This year I’m completing paintings that have been sitting unfinished in my studio. It’s taking a lot of discipline to not jump ahead and begin painting more recent visions and inspirations, without finishing what I’ve started (which is an annoying habit of mine). My guidance is crystal clear to complete and energetically close out past, lingering creative projects.
SOPHIA – the spark of light/life in all matter, the embodiment of Wisdom. The guiding principle of the materialization of spirit and the spiritualization of matter. (I started her in 2014. sigh).
I had written a couple of chapters on Sophia in the original draft of Facing the Depths, which were edited out later. The material may be published somewhere else in the future.
As I worked with my vision of the spark of light / star being that came through in a powerful vision in 2011, (which you can read about in my book), Sophia appeared as one of the archetypes associated with the vision. I did deep research in Gnostic scriptures to help me better understand the big energies carried by the otherworldly guide who came to me in a profoundly initiatory experience, which I describe in detail in the book.
I’m not sure I’m happy with the painting, but it feels done enough, and like it’s time to move on. That much is clear