Tiamat Cosmic Dancer

By the old legend there is a cosmic dancer.

Dancer is consuming energy in order to move,

Dancer takes all energy , she needs to move , if she

would stop dancing she would die. She is not bad or good,

she just must dance,

When she moves to another plane, she leaves empty space, vacuum behind her

In this vacuum, something new,something precious can arise.

Not so long ago I come across slow-motion photos of dancers. I was mesmerized, I had to think about those pictures all the time .                                      ,https://www.pinterest.com/pin/438819557413981077/

I could not push them out of my mind . Especially photographs of Sufi dancers radiated very strong energy . These images capture incredible energy, incredible power, spiritual wisdom and the moment of transcendental changes . We can feel very same power from religious dances of Native Indians, ritual dances performed by African or Aboriginal and many others .

When you can watch those dancers from close distance, you are taken to the vortex of this strong cosmic energy.

Those slow motion images have been in my mind for sometime, they have been coming back during my mediation and I had to transform my feeling , my thoughts in the language of strings.My effort was to capture the movement, which also
its point of rest. Stopped in the whirl of flickering, this resting position is invisible to the human eye, we are not capable to notice it, yet in a hectic dance full of emotion and savagery we find a moment of sacred peace, which sows the seed of new creation.
Tiamat is the Sumerian goddess, the mother of God, the mother of all creation.
Very seldom I would use such a strong contrast like red, black and yellow color . This time I chose this combination, for me it is a combination of joy, strength, new birth, but also a symbol of the mystery of the ancient Maya, Aztecs and the original population of Australia. All of them are united by a similar legend about our creation. When I close my eyes I imagine how Tiamat danced through the cosmic plane, with powerful blows from her wings,stupefying breath, breathed life into her imagination and created beauty and pain at the same time. Tiamat created life .
Every artist has its own way how to express his / her , feelings , emotions, philosophy . For me colorful threads are helping me to reflect mine inner world.

Desert Rose

Desert Rose

 Inspiration for this lace I found in Cappadocia, magnificent rock

formation in Turkey . Since I was 16 I wanted to visit Cappadocia.

I learned about this corner of the world in the history of art

class and I was taken by its beauty , its mystery.I was studying  travel, historical and art books

about this

place and dreamed that once I will travel there

I dreamed about going there, touching, seeing and

inhaling the energy of this place .

Last year, when husband and I were wondering where we were

going this time, Stan said."Why not Capadocia?"

Coming here was like arriving to different planet, rock

formations with emmental look, it looked like each of the rock

was telling different story had its own life , its own story

The landscape has surpassed all my expectations and it is really

impossible to describe its beauty and atmosphere with words.

How to describe something that seems unreal,
emmental-like rocks,dust, the smell of desert grass,
the subtle shades of color that changes
every hour of the day. How to describe this
experience into imperfect words?

After all, even the best photograph will not capture the energy of
this place. We spent over a week in Goreme ( tourist center of Cappadocia).
We have been lucky, we could  sleep in a rock hotel,
our room was hollowed out in a rock. It was a very unusual
experience.
How people have lived here in earlier history; these hard
conditions, harsh winters, extremely hot summers,and incredibly strong
spiritual energy which radiates from nature here.
What were their lives, their stories? All this  you can
hear when you listen quietly , it is inscribed in this region.

How else could I convey my feelings, my experience, different
way than by weaving it into lace?

I chose the red tones because they best correspond to the energy
of Cappadocia. My intention was to capture the intersection
of spaces, 

The Desert Rose Lace is a reflection of all my feelings,
experiences and my spiritual knowledge of this mystical
landscape.

Silence of Consciousness

Everybody who knows me , knows how much I love to travel . Traveling is not just brightening my horizonts but also during my travels I am finding inspiration for my art work . I could say that all my artwork is reflexion on my travel .

8 years ago my husband and I discovered beauty of Vietnam . For me Vietnam is not natural beauty , but also I found purity in Vietnamese people . I always love to return there.

It is a very special place with deep spiritual energy . It is fantastic place for meditation . I love to swim during sunrise and sunset and  to watch changing colors of the sky and the sea at those moments . Those moments are very magical in spiritual sense .Mind can flow to the different world , it is very quiet moment , and in this moment I can feel strong connection to my inner self . In a sense I feel home here . This is my little paradise . I am finding here my inner balance , I feel my spiritual guidance .It is place like no other.  Still not polluted with big hotels chains and still has local character and charm . But I am afraid this is changing rapidly .One day we went for snorkeling . Have you ever tried that ? Is in it fantastic ?  World under the water has its own dimension.  It looks like underwater world has its own time , you sink in the deep silence . Did you ever watch corals ? They are alive, they are moving , they have so many colors . Fish living in this fantastic world are also so  colorful . And here I found inspiration for my lace Silence of Consciousness. Inspired by the colors which I saw around the corals I choose bluish green and yellow.For contrast my choice was black. I started to make drawings for actual lace  I wanted to capture beauty of corals, their lighthes a vibrant energy . I started to work first with yellow and black colors I wanted to get feeling of joy , lightness and then I continued with other colors combination.

 This time I had supervisor nd very useful helper. This is why it took so long to finish this piece . .   . 

Many people are traveling to India for spiritual enlightening . For me is Vietnam my spiritual place.  I have found  my inner guidance here . Every year we spend time in Phu Quoc, tropical island south of Sai Gon .