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"Beloved Body, Sacred Animal" - mixed media on gallery wrapped canvas, 16" x 40" x 1.5". Ready to hang,
Counting down until Friday night, the opening reception for Blue Wild, a solo show featuring art and a book signing - and where am I? In the studio, painting.
I should be printing labels, buying wine and confirming all the last minute items. I might want to figure out what I'm wearing. Some might say I should sending out e-blasts and tweeting multiple times a day. But no, I am painting.
This piece, a paint over (remember Ivan, Stilted?) called to me in my dreams. It's a big piece for me, but this forest spirit wanted to be painted and who am I to refuse the muse? It all started with an article I read about being sensitive and loving our bodies.
And ok yes, I've read and heard that bit of wisdom before. But this particular piece described our bodies as a sacred animal, sent to serve us for our entire lives. As a sacred animal, it deserves a bit of awe, reverence and respect. I thought immediately of all the wisdom, spiritual connection and energy I feel from totem and spirit animals. Think of how you feel when you see a moose, a bear, a whale...that sense of hush and pause and wonder. That - that I believe is what the writer intended us to feel when thinking of our beloved bodies. And I hadn't thought of it that way before.
If I think of my body as a sacred animal....it changes everything. Imagining myself as a mystical horned creature in the deep woods of the pacific northwest, and I feel wise and strong and calm. I want to adorn my antlers with beads and feathers, paint symbols on my chest and run wild through thundering waterfalls and between towering trees. I hear the drums calling me.
Oh, and the phone. The painting done, I take one last look at the forest behind me and plunge into my to-do list.
Counting down until Friday night, the opening reception for Blue Wild, a solo show featuring art and a book signing - and where am I? In the studio, painting.
I should be printing labels, buying wine and confirming all the last minute items. I might want to figure out what I'm wearing. Some might say I should sending out e-blasts and tweeting multiple times a day. But no, I am painting.
This piece, a paint over (remember Ivan, Stilted?) called to me in my dreams. It's a big piece for me, but this forest spirit wanted to be painted and who am I to refuse the muse? It all started with an article I read about being sensitive and loving our bodies.
And ok yes, I've read and heard that bit of wisdom before. But this particular piece described our bodies as a sacred animal, sent to serve us for our entire lives. As a sacred animal, it deserves a bit of awe, reverence and respect. I thought immediately of all the wisdom, spiritual connection and energy I feel from totem and spirit animals. Think of how you feel when you see a moose, a bear, a whale...that sense of hush and pause and wonder. That - that I believe is what the writer intended us to feel when thinking of our beloved bodies. And I hadn't thought of it that way before.
If I think of my body as a sacred animal....it changes everything. Imagining myself as a mystical horned creature in the deep woods of the pacific northwest, and I feel wise and strong and calm. I want to adorn my antlers with beads and feathers, paint symbols on my chest and run wild through thundering waterfalls and between towering trees. I hear the drums calling me.
Oh, and the phone. The painting done, I take one last look at the forest behind me and plunge into my to-do list.
Blue Wild runs December 2 through December 29 at ArtServe. Opening reception and book signing on December 2 from 6-8 pm. Formal dress and antlers not required.
2 Comments
Art is not just the creativity of any artist it is the true feeling which can be seen through its art and creates the beautiful arts and the true artist is the one who are despite and honest in their work and creates the beautiful things through his artwork and it is not just simply a work which is done in the canvas as it seems to be beautiful as it is the efforts and the time taken by the artist to create it.
Thank you so much for your deliciously-worded comment! Absolutely beautiful and I do agree. :)
