritual as a way of bridging my inner worlds with the
physical world, which then allows me to imbue my everyday activity with
meaning.
once my
life came to a standstill. i could not
find meaning in my existence and in the routines i used to punctuate my
days. instead of feeling nothing, i
felt too much and it overwhelmed me. i
was not taught how to there was no way to channel the intensity of feeling,
away from me, through me, somewhere it would not have a destructive impact on
my surroundings, other people or myself. i turned to art as a way of
channeling. later it became an avenue for healing, self-reflection and
self-discovery.
these
days images carry with them meanings that have already been assigned by
institutions, groups, ...i absorb so many images in my day-today life that it
becomes a practice in itself to distill from the images i create my personal
meanings, the magic that brings me joy or pierces my heart.
as the
world becomes more heavily populated. as technology allows individuals to
gather information with lightning speed, the edges of separation between
cultures, teachings, begin to blur, do we fight to delineate or do we allow the
components to blend into mist? in painting i outline shapes in dark hues,
perhaps a way to distinguish their solidity, while at the same time their
smallness and repetition causes them to become part of a unified field.
as
quantum physics begins to reveal proof of the interconnection between all
things, of the ability to remember both the past and the future, to see the
unseen and feel the emotions of others within our own bodies, is start to
explore my process as a way of deciding what i want to keep distinguished and
succinct and what i want to permeate the boundaries of understanding. while my own experience is porous, i still claim
the power to be the gatekeeper of my own borders.
for me
the magic of shamans, healers, psychics and time travelers is available to us
all. in meditation i can command my
mind to "be still." what is really happening is that i am deciding to
open to the field of consciousness, the Source of everything in which there are
no separations. when the gates close,
my thoughts echo off the walls.
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