Today, I have been busy uploading my collage’s and paintings to my art gallery page. I did it in a slide show form, so unfortunately the names, dimensions etc. aren’t included. I grew exasperated with WordPress and my need to precisely place each image and the titles. I may change this, with some practice. The artwork was created over the last ten years, maybe a little longer for a couple of them. Time is fleeting and only a construct of measurement to figure out where you are and how did I get from here to there? Cue Talking Heads-Stop Making Sense.
I finished Greensleeves Summer Solstice last weekend, signed it and added an acrylic medium finish over it this morning. I feel pretty pleased with it. Doing so, I came to the realization that it is a companion piece for Greensleeves Winter Solstice. I suppose I should do Greensleeves equinox artwork as well and complete the seasonal cycles. My mind is thinking about it, and so I am quite sure that I will commence as soon as I can get to the art store for another clay board.
Acrylic & Decorative paper on clay board 20″x 24″
Acrylic & Decorative paper on clay board 20″ x 24″
What direction are you going? Head for a life of meaning.
Be your own heroine or hero. Your personal story can a be viewed as a mythological journey into the depths of your being. A story in which you can win or fail. You are your own archetype.
We can cling to old narratives, dependency, inferiority, and deficit thinking; which can be so limiting, which will anchor us to ideas that don’t fit our personal paradigm. Faced with the liminality of not being able to see ahead, but knowing that you have to walk through the door, is daunting. But never the less you persist. This is the heroines journey.
I have been thinking about liminality lately. Nothing seems certain anymore. The path I was on, had become precarious, unpredictable, filled with frustration and anger. So much has changed, ended, and no longer holds true. The old ways are no longer viable. I find myself at the threshold, the curtains are drawn back but the light is dim and I cannot see the new path, yet I know with absolute certainty, I must walk upon it or die.
Sabian Symbol phase 230 (Scorpio 20 dg): A woman draws away two dark curtains closing the entrance to a sacred pathway. The deepest intuitions of the soul, a path to the mystics life is opened up once the darkness of fear, egocentricity and dualistic morality is removed. It reveals what a positive reliance upon faith and intuition can bring about. Courage is needed to go through the veiling darkness – the courage to venture beyond the familiar and the traditionally known, to plunge ahead into the unknown. ~ Dane Rudhyar, An Astrological Mandala
Sacred Spiral Design 