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?
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