Alchemizing a Human Experience
Manifesto
The tangible and intangible are swimming around us in every moment.
As light bleeds and weaves through multiple layers, levels and frequency color, we begin to sense a connectedness that transcends our human form and verbalization. It is a space in between where feelings are met, shared, blended, ignited and flow just as the river over the earth and the aurora borealis over the night sky.
I am looking at myself when I am looking at you. Colorings of frequencies swirling at such an astounding rate that a dense matter of formed color stands in front of me. I can touch it, taste it, smell it, have a conversation with it as another dense matter appears. Each swirling, finding a path in the dance of combustible alchemy as the frequencies change, altered by the dynamic touch of combined mass.
In this state of connected awareness, I feel myself one with this moment, with all that is and ever will be. In this moment, we are all one…and in this space, and in this time, I send a wish with my heart and mind.
Alchemizing a Human Art Installation examines life when we strip away the details and see everything in terms of color. The Infinity Mirrors represent the end caps of life and death with the major Oil Pastel pieces representing Pinnacle Life Moments that everyone has on a life journey. Our known universe is made up of 7 rays on the color spectrum and are symbolized by the Chakra symbols with the splatter pieces surrounding them representing constellations. We are a cosmos within a cosmos.
What if we saw life as only color, how incredibly beautiful and awe-inspiring that story is.
Opening Night Event Photography by Elizabeth Kadwell
Soul Love Symphony
Discovery of one’s internal masculine and Feminine
In the dark, my fears cascaded across my mind. I was running and running, looking for a silver ring I had lost. This piece of jewelry represented happiness and sunshine. I fell to the floor, sobbing in fear of being lost and uncertain, I spoke “I’m never going to find it” between the tears.
At that moment, a man appeared and extended his hand to me, “How will you know if you never try?” I stared at him as I took his hand. I still only remember his eyes, but those words, in the sea of confusion of a dream, snapped me out of a fog.
As I stood up he disappeared and I began to search and feel my way in the dark. Slowly, I saw light appear from far away. I started jogging towards the light, at first, timidly, then, upon getting closer, much faster with wild purpose. I reached the door and stepped through, the dark of once prior now merely a faded memory barely able to be retraced.
In this room was a woman standing in the middle and there were paintings all around her. One by one I looked at them and felt more alive than when awake. This woman smiled at me. I asked her, “Whose are these?”, motioning to all the creations in the room. Smiling still, she spoke “They’re yours” and the silver ring was resting on the table in the middle of the room.
Grasping for air, I jolted out of bed…
…then she begins, the blank canvas staring into me, asking me to tell her all my stories. I gladly tell her, stroke by stroke and color by color all the gory details. I was born this way.
He Said - playlist poem
Act I
I was the troubled boy,
looking for a double dare.
When I win your heart -
I’m gonna paint it cherry red.
Before you came into my life, I missed you so bad.
Hey,
I just met you
and this is crazy - but
here’s my number.
So call me,
maybe?
You said, follow me deeper.
I’ve waited years for you my dear.
Yes it’s true,
I’m happy to be stuck with you.
We thought about giving up,
but we could never stay away.
Somebody told me to call you.
Act ii
I will find my own way out.
Drown me in your water.
Lose me in the dark.
Drag me to the deep.
Let your water wash over me.
Anywhere I go there you are.
I’ve been getting used to waking up with you.
I always feel you in my blood.
Everything is fine when your hand’s resting next to mine.
Let my love open the door.
You can’t seem to get enough.
When everything feels all over, everybody seems unkind.
I’ll give you a four-leaf clover.
Take all worry out of your mind.
I found my way out of the darkness.
When the river was deep, I didn’t falter.
When the mountain was high, I still believed.
When the valley was low, it didn’t stop me.
No, no. I knew you were waiting.
I knew you were waiting for me.
I want your high love and emotion endlessly.
You act so different around me.
I know exactly who you could be.
Act iii
Just hold on,
we’re going home.
Don’t you forget about me.
Won't you come see about me?
Will you recognize me?
I won’t waste a minute without you.
They don’t get your soul or your fire.
I want so much to open your eyes,
‘cause I need you to look into mine.
Take my hand,
knot your fingers through mine
and we’ll walk from this dark room for the last time.
I am so into you.
When you walked into the room,
there was voodoo in the vibes.
Captured by your style.
Am I dreaming?
Where are you when I need someone close to me?
Everything is easy when the ground beneath me needs me.
You play with words,
you play with love.
You’ve gotta know ~ what my head overlooks,
the senses will show to my heart.
If you’re letting me in ~ or letting me go ~
don’t lie.
Show me.
“we did it all for the glory of love”
Act iv
I’ve been running all night long.
I want you to know that I wait for us.
I want you to show me your younger love.
We did it all for the glory of love.
There’s so many things I wanna say.
I will always love you.
