About this Product
Shakti and Shiva
light and fire, wet and water,
just like this, always.
In some forms of Tantric philosophy, Shiva (consciousness) and Shakti (action/matter) interpenetrate each other. One of my favorite images is of Ardhanarishwara captures Shiva as male on one side, and female on the other. If I translate this into my life, it means I can marvel in all my senses, play over things in my memory, dream, and create and think. This is the goddess Shakti. Yet beneath it all, awareness IS (Shiva in this particular case, but not the Shiva of blue skin in the Himalayas). This picture features the Sanskrit for the pair, and the art plays with the way they dance together always. (Yes, I'm a comparative religion geek. :-)
Who in your life might be needing to look more deeply into the heart of reality?
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Meet the Maker
Kayle Rice:
I was never very creative as I was growing up and as an adult I couldn't draw a straight line with a ruler. Imagine my surprise when "artist" popped up as #1 on a career aptitude test! The guanlet was thrown! Over the years I've played with many mediums and being a slap-dash kind of gal, collage has become a favorite. I love using pan pastels, stencils, collage papers and my top favorite: "rusty bits", found pieces of rust. I try to complete each piece with a line from the Buddhist Metta Prayer of Loving Kindness. It's important to me that each piece I create has the spiritual imbued into it.
May you be at peace.
Kim Nunneley:
There is a place my mind goes when "creating". The messy words quiet, yet I continue to express something sometime too difficult to verbally share. One morning, music may whisk me along a brayer-rolled Gelli Plate, while on another day, I painstakingly do fine detailed inkwork to the sound of the lake washing up against the dam near my home. My favorite media is always the next one, my favorite art, the discovery of misty edges emerging and coming into being, laughing. I stand in witness to the loves of my life--horses, flowers, trees, mandalas, wild colors and formal line--all at play in endless combinations. Is this not prayer? Is this not grace?
Blessings, abundant and fresh, to you.
How it’s Made
As an evening meditation practice, I sit down with pens, colored pencils, metallic inks and other fun things. I create an image and then photograph it. It's printed on high quality photo paper and attached to a blank 5-7" greeting card. The finished product is then slipped into a plastic sleeve for safety and to prep it for shipping to....you?
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