A New Artwork Project: The Gold Series

How does gold make you feel?

Our Relationships to Color

Color is a part of our daily lives. Color is often used as a tool of communication. At one point in time, we used color as a necessary tool to communicate our community, roles, boundaries, celebrations, and in preparation for battle. As we grew and found more safety as a society, our relationship to color changed. We began to use color as a form of expression. We created a new understanding and agreements as to what colors represented for quick and easy communication with one another. For example: Red = Power. Green = Growth.

As a society, we have always had a fascination with gold. It has represented power, money, wealth, freedom, and healing. As a status symbol, gold has been something people always want to obtain and display. This is very much the expression our bodies ideas and agreements about the color gold.

In spirit, gold is a vibration of energy - as all color is. Beyond the bodies meanings, color is unique in how it makes us feel. That feeling is unique to you and maybe different from the person next to you. That feeling we get from looking at color is a level of communication that goes beyond skin deep; beyond the surface. It is a communication with the spirit of who we are.

When you come across a color, you are in communication with your own relationship to that color. Sometimes that experience feels like the very feeling you’ve been looking for - when you see a color you love! Sometimes that experience is strange and foreign - when you don’t know what to do with a color, feel confused, or a sense of complexity inside. Other times that experience may show up as resistance - you have a strong feeling of dislike for that color. These are few examples, your experience is your own, which can include being speechless.

This art project explores our relationship to gold. Each piece stimulates your personal relationship with each new tone of gold. As you explore the gallery, notice how you feel looking at or being close to each piece. What feelings arise? What memories? Who do you suddenly think of in that moment? Every reaction is a piece of your own personal relationship with gold. What if this relationship is what you’ve been looking to have and not the material status of gold? Take a moment to explore.

“You are an alchemist. Make gold of that.” - William Shakespeare

Gallery Instructions: Come close to the art. Notice your senses, your feelings, emotions, and thoughts. Does that change as you move through the spectrums of gold in this series? Do somethings stay throughout? What questions arise? Explore your relationship with the energy of gold.

More coming soon….