Open Studio

I am creating a new thread with this blog to coincide with painting in a new space at the Groundfloor@Santeecourt gallery. I'll be painting there every morning from 8am to 12 pm (except Tuesdays and Saturdays). I'm opening the studio during these hours to invite people to come in and see/ be part of the process. My love and gratitude flies out to Chris and Andrew and Sarah for sharing the space with me.



Day 1: A New Open Listening

I am listening through the brush again. Breathing, blessing through the brush again. Today I set up my painting office, which is a trunk on wheels, at the gallery on the ground floor of the building where we live.

It felt like an old tune in my head. A very very old hum coming back into my heart and my mind. Like I never lost a beat. It felt like home. My home/hum moving through me. I felt plugged into the source. Easy.

Here's my theory. If I can somehow contain a blessing--the light vibration of something good and nourishing--in canvas, push it in there with paint, then that blessing can shine out of that piece of cloth into the space where it's placed. Maybe I can change the vibration in a room-the quality of energy that people are immersed in. Maybe this is how to encourage peace and happiness into another's life. Crazy, no? Ambitious, but I'm going for it.

I started my first two blessing vessels today. Worked on the first layer. As usual, my listening first brought words. Open here now listening being. Om shri maha lakshmiyei swaha (my abundance, health, creativity mantra). Words opened up to color. I'll let it sit that way in space until I paint next. I want to feel it change the energy in that room.