Saturday, August 23, 2008

painting the stool

Any artistic vision begins with thought. You see a canvas, a piece paper or clay, an object, and the thought processes the vision. I see this color, texture, shape, line or form. blam. Then my hands extend from the thought to creation. The imagined becomes reality.

This birthing stool i’m painting for a friend; I just followed my instinct. She picked the base color indigo, which to me is the color of Africa. so i thought my way around that; African women / mothers, African mystical roots. I researched some Nigerian motifs with 7 (the cipher / soul, divine number). The legs of the stool I thought to paint in bands of three. Why three? and so, read on....

The third dimension - we do things in threes so they will manifest in our physical realm.

It's roots stem from the meaning of multiplicity. Creative power; growth. Three is a moving forward of energy, overcoming duality, expression, manifestation and synthesis. Three is the first number to which the meaning "all" was given. It is The Triad, being the number of the whole as it contains the beginning, a middle and an end.

The power of three is universal and is the tripartide nature of the world as heaven, earth, and waters. It is human as body, soul and spirit. Notice the distinction that soul and spirit are not the same. They are not. Three is birth, life, death. It is the beginning, middle and end. Three is a complete cycle unto itself. It is past, present, future.

The symbol of three is the triangle. Three interwoven circles or triangles can represent the indissoluble unity of the three persons of the trinity. Others symbols using three are: trident, fleur-de-lis, trefoil, trisula, thunderbolt, and trigrams.

The astral or emotional body stays connected to the physically body for three days after death. There is scientific evidence that the brain, even when all other systems are failing takes three days to register complete shutdown.

There are 3 phases to the moon. Lunar animals are often depicted as 3 legged.

Three is the heavenly number, representing soul, as four represents body. Together the two equal seven (3+4=7 ) and form the sacred hebdomad. The 3x4=12 representing the signs of the Zodiac and months of the year.

Pythagorean three means completion.

In folklore there are three wishes, genies have three wishes, three leprecons, three prince or princesses, three witches, three sisters among others.

sis hawk

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

thought

10 manifestations
1. work that is not stressful
2. leaving cali
3. living in italy or france
4. living as an artist
5. happiness
6. self-discipline and contentment
7. take my time
8. be blessed
9. be calm
10. listen