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tide#10. the shadow Painting

Marina Ichikawa

Austria

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 28.7 W x 23.6 H x 0.8 D in

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In this painting I wanted to experiment with safran - to add safran to water and acrylic coulours and see what happens, find out how safran can express on the canvas. I even poured safran water over the picture and watched the flow. I mixed dissolved safran with other colours, I wanted to see what kind of colours shades and structures that would create. At some point I felt a forceful, vital energy emerging, to summarize everything which had happened in this painting... I felt fear, the risk of ruining everything, my own criticism and self-doubt coming up... but then the curiosity of uncertainty took over. It expressed as a symbol, which for me seems like the expression of my own shadow self. I was surprised and I felt uneasy. I wanted to work over it, I slept over it, I started to prepare colours, brushes, pastels.... but I was unable to add something. So here is stands, my shadow-self. Maybe the viewer can follow the process of this creation and likes the idea. Maybe it can trigger something like "perfection does not exist" or "it is always worth trying"... or whatever else. Or maybe the symbol speaks to somebody.

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Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:28.7 W x 23.6 H x 0.8 D in

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My current life started in Vienna, Austria, in a multi-cultural environment which provided for me a perfect ground for refining a diversity of interests. Through my PhD thesis in marine biology I could give scientific sense to my ecosystem vision, my post-grad study in Japan introduced me into east-asian culture, the many years of martial arts training guided me to integrate asian philosophy into my life, my work with indigenous people in Siberia made me recognise the interconnectedness of all and made me understand that we are all one. Out of this professional framework i started to get interested in the role and the dynamics of vital energy which ultimately lead me into the holistic healing arena. Out of my martial arts background, my love for body work and movement, my scientific basis in the organisation and functioning of life, my link to Japan, my compassion for the suffering of beings and my vocation for healing I undertook my shiatsu training in Bristol, UK. Apart from workshops with my calligraphy teacher Kaz Tanahashi, with the sculptress Martine Vaugel and recent online teachers like the psychologist and artist Nancy Hillis I am an auto-didact. I like to experiment with different media and materials. Recent development: I studied at the prestigous Art University of Toulon from 2018 to 2019. healingarts - calligraphy: My calligraphies are inspired by nature, healing experiences and my own life. The calligraphies are one-stroke brushworks which are fuelled by my respiration and my emotions. For me it feels like a dance. The movement of the brush originates somewhere in space, long before it touches the paper and it continues its movement after the visible end of the character. healingarts - paintings: Inspired by the teachings of C.G.Jung, the mysteries of alchemy and the miracle of the moment my paintings try to visualise whatever urges for expression. Often they originate in dreams or in emotional states. They are fuelled by curiosity and playfulness, I dare to take risks, they help me to question myself and the world around me. healingarts - sculptures: Working in clay for me means touching the Earth, which is my home, my base, my nourishment, the centre, the hearth, the place symbolising birth and death, origin and decay – thus embodying both past and future.

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