My Labyrinth

[Mika]

Last fall before Avatar I had started painting Labyrinths! This was my first one and for the last 10 months or so its been wrapped up and put away! Today, after some intensive housecleaning and reclaiming my living room as an art studio YEAH I got to bring it out again! And so excited that I took my first picture of it . and well just had to share!

I call it (now) my Home Tree Labyrinth!





"Let me walk in beauty
and make my eyes ever behold
the red and purple sunset;
my hands respect
the things that you have made;
my ears sharp
so I may hear your voice.
Make me wise,
so I may learn the things
you have taught my people,
the lessons you have hidden
under every rock and leaf."

Chief Yellow Lark


Tree, gather up my thoughts
like the clouds in your branches.
Draw up my soul
like the waters in your root.

In the arteries of your trunk
bring me together.
Through your leaves
breathe out the sky.
- J. Daniel Beaudry, Breath

btw its 9ft by 9ft (just to get a sense of size)

and now i can get back to painting some more~!


Edit: October 9, 2010 - Walking a Labyrinth is an ancient form of meditation and while you walk in and out to the centre of the labyrinth, you also walk in and out to the center of your being. As such I have started to include some meditations that are reflections of contemplation of ones relationship to this living being we call Earth/Gaia/Mother.

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