The Transitional Image

I AM READY

I am ready! Bring it on. I feel like Conan shaking loose the chains. The beautiful thing:::not anger. Yes, outrage, a bit of indignation, all good, the jungle roars too. And these last few months really put me over the edge. Then to discover I can fly! OK, flying back down to the ground somewhat wobbly landing hard, nontheless not falling and crashing. Feels so fine to have big beautiful mind state wings unfurling from my heart, and talons. 

The strength of form is integral to the authenticity of substance. 

There are two fundamental mind states: Love and Fear. It is my greatest hope to act from love. Please don't grab. Humans are greedy greedy greedy. In our desire, what we falsely believe is love, we will take and devour everything we see as beautiful and good. The only solution is self discipline and respect. And awareness. To hone sensitivity and perceive the intelligent nature of the universe. This is love. 

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This Image: "Feminine Warrior" Elena Ray Copyright 2009. Elise Kost ART Medicine Adornment portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elenaray/sets/72157622947009980/

 

A Gift From The Goddess

Today I'm beginning post production work on a shoot I did with Elise yesterday. We were out near Indian Cove in Joshua Tree National Park and the weather was perfect. I am really beginning to understand natural light; it's so simple when you can capture it. And my D700 is !!!!. I'm still blown away by that sensor and it's ability to perform in low light. This image of her was taken post sunset 800 ISO wide open. We worked all afternoon though, so there's a lot more images. Elise's creativity is thrilling; she is such a unique spirit. We treasure her. ........................................................................................ This Image "Portrait of Elise". Elena Ray copyright 2009. You can have Elise's ART MEDICINE ADORNMENT :::: http://www.elisekost.com/

Healing

Have allowed myself to fall into a yin energy::: reading, watching Youtube videos, sitting outside beneath our big Joshua Tree, in the brilliant illumination of the warm autumn sun, doing nothing. I am healing which is accepting, allowing, open, protected. The Myofascial Treatment was a revelation. There are many lessons to be absorbed at the moment. Having recently watched "The Matrix" again I have this feeling that I too am having new programs downloaded into my being. Passivity and receptivity has purpose; turn on tune in receive energy. ........................................................................................ This Image "Poetry Flower" Elena Ray Copyright 2009. Collage 8. 5" x 11".

Body Work

Tomorrow I'm having a deep tissue treatment with an "intuitive" healer ( http://tecopahotspringsmassage.com ). I'd been living with an injury I sustained about 4 months ago while transitioning from a bound lunge into a bound triangle. These last three weeks I stopped going to class and focused my yoga practice on the injured leg and that has made a big improvement. Hopefully tomorrows experience will completely release whatever happened there. I'm also looking forward to someone focusing all their energy on me. I am feeling so discombobulated and disconnected lately. I really need to figure out how to get back on the joy ride. I seem to be getting on all the wrong rides! There's got to be a shift somewhere I can take. And then I start dreaming of the desert;  I mean, the faraway desert. Soon my ticket to Timbuktu will arrive. I'll be crossing the Saharan desert to be reunited with my lost soul. And I'll leave before my cluttered heart knows what happened... Though, considering everyone I know whose attempted to escape or evade the heart I realize that the heart will always find you. It will never let you go.

Here's an interesting book I read recently that motivated my interest in bodyworkers: "Groundworks: Narratives of Embodiment" by Don Hanlon Johnson http://amzn.com/1556432356

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This Image "Sun Salute" Elena Ray Copyright 2009. Photo based illustration. 

-just in from the US postal service:
The Aleph and Other Stories" by Jorge Luis Borges. Almost done with psychology book "Boundaries" by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend. I apologize in advance for no longer being accommodating. :)

Solitude

I have been alone much of late. I cranked my posterior in yoga so for now no longer attending class instead sitting "on ice" (right now). All my friends have either forgotten me or grown tired of me. Tim is away again most the time so it is just me and my mortality and the two cats here. So thank God. I'm alone. I can work and I am working. The past few days I've been fascinated with photo illustration in Photoshop while simultaneously compiling MP3 downloads of music for yoga practice (home practice). Shiva Rae has nothing on me when it comes to musical compilation::: I would challenge her to a sound off any day! Flow on.




________________________________________________________________________________________ All Images "Untitled" Photo based illustration Copyright Elena Ray 2009. Basically I start with a nice composition with a lovely subject that is poorly lit or out of focus (I'm working on these issues!).Then I add layer after layer of paintings that were good intentions (someday Picasso will weep). The combined magic of photography, paint, Photoshop, and beautiful subjects.

13" x 19" Collage of a Pelican I photographed while we were camping at McGrath State Beach.

Kinwashi Substrates coated with INKAID

17" x 22" Encaustic Kozo prints from "Light On Yoga"

 I really got so much done this weekend; some more encaustic Iynegar prints, produced a bunch of Kinwashi substrates, practiced calligraphy quite a bit and::: yoga.Todays two yoga practices were stellar. I love practicing alone more and more. I actually felt kinda nauseated this afternoon which sounds awful but it really means I've reached tissue that's detoxifying. Usually only my teacher can get me to that point. 

Deer Spirit

 

...profoundly lonely, working alone. I hear my Siberian shaman praying my name. This connection I live for, only found alone. I feel myself on a faraway plateau. I don't belong here but the soul loves mix ups. _________________________________________________________________________________________ 

This Image "Deer Totem" 13" x 19 " Acrylic on paper. Elena Ray copyright 2009

 

Unleashing

Funny how resistance to my own free expression reveals itself so shamelessly as reason. Sometimes I think it is my essential mission as an artist; to undo this mysterious conditioning that portrays itself as propriety. _____________________________________________________________________________________ 

This Image "Ginkgo Leaf 2" Elena Ray Copyright 2009.

 

The Cup is Full

_________________________________________________________________________________________ This Image "All Is Well" Teapot Collage with character for KING or All is Well))) plus snapshot of my studio right before I put all this work in a box and now my walls are empty again.