Sacred Arts- Mixed Media Dialogues with the Divine Feminine
Galia Alena Galia Alena

Sacred Arts- Mixed Media Dialogues with the Divine Feminine

Sacred Arts- Mixed Media Dialogues with the Divine Feminine 13 mOOns- a year of In*Spiration

Each time I show up to the blank page or canvas it is to listen. Sometimes I come with an enquiry, sometimes I come just to see what wants to be heard, either way a dialogue unfolds and it is through this dialogue that I create art, that I commune with spirit, that I meet myself.

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The Flower is...the eternal seductiveness of life.
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The Flower is...the eternal seductiveness of life.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction.

It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

— Giraudoux

Producing this class has been a love affair- a love affair with each of the artists as I fell more and more in love with their work, a love affair with my garden in all it's winter glory, and a love affair with creating, with painting, with sketching, with pastels, with watercolours, with drawing- with the act of making art.

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Final Reflections on the Sketchbook Challenge- last 10 days
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Final Reflections on the Sketchbook Challenge- last 10 days

I've come to the end of this challenge and while I've loved the practice, I'm also really looking forward to liberating this sketchbook from the table with the camera and setting it free into the wild as a sketchbook should be. I'm also looking forward to some art journaling and am wondering how to incorporate both practices into my limited time. I'm also curious to see how some of things I've played with in my sketchbook will emerge on the journal page…

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Reflections on the Sketchbook Challenge- Days 11- 20
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Reflections on the Sketchbook Challenge- Days 11- 20

I'm 20 days into this challenge, and the craziest thing- I'm already contemplating my next challenge (more on that later)- I think I might need an intervention. What do you think? Meanwhile the yoga mat is somewhat neglected ;)

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Reflections on the Sketchbook Challenge- first 10 days
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Reflections on the Sketchbook Challenge- first 10 days

When I start these challenges I wonder about my sanity- committing to add something else to my already overflowing plate. Yet there is this way that the challenges push me to do a daily practice which I can not maintain daily except for these short stints. And with daily practice come growth, just a little, bit by bit growth, but it adds up; I don't see it daily but at the end of the 30 days there's a small body of work that stretched the muscles, found new ways and explored the edges.

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Sketchbook Challenge- Day 1
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Sketchbook Challenge- Day 1

I’ve begun another challenge- this time a Sketchbook Challenge.

Seems I like to start a new challenge when I’m life is getting busy, as if I won’t have time to show up to the blank page or canvas swept along by life. The challenge brings me to the page for practice, practice for practice’s sake, and experimentation, unencumbered by making a “piece”. ..

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iPhone Magic
Galia Alena Galia Alena

iPhone Magic

As a photographer, the question I get asked the most is “which camera should I buy?” and while the variety of options on the market from compact to dslr to mirrorless and so on may feel overwhelming the truth is that for most of my daily shooting practice, my personal practice, it is my iPhone that gets the biggest workout- it is convenient, it is always with me (more so for taking photos than taking calls ;) ) and the quality is quite astounding when you think about it.

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