Anima Mundi (2020)
In the summer of 2020, I began experimenting with natural ink as an attempt to be present and to find the rhythm of healing Self with the help of the eminent power of nature.
This whole natural ink project is called Anima Mundi – the living spiritual aspect of the world, as my journey of ego-self to eco-self.
In parallel to that, I observe how my artistic practice and spiritual practice can talk to each other.
Are they the same or are they different? Welcome to Anima Mundi.
Natural ink experiments
Cultivation of presence,
as a path to healing self...
How do my artistic practice and spiritual practice can talk to each other?
Today I discovered that this flower is called Trumpet Vine.
What does nature's illness trying to tell us about our inner illness ?
What does it mean to know cherry seeds
from inside rather than outside?
How does my experience of this flower change within me:
when I know the name of it vs I don't know the name of it?
Shades of pink
Shades of sunset.
Nature always wants to be one,
it's just my ego that wanted to separate.
We have never been divided (2020)
Beetroot, cabbage and avocado ink on paper
24 x 28” (35.56 x 71.12 cm)
C O S M O
In Greek kósmos means “order" as opposed to disorder
We are ephemeral being.
Collecting materials is an important process for my making.
"The outer world we live in is a reflection of our inner state of consciousness." –Ingerman, Sandra. Spiritual Ecology, THE CRY of the EARTH
What does it mean to make an Anima Mundi Tank top? What would be the ideal textile for it?
Drop of Bliss...
like Bindu... a Sanskrit term for the point or dot from which all creation begins and ultimately unites...
How can I be a part of transformative cosmological story?
Cosmic thinking...
I found this colour so beautiful. I wondered what it's like as an ink.
The result
"Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings." – Jung, Carl. The Earth has a Soul
Hammock Dress Sketch (2020)
What is it like to practice death in support of these trees that I adore? What would be the tool for it?
Through Hammock Dress?
More dot and a little visitor who loves my ink
My role as a painter who paints, shifted to a role as a photographer who documents an unexpected visitor – a hungry ant – who slurped the ink, intermingled the surface around and ‘performed.’
Tripple conjunction
What do planets and the universe tell us about our being?
How do I build a "Story of a deep kinship with all life" ?
–Macy, Joanna. Spiritual Ecology THE CRY of the EARTH
Visual therapy
Today I wanted to send my sister in Dubai this birthday gift but I was told that the boarder is not open.
Week 14 (2nd week of July)
Surrendering to senses’ revelation
I lost the drive of my own being,
And dreamlike thinking seemed
To daze and rob me of myself.
Yet quickening there draws near
In sense appearance cosmic
thinking.
– Rudolf Steiner
After experimenting with various linens, I decided to go with linen x viscose mix for my Anima Mundi tank top.
Everything starts with a dot.
– Wassily Kandinsky
How does natural ink talk to various fabrics?
Sun shows its face on and off.
The uncertainty of the weather ...
Following the weather is to joyfully cope with uncertain time.
Shadow: Catch me if you can.
In playing with shadow, I show up fully.
I follow shadow as my
guide to be present and
guide for my design.
(pattern)
In progressing body and mind manifestation, the project started as an aim to make an Anima Mundi wardrobe. The material pattern is executed by catching the shadows of the tree, which precipitated out of my pure awareness.
Catching shadow demands my full presence.
We are all one.
Thought subsides when
I follow shadows...
Time doesn’t exist.
Shadow is getting longer and longer really quickly.
How do the materials hang on a tree and synthesize with nature?
In choiceless awareness,
I invite my own presence.
Mind becomes silent,
Peace appears within.
I will continue to practice Non-attachment.
Material was then cut and brought to nature where I hand sewed.
Can I be one with
the environment?
What is my conviction as an ecological spiritual artist?
Mending...stitching...
Anima Mundi tank top
The threads, random in colours and length, flow into each other as I unsolidified the knot to nothingness from my sewing box.
Anima Mundi Tanktop (2020)
Hand painted on linen with natural ink, hand sewn
Variable dimensions
The ink at time was visually perceivable – now it’s barely visible – only individual stitches remain, operating as notations of residues from moments in which I experienced Anima Mundi.
To catch the shadow (2020)Natural ink on paper
10” x 14 “ (25.40 cm x 35.56 cm)
The work documents my time spent in the woods, away from the complexities of social institutional self. It evolved in direct response to the ephemeral phenomenon of shadows of the trees and plants around. The work serves as a palimpsest containing interconnected webs of all living beings, in which I am part of.
The world of a gypsy moss (2020)
Natural ink and trace of a worm on paper
10” x 14 “ (25.40 cm x 35.56 cm)
The photo is shot in Jan 2021
Moving as I feel...
Traces of my joy
