Creative Spiral

Process

While brainstorming for this piece I talked to my girlfriend and reviewed the major points in my life and I suddenly exclaimed, "Is your life defined my the bad things that happen?" "Wow", she responded. After a bit of discussion we agreed that it's not about whether an event is good or bad, rather, your life is defined by shifts in consciousness. It just happens to work out that these shifts happen to correspond to dramatic events. Though this assignment was to pick out points of creative transition, I feel that most moments connect with the major points in my life. For the transitions that are both, I used art as creative expression leading to healing.

Grateful Epiphany
After completion I gazed down at the piece and was enamoured by the organic process of my life. I had a wave of gratitude for each event that was initially perceived as "bad". Upon retrospect each event is a critical point on my life path leading me to who I am today. And while I already knew that in a abstract cerebral way, doing this process helped me internalize the observation.

Point of Inspiration
And finally, I thought that it would be really interesting to use this same concept as a "Soul Spiral" by dong several past life regressions and then do a spiral based on the symbols that come across during the regression.