I’ll be the hero you’re dreaming of.
We belong together.
I’ve invested too much time to give you up that easy to the doubts that complicate your mind.
I hear your voice inside me,
I see your face everywhere.
I’m winking at you.
I’m gonna make you notice.
Gonna use my imagination,
‘cause I’m gonna make you see there’s nobody else here,
no one but me.
I’ve gotta have some of your attention.
darling, dive in
I never knew you were the someone waiting for me.
We fell in love,
not knowing what it was.
I will not give you up this time.
I’m listening to our favorite song.
I’m so inspired by you.
Now I know that happiness goes on.
That’s where you found me -
when you put your arms around me.
I’m that voice you’re hearing in the hall.
The greatest miracle of all is how I need you ~
and how you needed me too.
I want you so bad -
I think you ought to know that,
I intend to hold you for the longest time.
Don’t make me wait to love you.
It didn’t take me long
to fall in love with your mind.
Judging from your outlook on life,
I knew this would be more than just one night.
I’m already sold on the idea of you and I.
She Said - playlist poem
Act i
Turn your magic on ~
we are diamonds taking shape.
I never knew love before ’til you walked through my door.
No matter where I go,
you’re the one for me baby.
Like the legend of the Phoenix ~
all ends with beginnings.
We’ve come too far to give up who we are.
I’m up all night for good fun.
What you see is real.
Who am I to blame you for doubting what you feel?
I was living for a dream.
You were with me all the while.
I get the joy of re-discovering you.
Sending all my love along the wire.
You stand by me,
I’m forever yours faithfully.
I found my way out of the darkness.
When the river was deep, I didn’t falter.
When the mountain was high, I still believed.
When the valley was low, it didn’t stop me.
No, no.
I knew you were waiting.
I knew you were waiting for me.
act ii
All I wanna do is fall in deep.
I’m so into you I can barely breathe.
Name the game to play, then we’ll roll the dice.
I’ve been waiting for you to make a move.
How can I explain talking to myself?
I’m just in awe of what’s in front of me.
There’s nothing left to do but make sweet love to you.
You’re everything to me.
I know I’ve felt like this before, but now I’m feeling it even more,
because it came from you.
A different way to be.
You’re what I couldn’t find.
Baby, I’m howlin’ for you.
I must admit,
I can’t explain any of these thoughts racing through my brain.
It’s true.
I’m free of fear.
I’ll stand in front of you. I’ll take the force of the blow. Protection.
I can’t change the way you feel, but I could put my arms around you.
ACT III
I believe in the power of love.
With you I’m not a little girl, with you I’m not a man.
When all the hurt inside of me comes out, you understand.
I don’t feel too strange for you, don’t know exactly what you do.
I think when love is pure you try to understand the reasons why.
Can you hear me calling out your name?
‘Come on baby, we better make a start.
You better make it soon before you break my heart.
I love you.
Don’t ever let go.
You have love in places I can’t describe.
I need you.
Let the lovers love, let the fighters fight.
I’m alone in this garden.
You tell me I’m not when I know that I am.
Look at all that wasted anger.
I like smokin’ lightning,
looking for adventure and whatever comes our way.
Take the world in a love embrace.
You’re gonna make it happen.
Like a true nature’s child, we were born to be wild.
If you judge a book by the cover, then you judge a look by the lover.
When your world is full of strange arrangements
and gravity won’t pull you through - you know you’re missing out on something -
well that something depends on you.
I’m caught up in your smile.
I’m caught up in this moment.
We don’t need to rush this.
Just a kiss on your lips in the moonlight.
I don’t want to mess this thing up.
I don’t want to push too far.
Just a shot in the dark you just might be the one I’ve waited for my whole life.
act iv
You’re the reason I believe in love.
I will love you with every beat of my heart.
I just called to say I love you.
It’s just an ordinary day.
What it is, is something true.
You’re the whisper of a summer breeze.
You’re the kiss that puts my soul at ease.
What I’m saying is, I’m into you.
I’m gonna take this love right to you.
No one else has touched me so deep inside.
Here I am with open arms
hoping you’ll see what your love means to me.
Feeling your heart beat with mine,
softly you whisper - you’re so sincere,
“How could our love be so blind?”
Living without you, wanting to hold you, how much I wanted you home.
Now you’ve come back and turned night into day.
I need you to stay.
“just a shot in the dark you just might be the one I’ve waited for my whole life”
Original Artwork Transforms a space.
"The Chief" - Original Sold
oil pastel on canvas, 36" x 24" x 2"
Artwork meaning:
The seer in the center of the chaos. Creative energy that manifests into reality, drawing intentions and thoughts from the captain in the center - you. You are The Chief of your life experience and are able to create all the potentials you can imagine. Your higher-self and your physical-self are working in tandem to bring forth all the dreams that float like ripples through existence.
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