I was attracted at first by the complexity of what is invisible to a ‘normal’ way of seeing, moved by Australian aborigine seed ‘dreaming’ paintings, the intuitive ‘vision’ the aborigine body has of nature’s inner life that corresponds so amazingly with what I see under a microscope. That inner life is made colourful and tactile by painting it.
Then I discovered that the mustard seed is a metaphor in Bahai, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Taoism for something miraculous: how something small can grow into something large and flourishing, a piece of unifying wisdom for a broken time.
This piece will be showing and available from June 29, 2012 at the CHP Arts exhibit, “Promise”.
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