Sancti Terra Bellum 48×48 Acrylic and Gold on Canvas
All land is Holy Land.
When we create war with one another, create war with the land, try to divide it into territories, we diminish the sanctity of our lives as well as the sacred land upon which we exist.
Animus Rising • 48×36 • Acrylic on Canvas
Textured with black emerging from the void as a powerful, masculine red attempts to dominate the canvas, barely contained by the clarity and understanding of white.
Within each woman is the animus or masculine, just as each man has an anima or feminine aspect within him.
This painting expresses the conflict and masculine aggression that can occur when a woman struggles to bring her animus into balance so that her feminine nature can thrive.
Maslow’s Mesa • 60×48 • Acrylic and Gold on Canvas
Self Actualization may come in steps, but is there really an hierarchy?
Maybe we experience elements of “Self” Actualization intermittently, even if we are hungry or we feel alone.
36×36 Acrylic and Gold on Canvas
36x36Acrylic and Gold on Canvas
Los Angeles, California: A city of Creativity (gold) attempting to manuever it’s way through the grids of complicated, somewhat chaotic, pathways.
The heat, the lights, the random paths, the intensity, all combine to call out to the creative individual around the edges. Yet, so many are left on the fringes. Once the gold does penetrate the grid, it tends to conform to the path of chaos. The purity of the gold can become diluted or it can stand out from the rest of the colors when it adheres to it’s origianl path without becoming consumed.
Followers 72×60 Acrylic and Gold on Canvas
Twelve entities walking in a gray fog. Their minds are closing as they follow, leaving less and less room for enlightenment which is represented by the gold.
This painting is layered over a realistic religious painting; Beneath the abstract is a portrait of Christ carrying the cross as Simon stands by. The twelve disciples are the ultimate followers, receiving knowledge from an authority outside themselves. The followers I have depicted here pertain to the notion of responsibility in maintaining an open mind and diligent awareness as we learn to trust our own inner authority.
Meeting of the Minds 36×36 Acrylic and Gold on Canvas
When people, from different paths, unite in agreement, in thought, in understanding, a spark ignites in the mind. That spark can turn into a blaze when it finds the heart, where it can grow into action .
13th Observer
60×48 Acrylic and Gold on Canvas
The capacity to observe life and Humanity, objectively, from a perspective outside the Self or one’s participation in environment and tribe is truly a challenge.
Some believe it is impossible because we are subjective beings.
Some believe we are limited to our physical experience in our observations and therefore can never truly experience objective truth about our existence.
Perhaps consciousness consists of etheric optic nerves which are invisible to us through our limited vision.
Perhaps these nerves are extending outward in each of us, reaching toward one another to create a unified view while the larger part of ourselves oversees the process?
Asleep Upon Arrival 36×36 mixed medium on canvas
Through the blurry eyes of the nearly awake, one can see a closing door.
As a society we have been asleep while so many things have entered and changed the very nature of what we are as a collective.
With our eyes barely open, we have focused our attention on the propaganda and illusions brought to us by those with a deceitful agenda.
Unfamiliar faces enter at the upper right of the canvas and rewrite history as we rub our blurry eyes and squint at the truth.
Pollinating Period (Blue Moon) 36×48 Acrylic and Gold on Canvas
As a woman approaches the middle of her life, the opportunities to birth a child, or create progeny, become fewer and fewer until those opportunities are as rare as a blue moon.
This abstract expansion is layered over an image of an egg, layered over a baby chick, representing the evolution from the Spring of maidenhood to the colors of a woman in Autumn.
The falling spray of potential pollination, during that fading blue moon, falls softly into acceptance and movement into another beautiful phase of womanhood —in which she is free to cultivate other seeds of creation through wisdom.
Significance of Man
40×30 Acrylic and Gold on Canvas
To know we exist, we reflect upon that which is beyond us as something that resides within us. We aspire to be larger than that which we are, yet we contain our existence, we restrain our existence within the structures we create as a society.
Few truly reflect from their being, that which is higher than self. Only three (the number of creativity) lower squares reflect the higher circle.
Lea Kelley 