Finally Completing Self-Art

[gdf]

OMG, hair! That is very twilight-zone-ish for me because hair is a big image for me in my art. Guardian angels with long flowing locks blowing in the wind. Women with their hair sheared as in Biblical days for acts of adultery to shame them. Wow, I never got the connection! I always though of sensuality vs. sexuality. In my art women always have masses of it either attached or very sadly cut off and scattered to the ground. Thanks for that image in words.

Gina

 

[Artista]

Funny. I've had long hair for maybe the past 8 years. I hide in it I think...

Hair has sooo many strength connotations. Just seemed like it was boring hair before. I DO want to make them look flatter and more petal-like... my spiritual advisor thought they looked a bit phallic! Gees! NOT what I was after... LOL! Just why O love perspectives from others! : )

 

[Artista]

Wanted to mention, I went over another perspective of the painting with T. She said, "Want to know what I see as amazingly hopeful here?" and she said the flowers showed her that I haven't been totally destroyed by the traumas inside... I picked beautiful images for them instead of ugly. She has a point! Hadn't thought of it that way. I should do more Art Therapy. I think some inadvertent things would show up and clue me into more good and bad that can be hard to tap into consciously!!

 

[Jestadud]

Hear what you're saying, It's just not what I'm seeing. I see egg sacks like from a sea creature or even a head louse. Sorry, everything else makes me go "wow" yet that part has a ugh feel about it for me, I end up scratching my head. Sure that it will look great when you make them "flatter and more petal-like".

I like the use of egg shapes in the umbilical cord ( or is that fallopian tube ) of dreams showing the germination of ideas, culminating in breaking free. (oop's, think I'm getting well above my station now.)

On the point your T made about the beautiful images, it's not just the flowers but beautiful women/woman and as this is a self portrait that has to be very positive.

 

[gdf]

What about free-flowing, beautiful long ribbons in your hair vs. the organic-looking tear shapes? But then maybe they are tear drops??

 

[Artista]

Nope... Nice thoughts though GDF! I am working on making the hair into petals... should have something in 2 weeks time. Am hoping to be completely done by then. I am off with my kids camping for the rest of this week. I hope to report another accomplishment after that as camp fires are a big trigger to me. Well, fire in general. The smell, the crackles, the heat... all have the potential to throw me into a flashback.

Wish me luck. I'll be self-talking and probably be exhausted when I get back!!!!!!! Will I hide in the cabin or sit with my kids and have smores???

When I get back, onto more of this painting!!