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About Me  Spirit ~ Earth ~ Art ~ Healing Merged within the layers of divine vibration are the elements of spirit, earth and sky. Birds, rocks, trees,they are all conscious. They have not forgotten their source, nor their destination. I align myself with nature. I know each one of my sisters and brothers. We speak together in dreams, and during thought-filled strolls through forests. I can hear the cries of the wild herbs, voices of deer and wolves, and the guidance of tall trees. The essence of “Me” lives the Garden. I create from this source. In dreams I have been called a Shaman. I am a spiritual medium. I do many things, but each is created through truth. I have worked hard to understand the whys, and to see into shadows. I have studied poetry and writing, and achieved degrees in English and in Psychology. I have worked in clay, my prefered medium, since 1995. I am a student of herbalism, and an ardent friend of the earth. I believe that we can all be doing more, to make the world a better place, and to reconnect with our higher nature. We co-create, through our collective thoughts, actions, and inactions. We are one in the universe. We are a whole. What we are, individually, matters. How we grow, and what we nurture, matters. I hope that, through my art and various branches of study, to share with others what is real, as I tend with care to my own space in the garden.  My Work in Clay Most of my pottery is hand-built with coils of clay, built with slabs, or hand-formed and sculpted. This yields a body of work rich in variety of shape and texture. Each piece is one of a kind, with an identifiably unique quality. Much of my pottery is pit-fired and sparsely glazed, with animals and naturalistic elements being frequent motifs. My style is characterized by hues of greens, tans, beiges, and smoky greys that swirl around the vessel. Pieces include boxes, bowls, votives, jewellery, sculpture, and historical tile art. Historical reproductions, and custom sculpted portraits in clay are specialties. Another side of my creative work is whimical and wildly colorful, characterized by a playful spontenaity: Hand-formed and sculpted goddess mugs, asymetrical "anything dishes", garden spirits, hand painted porcelain jewellery, and colorful little mushroom bells are some of the surprises that leap out from the kiln. In the next couple years I will be taking my work to a new level. I have a number of more "serious" projects in the works that will involve the concepts of a) social responsibility, b) looking into oneself and others, and c) conscious and unconsious relationships with our environment. I will be also experimenting with new forms. How soon these projects will come to fruition depends largely upon my gaining financial support, either through sales of my work, through arts grants, or, perhaps, through arts patronage.Contact: aradia@mts.net
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