purple (chakraZ™)

I had the most incredible dream on March 17, 2021. For a few days, I had been experiencing some very deep emotional pain from my past abuse and was having a hard time dealing with it. I prayed one night before bedtime asking God for help. 

Then my dream came--around 4 am--I could see myself walking next to God and we had literally transcended all things. The color of the entire scene was lavender--the color of the 7th or crown chakra--which represents connection to our higher power. We were walking on a light lavender colored floor that was very linear and smooth--like the satin translucent acrylic I paint on. I could see us from our back sides. He was on my right side holding my right hand, and we were walking & talking. I could sense the world and all things we deal with were about 2-3 levels below us. There was such peace--a stillness like none I’d ever experienced, yet like I’ve always known!

Calm. Quiet. Balanced. Grounded. Still. No anxiety. No fear. No judgment. My soul energy! All of ours. Christ consciousness. A heightened vibrational energy. He turned to me and said “Everything is ok.”  Then I woke up.  My clock said 4:30 a.m.  This dream was so profound that I meditate on it daily.  The peace that surpasses all understanding.  

I went into my studio a few weeks later and painted it then created a video adding my song "can you hear me?" to it, a message I received years ago when I was dealing with anger while picking up dinner for my family on Valentine's Day.  Life is an incredible journey! 

I think of all the things we are trying to search for in our lives--peace is the most desired emotion.  This dream brought me there.  I hope this image will do the same for you.  

After weeks of creating the chakraZ WHITE series in my head, I entered my studio one evening to paint them. Each stroke on a 27"x21" piece of deep bronze metal. Signifying coming out of the dark. 8 strokes of color--7 from the primary chakra colors--red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet--and pink. The chakra of love. I had been doing a lot of healing work with the chakra colors, releasing memories of childhood abuse, and felt inspired to paint a white stroke through each representing a clearing of any negative energy in that specific chakra. Painting these intense colors dramatically shifted me physiologically in a very positive direction!

Connected to violet, the 7th or crown chakra brings us to our universal connection--all is one. Wisdom, spiritual, dignified, psychic awareness, higher self, motivation, passion, excitement. And white is the color of new beginnings, of wiping the slate clean. It is the blank canvas waiting to be written upon opening the way for the creation of anything the mind can conceive.

The chakraZª WHITE series includes the images "powerful" "life!" "clarity" "youthful" "mantraZ" "manifeZt" "divine wiZdom" and "magnetiZm".

Violet is connected to the 7th or crown chakra. It's about wisdom and being one with the world. It is the color of spirituality and seeking spiritual fulfillment. And also represents the future, the imagination and dreams. When I paint purple, a quietness comes over me. A complete calming of my emotions.

One of my first paintings. The smooth stroke of the violet brings peace to my "soul". Very clean, very grounded, very peaceful. And the white allows my soul to breathe in the space of nothingness.

When I glide purple paints across my metal and Plexi surfaces, a calm comes over me. I feel a quiet reverence. I am literally in a different zone. Purple, the crown chakra, for me, is a freedom of/in consciousness. It is the "void". The space within myself that I can go to where there is no judgment, no fear, no anxiety, just sheer and utter nothingness. It is "inspiration."

This is from one of my first paintings. I would go into my studio with very heavy emotions as I was processing memories from childhood abuse. I really needed deep purple to integrate into my beingness. I was desperate for any kind of help I could get! Purple is related to higher spiritual attainment. It also represents intuition and the mystical side of life. I love that side of life. It makes me feel "complete".