The Elemental Vision: Portraits in the Mische Technique

The Elemental Vision: Portraits in the Mische Technique

$10,000

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Long before God, long before Yahweh, before even Zues, going back as far as when nomadic peoples first started roaming the savannah, the grand deity that gave birth to them all was worshipped. She was the ultimate creator, the benevolent giver of Life and the one that would inevitably take it away. She was the continuum, the rhythm of nature, the breadth in the air, the cycles of life visible on the nascent Earth. She nourished her creatures from her soil and illuminated the night from her heavens. She was the radiant sun that kissed her children awake, the din and lightning of the storm that purged and cleansed the air. She was the vital energy, the youthful blood of a newly born child, the dark mystical warm blood of the mother giving birth and the phantom chill in the blood of death. She was both beautiful and gruesome, inducing both ecstasy and terror. She embodied the very existence of those first peoples, the sights, sounds, fears and hopes that they encountered as they began to explore the wondrous expanse of the unknown. She grew out of their experiences and their intimate familiarity with the forces of our planet, the influence of the vast empyrean above them, and the subtle energies surrounding them.

She was not ruling on high from an unreachable throne, but could be found in the birds flying through the air, the plants growing in the ancient forests, as well as in the celestial bodies visible in the night sky. She dwelled inside the women and men themselves that gave ritual thanks to her as they were not only her children, but were inextricably within the forces that were her being, along side every other creature co-inhabiting the Earth. The snake annually shedding its skin was a symbol of the eternal return, the cycle of life and death. The moon was her cosmic orb as it waned and waxed, grew to light and then faded to dark. She was present in the sacred bull that carried the moon itself on his head as his horns. She was the dualities of life, the unfathomable mysteries of the dark and the revealing clarity of the light.

She was represented by carvings of spirals and double spirals that can still be seen today in the ancient rocks in the ancestral homelands. Her alters and her icons were painted with red ochre, the color of the life blood, as were burial chambers and the dead themselves. She was depicted many times with a green child, often shown as a dove, the fresh spring of life, the potential that everything new can hold. The great Goddess was also shown as a crone, an old woman, withered and dying, with a vulture menacingly peering by her side. She was shown as a Bird and Snake Goddess, as a pregnant expecting mother, and as a warrior queen. Her symbols are still visible in modern times both in artifact and in the collective consciousness inside each of us that has inherited her wisdom.

Many try to teach that these are only fertility and luck tokens, common nothings that happened to survive the test of time. But the truth of her realities are the essential substance of life and existence that we are inherently a part of and can witness all around us. Her power is the essence of us all, deep in our primordial hearts, and we all have the ability to reopen its surging energy. Yet, it should not replace all that mankind has learned in our several thousand years, but its strength must be incorporated with that knowledge, creating a greater fusion and equilibrium than ever before realized.

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Earth 10"x20" (print size)

Water 11"x20"

Fire 10"x20"

Air 11"x20"

As we run and hurry through our everyday, life seems to be a flat go here, do this, get this done sort of world. Now, stop for a minute, and think about it again.

Think of not only your life, but the lives of everyone you know, your family, your friends, colleagues, acquaintances. Perhaps think of what they do during the course of a day. Then begin to think of how many people all of them know that you don’t and imagine each of them living their own lives, worrying their own worries and experiencing their own joys. Now think of it all happening all at the same time, right now. Then just try to expand this out to our entire country, our continent, the rest of the world, all the people in it, living their own lives, doing whatever they are doing, right now. Stay with me here. Now expand that out even further and think of the animals, the plants, the wind, the sunshine, where it could be raining, where it could be night. It’s somewhat mind-boggling isn’t it? It goes even further than that because we live on a planet that is orbiting a sun that is part of a solar planetary system, which is part of a galaxy, that is one of countless in an ever expanding infinite universe. It’s not really such a flat do this do that world is it? Yet, that’s only a part of the picture. Remember that we are all made of molecules, which are formed from atoms, which can be broken down further until we get to where modern physics believes that vibrating strings are the makeup of our physical reality. I think you’re getting the picture.

We exist in a vast hologram, where very distinct individual parts, like you and me, like our cells in our body, like the galaxies in space, function and exist on our own, but are part of a vast whole, a unified totality, a grand picture where we have no idea what the image looks like. Individually, we ourselves are a vast hologram, with tissue, organs, bones, and subtle energies making up our own unified whole. There is the microcosm to the great macrocosm, the small and the big in a connected intertwining system. One of the building blocks of all of this is the elements, the subtle energies that are their essences, to the material manifestations that we are so familiar with.

The elements are not just what we think of as earth, fire, water and air, but they are also metaphors for energies felt in our physical, mental and spiritual dimensions, not as different phenomenon, but as refined presentations of the same fundamentals. For example, Fire is the life-giving energy of the sun as well as the life-destroying energy of a forest fire. It is the heat of the emotions, like love and hatred, and the red light of the rainbow. They each create and destroy, build up and destruct, heal and hurt, cleanse and contaminate. Each embodies the opposite forces that are inherent in Nature, inherent in our own nature, and it’s the interplay between these energies that metaphorically begin to construct our world.

When we understand the inclusiveness of the elements and how they arise together, we see that everything is connected, everything is influenced by something else, like a giant interlocking pattern of a pearlescent spider’s web.

Sunrise (Sara) only available original $350

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14.5"x14.5" each (print size)

Ba - SOLD

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Angel 14.5"x14.5" (print size)

Ba 11"x20" (print size)

Prints of each of the above paintings are available. email me at rozsa_lazar@yahoo.com if you are interested.

Each are printed on high quality print paper and are matted in acid free black matte with white core. They have been put together with the same care and attention as the originals were painted with.