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Eagles, Butterflies and Flowers teach us to transform the emotions and events that sometimes make us feel like caterpillars... As a gift, a fairy tale that I wrote and illustrated a few years ago, for all children (even grown-up ones) who already know or still don't know they have wings... You can download it for free at the end of the article!
A reflection on the long periods of creative incubation, often experienced with a heavy heart by many artists; once again, this heaviness found relief through the creative process itself, which gave life to a collage. My hope is that the words and the Soul-Image that inspired them will be of relief to you too.
This article continues my inquiry into the deeper meaning of Art as a Portal to the Numinous. Drawing from Kashmiri ลaivism, Jung, and contemporary spiritual teachers/artists like Igor Kufayev and Rupert Spira, I explore how True Art transcends time, space and identity. Through Art, our Heart becomes the sacred place where the ecstatic Essence of our true Being and the Source of Consciousness enter into mutual resonance, offering a taste of Peace and Wonder.
This series gathers several works that, in my feeling, share a common underlying theme โ the INVITATION โ expressed in various tones. I named this series Inner Temple because the primary invitation is to enter within oneself. Along the way, I discovered that it could also allude to an inner circular path, where the beginning and the end coincide.
With the help of six Soul-Images which represent the Grail, this article is an invitation to cross a mysterious inner Threshold; it opens onto a space where the boundary between self and experience becomes blurred, diaphanous, allowing for a quiet and powerful Presence. Here the Sacred Feminine and the Sacred Masculine meet.
Link to the video, and a collection of pictures and the description of my four 2023 artworks, which form a series inspired by the Taoist poetic concept of Li (็), the mysterious thread that beautifully connects all living things.
Indeed, it seems that we are living in a dark and challenging era. However, there are signs of an impending rebirth: the ancient oracle book called Yi Jing (I Ching) perhaps illustrates it in three of its sixty-four hexagrams. This is a reflection stemming from two of my Soul-Images...
What helps us feel and live better, knowing we are unique or running after perfection? I leave the arduous sentence to posterity! ๐
This article of mine deals with a very uncomfortable topic: pain. I felt the urge to write, perhaps to exorcise it, to help myself and/or someone else. There is too much pain in the world now, around us. It has always been there, but now it is visible to everyone, forcefully reaching each one of us through all the media. However, the law of the Dao teaches us that when we are at the peak of something, we are close to a reversal...
Many of us are suffering from a strange form of anxiety at this moment. What if it were the symptom of an ongoing metamorphosis? The courgettes know it. We can remember it too.
Sparks of Wonder 