Personal Chakras
ARTIST STATEMENT
Who am I? As a human being. As a daughter. As a sister. As a friend. As an artist. My spiritual self is me. My inner-self is developed from reflection and love. I choose how I express my outer-self through observation and experience. It is who I am in all elements of my life. Chakras create one's spiritual body, playing essential roles within all components of one's life. They create, sustain, and explore all feelings and emotions within yourself.
For this personal project, I created my vision of my spiritual self, displaying who I am on the inside. With the use of silk, natural dyes, and incense, I designed my seven chakras. Natural dye as an ingredient and silk as a fabric connect directly to the human body in which all are creations from Earth's nature. Using the technique of natural dyeing, I see a correlation of the events within my life — do my best to prepare, react accordingly, and accept all results. The characteristics, soft and dependable, are represented by silk; it is a material that is soothing, calming, and trustworthy; this is how I would describe myself as a human being. The designs, colors, and designated incenses of each silk resemble the specific meaning of the seven chakras and how they resonate within me. I envisioned each of my chakras to create the designs based on how I saw them within my body and on a spiritual level. There were two chakras that I feel challenge me the most as a person. In the third chakra, solar / "I do," I created an intense crystalized design, soaked in a natural marigold dye to represent yellow, and selected a peppermint incense to embrace my confidence and self-esteem. For the seventh chakra, crown / "I understand," I created an off-kilter linear design, soaked in indigo and Roja natural dyes to represent violet, and selected frankincense incense to appreciate my spiritual connection and life purpose. Displaying my inner feelings and emotions to the outside world initially made me feel very vulnerable and sensitive. Once I was able to walk past each silk chakra and smell the refreshing scents of incense, I let go of the negative thoughts and insecurities. Through reflection and love, I felt proud and empowered to share my inner-self with the world.
PROCESS PHOTOS
CHAKRA INSENCE
Personal Research:
Salt by Charles George Douglas Roberts
O breath of wind and sea,
Bitter and clear,
Now my faint soul springs free,
Blown clean from fear!
O hard sweet strife, O sting
Of buffeting salt!
Doubt and despair take wing,
Failure, and fault.
I dread not wrath or wrong,—
Smile, and am free;
Strong while the winds are strong,
The rocks, the sea.
Heart of my heart, tho' life
Front us with storm,
Love will outlast the strife,
More pure, more warm.
Metaphysical Properties of Salt
- Life, Death, & Rebirth
- reminds us of the origin of life--necessary for life
- supports physical well being, vitality, & longevity
- resurrection, immortality, cycle of life
- Ocean, Moon, & Feminine
- literal connection between ocean & moon--evaporation
- balancing emotions, intuitions, altering states (dreaming)
- cycles of the moon
- Cube of Earth, Manifestation, & Anchoring Spiritual Energies
- symbolizes stability, equality, & material world--celestial sphere
- six sides (cube) symbolizes union of opposites (male/ female), six directions (East, South, West, North, Above, and Below), and concepts like the six days of Creation in the Bible
- mirroring cosmology
- Incorruptibility, Purification, and Protection
- divine & spiritual development
- preservative qualities & association with holiness
- releasing unwanted influences
- Abundance, Hospitality, and the Sanctity of the Table
- signature of abundance
- peace, domestic harmony, and the sanctity of the shared table
- symbolize a renewal of one’s relationship to God
- Colored Salts and Specific Chakras
- colored by trace inclusions of other minerals or deformations of its crystal structure that change the way light passes through it
- contemporary metaphysical sources associate these colored varieties of salt with the chakras that correspond to them in color
- balance feelings attributed to those chakras
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