Pulling Inside Out With Art:
"My Soul's Journey..." The Residue of the 6 Life-times of Experiences Which I Currently Hold in Conscious Awareness...
"My Soul's Journey", the artwork showcased on this final post, is the largest piece I've attempted to date (3 feet by 4 feet)... Its photo is farther down this page... These preliminary words just give what feels like a necessary introduction... Although it has since changed to a wall hanging, I talk about its beginning as "My Table Top" on an earlier post. Click here: March 28/15 Post to view my original post...
I've used scraps of pictures torn from several engagement calendars... Inner Reflections - Year 2000, Sierra Club - Years 2011 & 2012, Islands - Year 2006 and Audubon - Years 2004, 2005 & 2013... glued onto a background of paper maché then blended together with paint... I've displayed it as I'm currently hanging it, but it can hang from any of its four sides...
Although, when I began I had NO idea of what I was creating or why, it ends up being very much as I am inside... Inside me there are also MANY fragments of experiences, with a rainbow of emotional colors. which must be joined together with understanding... to create "me"... Self-creation is truly my LARGEST and MOST complex artwork... Although this inner artwork isn't very visible to anyone but me, "My Soul's Journey" does give a reasonable representation of what I work with inside to create me. It doesn't reflect though, the multi-layered, inter-woven complexity of my inner artwork... However, I find the pieces I notice or feel inspired to work with on outer art, which like "My Soul's Journey", is tied deeply to my inner art, usually speak strongly to something about my inner work... I therefore frequently work with both, inner and outer art, in tandem... Integrating and blending my life-times of experiences together, can take life-times, so I'll probably be working for a long time just blending the simpler, tiny scraps of pictures together to "complete" this more visible artwork – with paint in this case, but it's done enough to give you the idea...
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| My Soul's Journey - Art by Sylvia Kay |
The six pictures which follow are details of "My Soul's Journey", showing quotes by Paramahansa Yoganada which I've incorporated into the artwork... They are all from the Year 2000 Inner Reflections Calendar...
To the right: "What seems true to reason and sense perception is not always true in fact. The only sure way to know truth is to realize it intuitively..."
To the left: "Learn to stand alone, secure in your own virtues and self-worth..."
To the right: "There is no end to your consciousness; all things are glittering like stars in the firmament of your being..."
To the left: "The soul is ageless..."
To the right: "Most people imitate others. You should be original, and whatever you do, do well..."
To the left: "When the mind becomes still, you are in the kingdom of the Infinite..."
After spending more than twenty years traversing an inner terrain something like the one I've depicted in "My Soul's Journey", the picture below, which I've called "Spring Moon", expresses where I feel I am now...
It too incorporates many artistic influences... There are traces of the way I used to work with oil paints (influenced by Arthur Shilling, The Group of Seven, Van Gogh and Rembrandt) from when I first began doing art at age 15 until the year 2000 when life separated me from these paints. It also incorporates the intuitive, meditative work I've learned to do over the past seventeen years with acrylics and a new Japanese influence I've been wanting to incorporate... This last, most recent, influence is most evident in the overall design as well as in the Spring-time flavor of the apple blossoms and the prominent moon...
Although it isn't clearly visible in my photograph, the gold pieces on the outside all bend in toward the silvery grey and the moon... I seem to be very influenced by the moon's movements and frequently notice A LOT happening inside me, at the time of both full and new moons.... Maybe, as I've read, since the earth's waters are also influenced by the moon, we, being largely water are all equally subject to its influence...
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| Spring Moon - Art by Sylvia Kay |
I Hope You've Enjoyed these 7 Posts of My Art Exhibition....
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