Healing, Freedom, Love

Majority of my pieces have been profile facing women. This is the first piece that is frontal facing. I think it means that I am now starting to finally face myself. Or, I have actually started while ago. It is now just finally showing through. The Amharic writing above the hair (Ethiopian langauge) says "Healing, Freedom, Love. 

Art is beautiful because it is such a transparent practice. You can see the essence of a person through their paintings, or hear their essence in their music, feel it through their movements, or imagine it through their poetry in a painting formed by their words. In this piece I included the two chakras that I first started working on when I started back into spirituality and meditation again, the throat and heart chakra. I am soon going to be opening up a spirituality tab on my blog, where I will be sharing knowledge on multiple things such as meditation, chakras, energy, relationships, rituals, etc. 

Stay divine.

G

 

Sol, Sole, Soleil, Sonne, شمس , Soorya, Zon, Ilanga, ..Sun.

constantly pushing myself to try new things.. been dealing with a bit of an artist block lately. any suggestions // tips on fighting those? 

anyways.. I loved how this piece turned out.

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A Masked Culture

Ive been falling in love with masks. I grew up in a house where there was an African mask or painting on every wall you turned to, but this is my first time exploring with it in art. I've found that masks reoccur in various cultures-from Mexico's lucha libre's, to North American Iroquois tribes, to rituals in New Guinea, to American comic books.. Masks. Synonymous for hiding something is one way to look at it, but here's another.. Embodying something above yourself, embodying creativity, and culture. I've been working on a big project with inspiration from the African masks, but here's some practice work.

Randomness inspired me to use thread, I found a bag of it somewhere. 

3 layers- the mask, the the leaves, the city 

                                  

Been using lots of layers lately too now that I think about it.. Layers and masks. Wonder what that means.

G, peace.