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“Madame Reve” means ” Madame Dreams”…

In the Beginning was the Dream… Dreams are our link to the Unconscious.

If we attend to the Unconscious, dialog with it, give it time and space to breathe, it can be our most precious gift of Imagination, Creativity and Intuition… And we become balanced, feeling fulfilled and complete. By embracing the dream state, listening to it and nurture it, we embark on an extraordinary path to Self Conscious Awareness… The Path to Individuation…

I did this painting  while listening to french singer’s song Alain Bashung “Madame Reve”… and named my work this way…

here is an excerpt of the song…

Madame rêve d’atomiseurs
Et de cylindres si longs
Qu’ils sont les seuls
Qui la remplissent de bonheur

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmania.com/madame_reve_lyrics_alain_bashung.html
All about Alain Bashung: http://www.musictory.com/music/Alain+Bashung

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The time has come for the truth to emerge about woman’s role in the world…

Thru the emerging archetype of Lilith, I evoke the “Sacred Prostitute”, and bring her forth, not in the shadow of sin, but as erotic priestess, prophetess and healer.

She is reputedly Adam’s first wife, before Eve. She is the original woman, who refused to be subjugated to a man’s desires. Consort to both the devil and God himself, she is the enigmatic and mysterious Lilith.

Lilith is a great Lunar Goddess, but in biblical times, particularly in Jewish legend, she appears demonic: serpent, blood-sucker, evil-temptress, enchantress, witch, slut, child-killer… she brings death. She represents a side of repressed feminity, the untamed…. Lilith is the blood, she is the deep rage in woman, she is revengeful…

Because of the Christianity conditioning, we have forgotten that Lilith represents that part of us that long to be free. She is a deep remembering of how the woman was… a path from sexuality to spirituality, a bridge, a vessel, who takes you to the Light God.

She is linked with Eroticism… What it is with us and sex?… we are fascinated by it and simultaneously fear it. Our fascination and fear stem from the fact that the energy of Eroticism is the most powerful primal force within ourselves… Before Christianity, the ancients of all cultures revered and worshipped this force for bringing forth Life, Divinity and Wisdom. Tantric Yoga arose from this worship… With the arising of Christianity, the Age of Darkness descended on the world. Persecution of those who possess the secret of the Erotic-Divine connection soon followed, and continues to this day.

A little-known element in astrology charts, Lilith is known as the “dark Moon” and, as such, represents our “dark” or hidden emotional selves. Many women are interested in Lilith, they like to think of Her as a feminist heroine, saying that she is courageous and asserting Her equality.

In our modern view, Lilith is the Goddess of Female independence and autonomy, both sexually and in other aspects of life.

Nowadays, a “positive” Lilith is a woman owning her sexuality, comfortable in her sensuality.

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Hades, Satan, Lucifer, Pluto… are the names for the same energy for which everything in life has the potential for Transformation.

The dark face of Pluto is as the God of death, the Destroyer of the restricting form, and can be more positively perceived in its capacity a God of Release.

However such a light bringing perception is only fully understood by those who have directly encountered the Dark Face. Entering the black inner abyss is the path to the Light.

The use of darkness, both inner and outer, is traditional in the process of Initiation. Pluto is the Guardian of the Gate Of Initiation. Its Phoenix quality symbolizes a triumph over Death, where it is a real ending yet truly a new beginning of a new life, founded on the ashes of the old.

“A seed has to enter beneath the surface of the Earth, gestate in the Underworld of Darkness, die as a seed, before it can emerge into the light of day as a flower to be seen by all who pass by…”

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I have always remembered the story of the “Master Trees”.

The older trees who teach the young trees the Wisdom of Life. Each forest had their Elders Trees or Master Trees…

But nowadays, with the intensive “Deforestation” the Elders have almost disappeared, leaving our forests without Wisdom.

Here in Australia, we are so fortunate, as we still have some Elder Trees growing… I met one of them, my dear friend the “Strangler Fig Tree”… The first time I looked at him, I felt like in ecstasy… Later on, I learned that this Master Tree was in fact two trees embracing each other, in a deadly dance, as one was killing the other… My look on this tree deepened, and I saw there the Transformation Cycle at work… the Death & Rebirth of a beautiful Master tree wearing the traces of Love & Hatred intervined…

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Lovers are dancing a relationship.

Without a relationship, the dance is just steps, just exercise, just earnest, unsmiling locomotion. But if the dance contains emotion and communication, then we have something more than exercise. We have art. This painting symbolizes the art of relationship…..

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Most aligned of all astrological symbols or archetypes is Saturn, whose face as the Beast is well recognized, but whose alternate face as the Handsome Prince is not often considered.

Saturn is not only a representative of pain, restriction, solitude and discipline, He is also a symbol of the psychic process, natural to all of us, by which we may utilize the experience of pain, restriction, solitude and discipline, as a means for greater consciousness and fulfillment.

Therefore Saturn is connected with the educational value of pain, and also with the difference between external values and internal values.

Saturn indicates the solitaire life and spirituality.

The energy of Saturn in the horoscope represents a kind of teacher. Saturn’s purpose is to teach us mastery.

If you have Saturn in Scorpio, like me…By becoming a master of the dark, you face your fears and learn how to go through the death-rebirth process again and again.

Your journeys into formidable inner territory turns you into a wise guide for others. You are especially committed to being present at the thresh hold moments of life….sex, birth and death. You may become someone others look to, as the end draws near. You know how to take the dis-eased and poisoned parts and transform them. This makes you a soul healer, whether you take on that role officially or not. By taking the hard road that leaves no stone unturned, you are a trusted seer for others. When you face your fears and learn to shape your destiny, you become a profound person to those around you.

It is only when the Beast is loved for his own sake, that he can be frees from the spell and can become the Prince…

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I go for a walk in the forest to be with my friends the Trees…

I can feel them breathing, moving, looking at me…

There are then silent conversations that warm my heart, soothe my pain, and fill my mind with beautiful stories…I feel centered and nurtured…and privileged to experience the Divine Love…

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This painting is a window opened to “subjectivity”…

The bird of prey represents the Power, the Challenge, the Karma.

The golden woman is your Conscious Self.

She is kneeling in the bird’s nest in a “Diamond” yoga posture, also known as the “Warrior Posture”. She is receiving a “Mala” necklace…

Is she offering herself willingly as a beautiful gift?

Or is she forced to submit?…

We are here just on the brink of keeping our free spirit,

or becoming a “subject”…

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The deepest longings of the Soul are in the Ocean of Dreams…

Here I delve into the mysteries of longing, of the soul’s desire for Redemption and Release…

For it is Dreams that lift us to the flowing, changing world that the heart longs for…

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“CHILD WITHIN”

The child that is within you is a lovely thing.
Someday it will grow to laugh and to sing.
The child within you is a beautiful boy or girl.
And just like her mother, as precious as pearl…

This painting is a work on Pointilism.

Pointilism is an art form which requires a lot of patience, time and effort… also called the “Dot Art”.

Georges Seurat (1859-1891) a French painter, was the first to use this technique, which uses dots instead of broad strokes to put the paint on the canvas. The individual dot, of different color, are sucked in thru your eyes and mixed up in your head to create a variety of shimmering shades.