THE FEELING IS THE PRAYER COMMISSION OFFERING
My process, my style and my vision have all evolved in this way, at this time, for a reason. This is it.
MY PRAYER FOR YOU. I had the idea for this series while I was wrapping up the pieces for my SUBTLE MATTER show. As I painted the last marks and made the final color choices, I kept hearing the phrase “my prayer for you” in my mind. I was thinking that if I could translate crystal properties into paintings via morse code and intention, I could pretty much say anything through the process. I thought about little messages or prayers I’d want to send out and how I once heard Gregg Braden say that “the feeling is the prayer.” I learned of that phrase years ago and it still resonates. I could tell there was magic to it. The magic of truth.
THE FEELING IS THE PRAYER. It’s the concept that you can say something all you want but when you FEEL it, when there’s FEELING at the root of those words, that’s the energy that is sent out to the universe. That’s the message that’s received. It’s the intention, the internal energetic action of emotion that move us, ever so subtly, in the direction of our hopes and desires.
If you have a crystal, prayer, mantra, wish, personal affirmation or special message for a loved one you’d like translated into a painting via my process of intentional meditation, intuitive flow, reiki and Morse Code, I’d love to create a The Feeling is the Prayer custom painting for you. And if you would like evidence (like the book pictured above) of the creative process that brings your custom piece into being, read more about ways to Document the Process.
NEW WORK: THE PLANT MEDICINE SERIES
It’s a working title and multimedia experiments are in progress. The intention of the project is to create a biofeedback loop installation centered on plant medicine. This body of work includes painting, flower essences, digital collage, projection mapping, plant audio, neon and live plants. I’m sharing the results of my experiments along the way. Click below to check out the latest works in progress.
THE SUBTLE MATTER SERIES
My scientifically inspired, intuitive creative process explores the intersection of art, science and spirituality. Energy and movement, the essential elements of existence, are central to my work.
I paint this moving energy as the light of being, the chemistry of emotion and as coded information. I imagine energy fields in relationship on a quantum level, particularly at the boundaries and meeting places that birth change. I imagine the microcosm of our bodies, our cells, our psyches and how these inner spaces interface with the rest of existence.
The SUBTLE MATTER series continues this work via a collection of painted meditations on the healing properties of individual crystals. Referencing the Etheric or Subtle Body (the layer of energy just outside the physical body), the delicately complex range of human experience and emotion, and the physical crystals themselves, “Subtle Matter” celebrates the power of vibrational medicine and its ability to heal, recognizing that everything is simply energies in relationship.
What we physically relate to and bring into our energy field has a very real impact on our being whether we are conscious of it or not. Science shows us this is true. Tuning into the subtle energy of an object like a crystal, which has its own history and properties, is an exercise in expanding our awareness of this impact so we can then use it to make changes with intention as we move through our lives as part of the universe.
In this space between science and spirituality, the SUBTLE MATTER series encourages us to consider the physical reality of the effects of energies large and small, subtle and overt, on our mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. For this work, as in the previous series BOUNDARIES LOST AND FOUND, I use multiple layers of house paint to achieve a rich history of complex and fragmented information that combines to form a unique and whole “reality.” This “reality” changes when viewed from different distances and perspectives, lending the paintings a sense of being the living, pulsing, emanating fields I imagine them to be. This series however, is also encoded with information from the crystals. Each painting includes a coded repeating pattern of dashes making up the outermost ring that spreads to the edges. These Morse Code patterns communicate the stones properties (the titles are the codes)- and the intentional energy that I explored, held and often experienced myself while creating each piece.
Photos below from SUBTLE MATTER solo show at J. Rinehart Gallery, Seattle WA., 2020.
