This year, every yoga practice, permaculture principle, friendship, lesson learned, seed planted, ethic formed, prayer made, money saved and life decision has come into play. And what’s even more confronting is that every single person on this planet is going through it at the same time.
I haven’t quite known how to capture this year. Until a moment recently when I sat in meditation and saw the whole structure collapse.
I saw the political structure for what it is, a scaffolding holding up a collapsing system. I saw my fears and hopes for what they are, fleeting thoughts and emotions. I saw it all just fall apart and in its place were shapes and colours that I attempted to put down in this small painting.
Painting it helped me a lot. It calmed my thoughts and gave me focus. It gave me a map forward. I have used sacred geometry in the past to work with Yantas but this piece had a free-form landscape which sat in connection with the unseen structures of our universe that I enjoyed watching unravel.
We live on the surface of an earth, and are constantly pulled into it by gravity. Every physical form holds at its centre that connection. Its easy to get esoteric about the notion of union, but just very simply, by feeling the force of gravity on your body and remembering that every object, person and particle shares the affect of that force, there is nothing else to do. Relax. You are not alone. I hope this year has been kind on you.
‘Collapse and Create’ is available on Etsy and if you would like a similar piece commissioned with a meditation contact me here.
Music by http://www.bensounds.com
Soil to Stars 