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Masculine and Feminine Energy Series
In this series I use my Intuitive Drawing process to illustrate concepts of Masculine and Feminine energy. Separate from gender, Masculine and Feminine energy exists in all of us simultaneously and together comprise a complementary energetic expression.
This art is intended to influence the energy in a space by centering an imbalance or elevating an energy for creativity, structure, or harmony.
Feminine energy is often represented by organic, curved shapes and lines. The energy supports creativity, innovation, new ideas and reimagination. The feminine is an internally contained energy, a regenerating source of inspiration and creativity. Feminine energy expresses power through creation, and its vulnerability in the state of constant nurturing. Creative innovation requires protection from external influence and limitation.
The masculine is represented by straight lines, structure, symmetry and repeated pattern. The masculine draws power externally, from steady advancement and security through sustained effort. The masculine is implementation and control, repair and restoration. The masculine power resides in management and protection, but experiences vulnerability from stagnation and inflexibility.
The Masculine establishes and maintains order, which is the fertile environment the feminine energy needs to conceive and incubate new growth. The feminine refreshes and transmutes the energy from within, unfettered by the rigidity of masculine external structure. The creative power of the feminine allows innovative thinking and development, but just as a child is born complete but immature, needs the masculine to operationalize the new energy. The energies are complementary partners, together expressing a complete energetic lifecycle.
Heart
This drawing started out with an egg shape and grew completely by accident into a heart. In a way, eggs combined become something of a heart shape and as I look at this drawing it reminds me of the complication and joys that come of joining two souls together. They merge and flow and overlap, some walls blending together and new ones sprouting in reaction to the merging influence. They bloom and clash and extend in ways that both enhance and disrupt the original as well as create new material within and without. But at the center remains the egg, a symbol of the protected life force and spark that initiated the pairing. These drawings promote revitalization, reunion, and a reminder that the foundation of a pairing is a lush garden of initiation that blooms only once from that first seeding. Blooms fade and seed and are reborn in cycles through seasons and conditions. Like the garden a partnership requires active nurturing, protection and dedication to create years of evolving joy.
Butterfly
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This series includes prints, original drawings and paintings
Beetles
In this I see the iridescent wings of beetles. Beetles represent luck, persistence, and teamwork. Heart patterns appear, assembled and disassembled in places. The inversion reminds me of the receptive and projective masculine and feminine aspects, but in this pair the masculine appears as both the inverted, receptive feminine channel as well as the projecting masculine. This pair represents to me the balance of masculine and feminine properties, with the feminine solid, growing, and in bloom along with a masculine that can, with a change of perspective, shift to present the best of the feminine quality as well. I feel this pair would promote harmony, receptivity, and compromise within a space.
Music
This drawing describes the flow and rhythm of music, experienced internally and externally. For the masculine, the sound moves through the center, creating spaces of movement within and without. For the Feminine, that motion is experienced on the outside and transformed into structure, support, as she participates separate from the external as a being of internal rhythms and flows, in the role of muse and creator.
Blue Branches - Masculine, Feminine, Union
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Moth
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Earth Day Series
Earth Day Series - Fish, Frog, Bird, Otter
This series happened completely by chance. I started my usual Intuitive Drawing process, experimenting with watercolor paper and ink. The images took the shape of Cocoon and then Fish first, and I realized animal shapes were coming through. For the subsequent drawings, I began with line as I always do and paused to evaluate what animal was appearing, then continued the drawing with that animal in mind. When the flow stopped, I wondered about the appearance of animals in my drawings and realized that it was Earth Day. I wasn’t thinking about it consciously at the time, but whether water and woodland creatures came to my page from subconsciously knowing it was Earth Day or from some divine eco-inspiration, the result is the Earth Day series.
Cocoon
Cocoon was created first, sparking the inspiration for the series.
Pairs
Complementing the originals are grayscale prints depicting the animals in pairs. These pieces emphasize the simplicity of line, without color or backdrop and are composed as mirror images. They are intended to ground and harmonize a space.
Intuitive Print Series
Spring
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