The Star We Are

My very latest and current work on the easel is my most involved and rewarding art piece to date.

	2D study 5c	2D Study 6c

Appropriately, the painting was conceived in December 2010 at the end of a two day Shamanic workshop on "The Sacred Marriage of the Divine Feminine and Masculine," taught by Auckland shaman Elisabeth von Madarasz. However, it is only now, on the eve of 2012, that I feel the timing is right for people to actually see, hear and feel this work, and even step into it.
For those who understand astrology, this timing is during my second Saturn Return -- the 3rd December not only marked my mother's 88th birthday, but also saw Saturn exactly conjunct its position at my birth, right alongside Neptune, with these two major planets straddling my Midheaven (this conjunction only occurs every 29 years, so it always marks an important life cycle change). So it's not surprising I'm inspired to create this potentially-transformative art form at this time.
It is intended to take the viewer on a journey of awakening, to discover and connect to One's full, many-dimensional Self. This is done by taking the viewer from a 2-dimensional image to a 3D hologram; then by spinning it with music (Light & Sound), the art transforms into the 4D and through into 5D, transporting the viewer into further dimensions of Consciousness.
Sure, that may seem bizarre to many, at present -- difficult to imagine and accept, since we're having so much trouble just dealing with our 3D lives while working primarily with 2-dimensional objects. So what's this 5D about? There's much more I could say on this matter, but in a sentence: many spiritually-informed people believe the Fifth Dimension frees humanity from the Earthly breakdowns and modern societies' ills -- including the cycles of death and rebirth. Here we are one with the Pure Divine Photon Light, where manifestation is accomplished by thought or intent alone, whereas on Earth at present, much action is also required, using lots of physical and mental energies.
But into 2013, our entire solar system, including planet Earth, will be vibrating in the 5D frequency along with all life forms on Gaia, as we enter Photon Light energy and Earth's velocity through space nearly doubles. We're going to have to "move on or move off." So the two- and three-dimensional art forms humanity is accustomed to will no longer be able to represent our new multi-dimensional reality.
The completed art work will be a translucent circular piece, 3 metres in diameter, painted on the eight surfaces of four sheets of clear perspex (plexiglass), 3mm thick on the front and back, and 6mm thick on the two inner layers. The refraction of Light passing through the perspex and the gaps between layers plays an important role in the overall effect of the piece. The Female and Male figures, representing the Yin and Yang polarities of Self, will be human size.
At this time in early December 2011, I am creating a prototype, 60cm square, which I'll take to the San Francisco Bay Area on Christmas Day along with Lethea, to share with our peers, visionary artists, and leading edge researchers and teachers of integral/spiritual and scientific/evolutionary consciousness, at the Integral Spiritual Experience 3 conference on "Kosmic Creativity" over New Year 2012.
Since creating an initial sketch, the result of a burst of inspiration during our October 2011 artist residency at Lochmara Lodge (just out of Picton, on top of the New Zealand's South Island), I have been on an incredible journey, tracing the evolution of human consciousness from the very beginning at the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, to the present. This "Sacred Marriage into the Oneness of the Divine" is like creating another Big Bang, which will occur once the electro-magnetic polarities symbolised by the archetypal Feminine and Masculine are plugged in and ignnited in Love.