For the past year, I've been painting images of the Meher Center in Myrtle Beach, SC and Meherabad/Meherazad near Ahmednagar India. Soon I'll include a separate "Meherazad" gallery on my web site and also a gallery I plan to call "Still Life(s) with Baba"--still life paintings that include framed photos of Baba amongst the flowers, fruit, wine bottles or other symbolic objects.
Most of the Meher Center paintings were done outdoors at a nearby park. I was amazed at how often people would stop and ask me where that place was, that it seemed so peaceful or special to them. One woman started crying while looking at one of the Boathouse paintings.
I'll be painting a series of abstract landscapes that include either external or internal views of the Samadhi (see the painting "Sacred Ground"). In the abstracts, I'm hoping to convey the powerful spiritual energy that I imagine radiates down into the earth beneath Baba's tomb or out into the surrounding sky.
I'll be posting thoughts about the paintings as I do them, the creative process, ways of seeing or perceiving the sacred spaces we know as the Meher Center, Meherabad, Meherazad.
What I've been attempting to do is capture with paint the envelope of divine light and love that permeates and surrounds every leaf, stone, brick and board at the Meher retreats.
-joe
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment