GeoGraphics
Earthly Reflections

I have always loved the earth. Been enraptured by the diversity, the beauty, the synastry and its perfection. I have always loved to paint as well and prefer the fluid lightness of watercolors above all mediums. Throughout my life my paintings have tended to be most rewarding to me and appealing to others when the theme was of nature. For years I failed to see that there was a message in this simple reality. But two seemingly unrelated events changed that.

In April of 2000, I became a Practitioner and Advanced Practitioner of the EMF Balancing Technique® and began an intentional change in my life. Using the techniques I learned to manage electromagnetic energy within my energy anatomy, I put out a seed of light to activate my potential, whatever that was.

In February of 2001 I had the privilege of participating in a workshop with a co-founder of the Findhorn Community and Gardens in Scotland. Findhorn is located on a sandy fjord, with soil so poor it could barely support a weed, let alone magnificent flowers and vegetables. Yet magnificent is the only term for what was grown there. The success and fame of these gardens, starting in the 1970s could only have happened with telepathic contacts with the Devic Kingdoms and the guidance provided by these "nature spirits".

In the past such contacts, even with demonstrable results, were often met with skepticism. Today however, science supports the theory of a unified field of intelligence, and applications of expanded perception are becoming far more common. The military, for example, teaches people to perform remote viewing. If the unified field of intelligence is everywhere then everything in that field is intelligent. The expression of that intelligence takes on a variety of forms but is always present and we are learning new ways to both understand and tap into it. Our universe is becoming understood as a vast, intelligent communication system that manifests in form and experience.

My seed of light bloomed, carrying me out of my public service job through an early retirement. In my new found freedom I had time to consider what I really wanted. The walls that separated the energy work from the painting began to dissolve. It was only then that I began to explore the concept of a more connected approach to painting, one in which nature was not objectified, but rather invited to be interactive. I wanted to build an interactive relationship in which energy was the vehicle for communication and expression. I had learned methods to communicate with nature spirits and I had developed skills for working with energy. Could they be combined?

My first attempts in approaching this collaboration produced poetic and insightful words that flowed as quickly and as fleetingly as do dreams. I found the role of scribe an easy fit. But the paintings were rigid and lacked evidence of sustained interaction throughout the creative process. My lessons were many; pearls of explanation revealed one unsuccessful painting at a time! But there was a continuity and truthfulness in the messages that was easy to accept but hard to represent. I needed to bring the experience of my training and skills to the easel but I needed to abandon my rigid, mechanistic techniques and my ego. I also needed to allow the same energetic flow that brought in the words, to merge with the water and the medium. But more than anything, I needed to learn to be a partner in the process. And my role in this partnership is as much that of a vessel as it is artist.

The subject choices for the GeoGraphics project come from whatever captures my attention in the moment. These attractions generally occur when I am not engaged in “the hunt” and when my focus is just one of appreciation in general for my environment. In fact, the more appreciative I feel, the greater the chance that I will feel the subtle urging to look, to “see” and to “listen”. The work continues to evolve for nothing is static. Yet the images, frozen frames of time, hold open the fleeting "now" in approximation. May the underlying energy kindle the magic of the world we have forgotten but can remember.