Everyone needs to take a little break now and then....
The artwork in this video was created using my alcohol ink paintings as source images, with music from Hildegard of Bingen, Vision 1 - The Fire of Creation. If you are unable to view the video on my blog, you can watch it directly on YouTube at A Pause for Beauty.
During this season of Lent, I am traveling with Hildegard of Bingen and a blessed company of kindred spirits, through an online retreat led by Christine Valters Paintner at Abbey of the Arts. Creative expression is an important part of this journey, and I hope to share here some of the art that is bubbling up in me as a result. As it so happens, it feels as though many portals are opening all at once in my life right now!
Although I knew of Hildegard because of her connection with mandalas, I truly "met" her for the first time this past year during another Abbey retreat, Women on the Threshold, and came to appreciate more fully the scope of her vision and understanding. The visual meditation, Creation Two Ways, was inspired by her.
Time and Space was created using the alcohol ink painting below as a source image.
Bubbling Up (Stacy Wills, 2013)
3" x 4" alcohol inks on yupo
Here is a recording of Hildegard's beautiful antiphon: Hodie Aperuit
(As you listen, I invite you to click on Time and Space for an enlarged view.)
this video is best viewed in full screen. if you are not able to view it on my blog, you can watch it here on youtube. creation two ways is a creative response to some of the material i am currently engaging with in an online course, women on the threshold, offered through abbey of the arts. enjoy!
I am a contemplative artist, combining traditional mediums and digital technology to create unique images. I have two blogs: A Magic Mom and Her Mandalas, dedicated primarily to the art form of the mandala, and The Sacred Alter, which focuses on what I can only describe as "art birthed from the soul." I hope you will enjoy visiting both.
