COME Artwork

COME Come softened by compassion without denial urge or demand come with full heart empty of cunning mind come seeped in the philosophy of simplicity Come open handed offering abundance flowing from kind and gentle heart become this place never mapped or spoken of as this become source beyond measure Come drink the serenity More information about the artist, availability and purchase of works: Chambers Art Gallery Limited 241 Moorhouse Avenue Christchurch 8011 New Zealand +64 22 677 2810 https://chambersart.co.nz/works/photography/?artist=7722 This work is from ‘Imaginations of Divine Mother’ Series. Series notes: "Do you want deliverance from the bonds of the world? Then, weeping profusely, you will have to cry out from the bottom of your heart. Deliver me, Great Mother of the World, deliver me!" ~ Anandamayi Ma These words of Anandamayi Ma are living milk of the Mother, disturbing my complacency and stagnant idealisation of who she is or how she might appear. In reality I have no idea who 'Divine Mother' might be, or believe in any overarching deity, masculine or feminine. It seems beyond reason therefore, I have been drawn to depict awareness of known and unknown as a voluptuous woman. The Feminine, as a psychic force reaches far beyond biological sex, and thus cannot be wholly claimed by the female voice (tempting as this might be after centuries of inequality and abuse). 'Imaginations of Divine Mother' draws freely on an artistic interpretation of who the Divine Mother is, removed from any limited knowledge as to who she might be. It is a process of finding my way by moonlight before the sun has come up. A light so often pretended away and ignored because it exists as the most painful kind of hope there is, blurring desire and dream. What comes first the image or poetry? Neither really. Both are suspended in chaos, immersed in the mystery of who she is. Sometimes it is tears in the night, and then the light of day shines on the nourishment that only human warmth can provide. I fluctuate between both, giving neither preference.

Mixed Media:Digital on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:23.6 W x 17.7 H x 0.4 D in

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