Redefining The Future #7

These are matching trees except for the fruit that they reap. I used the words on the page as inspiration. The roots of the tree on the left connect to words such as:

Dependency, Nothingness, Dissatisfied, Past, Disruption, Inconvenience

Bearing fruit like...

Artificial, Reduced, Deterioration, Expensive, Overthrown, Self-Destruction, Indifference, Destructive

While the roots on the tree to the right connect to:

Reflect, Independent, New, Success, Manage, Understanding, Attention, Changes, Ideas

Bearing fruit like...

Reflected, Freedom, Ability, Go Places, Life, Exercise, Creationj, Permitted, Freedom

Redefining The Future #6

Inspired by a piece I saw on a website, I wanted to utilize the words on the page which are:

Decline & Doom are not inevitable

Survival is not inevitable either

Much of it has yet to be written

I thought this was perfect since it all has yet to be written...be present in the moment, don't be attached to the outcome. The spiral represents the constant flow of life.

I used modelling compound to create some texture and I painted the spiral gold.

The opposite page is a paper with a gold mesh ribbon. The words represent the whole idea of death and rebirth - a goddess card, Cerridwin that I picked earlier this week struggling to recreate my relationship:

With death comes

new life.

But don't we mourn the life lost?

Rebirth

leads to

Possibility

What of the King Stag when the

young stag

is Grown?

For I love the King Stag.

(a little props to the Mists of Avalon for inspiration)

Redefining The Future #5

This was inspired by the words that I chose - the medium was newspaper and the emotion was crabby and my juicy word was favorite places. I researched article titles from the New York Times written about women and chose specifically those articles in which women were in action. I cut them and created a fence. The writing essentially states how I'm hiding behind this fence that I've created, intimidated by women who are in action. What is the affect of my inaction? Who isn't taken care of because of my inaction?

Redefining The Future #4

I call this one Peeling the Onion - The Healer at the core is what I crave, but the onion layers that are keeping me from truly being present to her beauty, power, love...but she's there - and all I need to do is peel those onion layers to get to her. I think sometimes it's not that the layers need to always be peeled to get to the core - sometimes new invisible layers will pop up to peel - I think it's about working to to be present to the core despite the layers...