Lady Of The Sacred Spirals

This afternoon I worked on a mixed media piece which has been hanging around for awhile waiting for me to finish it. The inspiration for this work came to me while listening to a CD by Sophia. I was listening to her sing ‘Gaia Shekhinah Nama Om’ at the time.

I kept playing the CD over and over again and as the music flowed over and through me, I created this painting. I sculpted the mask  and the feathers out of paper mache,  plaster and heavy acrylic medium.

Lady of the Sacred Spirals – Mixed Media – 22 X 28 inches on canvas

In Judaism, Chokhmah appears alongside the Shekhinah, ‘the glory of God’, a figure who plays a key role in the cosmology of the Kabbalists as an expression of the feminine aspect of God.

Autumn Offerings

I found this old digital collage I did in the fall of 2005 when I was in the process of learning how to make my own digital backgrounds etc…

I had forgotten how much fun these were to make. I created the background by layering rice  paper, golden acrylics with mica chips and then scanned the end product into Photoshop.

Next, I used Painter 7 to create the Goddess image and the background spirals. I finished by adding text around the border.

The text reads: “Earthly Offerings: a stone, a feather, a flower, a sea shell, a rainbow, a butterfly’s kiss. Sisters of my heart, I weave a cloak for you, for we are on a journey to remember that we are spirit in body.

Autumn Offerings – Digital Collage – 9 X 10 inches

Gratitude

Today I am grateful for all the special people who have touched my life, especially my family and friends. We laugh and cry together and with them I feel I belong and am loved.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

It turns what we have into enough,

and more.

It turns denial into acceptance,

chaos to order,

confusion to clarity.

It can turn a meal into a feast,

a house into a home,

a stranger into a friend.

Gratitude makes sense of our past,

brings peace for today,

and creates a vision for tomorrow.-

-Melody Beattie

Art Museum trip

Yesterday was our first visit to the new de Young museum since one about a year or two before the closing of the old one. We had lunch and ended our visit with a trip to the tower with it’s incredible panoramic view of San Francisco.

We loved the New Guinea collection! There are over 400 examples of New Guinea art to feast your eyes upon.

Below are some photos of the Art of the Americas collection which included examples of Mesoamerican and Andean cultures.

Maya Stela

View from the tower

Wild Day In The City

It was a beautiful sunshiny day in San Francisco as we headed out early this morning to visit The de Young Museum. It took us several hours to see all the exhibits and we were exhausted by the time we got home.

We took lots of photographs and I will post some of them tomorrow. It’s late and with all the days excitement I am very tired so off to bed I go!