Breathing Green

Breathing Green
I painted Breathing Green after a three day “Goddess Bootcamp” in the Santa Cruz mountains. Women from all over the United States participated in creating rituals and learning dances that provoked and evoked our creativity. We learned how to go into any fears we may have had; meeting our fears in rituals and also celebrating the Goddess within us in dance and rituals to reinforce our beauty. We met our fears in the woods by flashlight, open grave buried up to our necks in our birthday suits under a full moon,   and on a mountain top bathed in moonlite. We celebrated our beauty and courage with much joy. As a painter I live in the unknown. I never now what the canvas is springing forth until I am in the doing.

Breathing Green was the second painting I painted late that  Sunday nite by candle lite. I grabbed the green paint and could not get enough of it on my hands moving onto my canvas. The music of the Goddess CD playing in the background appeared in the flow of the paint and I began to move quickly within the paint. The brilliant green of life color of the canvas named itself.

If you cannot understand what I am saying it is because words seem difficult to explain the emotion of color. The other day in a gallery conversation the topic of style was brought up. I don’t know what style I have as I paint period.

I remember when my mother died in 1999 and I wore shades of green that seemed like forever;  someone told me that green is rebirth; death and life; this makes sense to me as sometimes I can never eat enough green foods, wear enough green jewelry and clothing and paint paint paint in green. And, I leave you with this though today, Breathe in Green, Breathe in Beauty.