This book represents the human cycle of passionate love in which love, attraction and passion, enters the body through the eye, enters the bloodstream, DNA, and as time goes through daily living, it encircles the heart with thorns of pain eventually leading to a broken heart and self-immolation; the anima sola in purgatory. ( I love Joan of Arc). This is not the end of this cycle. The true end is entering the cosmic cauldron of rebirth of self, healing and resurrecting oneself as a phoenix. This was a stream of consciousness project and after I found that the calla lily is the only flower used both in weddings and funerals. The lovestream passes through both stages (birth and death of love) and ultimately reverts back to the "I", the self but a wiser, higher healed self. It is the story of when I becomes we and the "we" cycles back to "me." It is the journey from the human self to the cosmic self. This is mixed media using pantone pens, gel pens, acrylic paint, permanent marker, glitter, and inks. |
