Aditi~Fertility
(No longer in inventory)
Aditi~Consciousness
Aditi~Future
Aditi~Past
Aditi~Space
Each of the five paintings is 33"x33" acrylic on canvas
This series began with inspiration that came from looking at NASA's Picture a Day website. Nebula fascinate me. Who knew there could be such inspiration in colored gas?
I began all five of these paintings with a white and black dynamic. And then I didn't know what to do next. So they sat for five years. Then finally, one day, I had some blue acrylic paint with blue interference left over from another painting I had been working on. Not enough to put in a container, too much to wash down the drain. So I grabbed the painting that became Aditi~Space and put the remaining paint on it. That broke the barrier that was keeping me from moving forward with these paintings. Once I found my way into the process, it took (oddly enough) five weeks to finish the series.
As I was finishing the last painting in the series, I came across information about the goddess Aditi, a Vedic goddess of the infinite or the void. Having five aspects, I knew she was a part of the narrative in these paintings. Why did I name the unconscious aspect "Consciousness," though?
Looks are deceiving here--someday, I'll get the technology figured out. The square paintings are 18"x18" and the rectangular are 18"x27". I haven't decided the order of the paintings yet. The process started for each painting as a rubbing of items that were symbolic of my childhood and the things that hook us as adults so that we go back to that child self. I was looking for transcendence and transformation. The title comes from a Muriel Rukeyser quote: What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
