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Homecoming

This piece is an expression of the return of soul to the body and ego to the Self. It is an expression of the journey of returning to the authentic self. This process of individuation happens when we begin to question external authority, our conditioning and habits and separate out from the collective. Sometimes this is difficult, because the false self that we created in response to all the painful and traumatic experiences in our lives has kept us safe and protected us from harm and we don’t want to let it go. The process of becoming our true and real self requires us to challenge the status quo and face our unintegrated aspects like the shadow in us. The shadow contains light as well as dark aspects of our nature, which, for whatever reason, went underground early on in our development and which, when integrated, release more of our potential and allow us to express more of who we are. The gold in the painting represents the fruits of this alchemical process of individuation. The journey of recovering and expressing the whole and true and real self is like an excavation project of digging for gold. The gold is in us and the digging for gold is the journey of self-discovery and recovery which returns the fragmented, lost or buried parts of ourselves to ourselves and allows us to express more of who we are and more of our creative potential. This feels like a homecoming because we are returning ourselves to ourselves and to wholeness so we can flow once again with life.

Sideways into the Light

This piece is an expression of the moment you finally decide to stop what you have been doing and to stop what you have becoming while you do it and turn sideways into the light. This means that you decide to choose a different path from the one that was chosen for you. It is a path you make by making and a path you choose by choosing. It involves radical acceptance and embracing what is, and listening deeply to what life is wanting from you rather than what you are wanting from life. It is a turning towards the unknown and trusting the flow of life to bring you what you need. It is a place of deep rest and acknowledgement of something other than you that supports and nourishes you. It is a deep knowing, connected to the generative and evolutionary impulse of life. It could be described as the Deep Self, the undivided wholeness that is the essence of all life. It is a place of surrender to something greater than the ego could produce. It is a joyful return to being who you are and a recognition of the value of this being. In this space you learn to value your time and presence and every moment as precious and you learn the art of living joyfully in the moment. You learn when to say yes and when to say no and you learn when to move towards something and when to gracefully and quietly walk away. It is a space of awakening to what is true and real and it gives you the opportunity to create and birth something new, something that is a creative expression of what is within you.

Infinity hourglass

This piece is an expression of life as a journey of continuous transformation, informed by an invisible and indivisible intelligence that is constantly evolving life. Sometimes we are spiraling in to recover lost aspects, other times we are spiraling out to grow and evolve and express what is in us, and sometimes we are stuck on repeat and it is difficult to move forward. The title reminds me of a William Blake poem, in which Blake suggests that it is possible to experience the world in a grain of sand, heaven in a wild flower and eternity in an hour. Life is a continuous unfolding of moments, moment by moment, and if we slow down enough to fully experience the moment, the present, or the NOW, as it has been referred to in spiritual teachings, we encounter with a sense of awe the magnificence and wonder present in the unfolding moment. In the moment, we encounter the true nature of reality as undivided wholeness and this puts us in touch with the creative force that informs all life. This also allows us to experience the world in a grain of sand or eternity in an hour, represented by the shape of the hourglass. This movement and awareness takes us out of the linear and material perspective of reality and into the awareness of time as a sphere and reality as waves of continuously moving energy. Most of us believe that we and world are made up of physical matter or atoms and material objects we can see- and that’s partly true because on a physical level you are made up of cells.

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Soulfulness Art

©Soulfulness

Homecoming

Sideways into the Light

Infinity hourglass

Soulfulness Poems

©Soulfulness

“And so long as you haven’t experienced this: to die and so to grow,

you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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