Terra Mater

The painting is earthly, sensual image of a girl women. But for all its materiality, I tried very hard to make it weightless, nebelnest... Wish you felt the aroma of sandalwood and clove... She's Mother Nature, Mother Earth. Archetypes — Anima (Jung), Gaia, Venus, Freyja, ISIS of Egypt. Fertility, physical and spiritual creative power, reached its implementation. Corresponds to the figure 3, the third Arcana (the Empress) Tarot, the tree of Sephiroth — 14 path (the Union of male and female — Chokmah and Bina, thereby linking all the tree). Colors — emerald green and sky blue. It is not just matter, but particular invisible substance which, on the one hand, relates the matter (the principle of Eros), and on the other gives matter an irresistible charm. The circle combined with a square — a symbol of the connection between the soul or "I" (circle), and the body, or reality (the square). It is also a symbol of the divine spark in a mortal, earthly body. Around the earth there is this spark? Bird, stylized drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, is a kind of subtle hint at the dove, in whose image the Christian paintings and icons was the descent of the Holy spirit to the virgin Mary. Her hands folded in the form of two half moons rising (birth) and decreasing (decay). All in her hands. Nature creates, gives life, but by her own laws she takes. This is the principle of balance (give-take), the law of balance (Yin-Yang)...