Nine Waves OutBy Karen SchumanFabric, Dye, Acrylic, Fabric Applique’, Quilting, Decoupage30”x24”$850I have the wish that my art pieces depict a portal; some aspect that is meant to show an opening to another place/dimension. Using geometry from the Flower of Life philosophy,
wisdom from the book, Song of the Deer; the Great Sundance, by Thunder Strikes; and my own perspective on the Three Worlds (Heavenly, Middle, and Underworld)
from my education in shamanic training from my Toltec Wisdom teachers/masters, don Allan Hardman and Alberto Hernandez,
Peruvian shamanism from Amy Wilinkski, Jose Luis Herrara, dona Bernadina, don Ilario, and dona Alejandrina, and Mayan Wisdom from Shuni Giron, I have created this piece.
The two circles depict the two worlds, Heavenly World and Underworld, the first split of Creation. The overlap in the conjoined circles creates a vesica piscis, the “eye” where the Middle World, our physical world, emerged through this portal and now exists between the two.
We are now in this time of social, political, world chaos. I view this as the world structure coming to a completion in the 0-9 Sacred Law. It will become the past and move into the Underworld and become a two-dimensional memory and story. We are being compelled to move through this portal and a new World Tree will grow from the roots of the past. The woman makes a new ripple in the water, the action starts a new cycle of the 0-9 outward ripple pattern and we start over, one level up. Some will live and some will die, along with our beliefs, philosophies, politics, rules, and laws. It is a time of great learning as the Jaws of Death emits its’ energy through a pandemic and claims what belongs to it; and forces the living to evolve. Quetzalcoatl soars above the Heavenly World carrying the cosmic vibration that is the only energy that is eternal and infinite.
Published in the 2023 Edition of American Artwork
