by Dawn Patel | Dec 10, 2018 | ancestor dress, ancestry cloth, art, art as initiation, art is a mirror, art process, artist, awakening, Brilliant Stranger, embodiment, non-duality, performance, women's circles
This is the Cloak I began early this year, at that time I was calling it “Cape.” I went to an artist’s residency in Mexico with the intention of making a fiber cocoon, in which to perform my embodiment process. What I ended up making was a wearable...
by Dawn Patel | Mar 20, 2017 | artists process, Brilliant Stranger, consciousness, creative process, i am usha, parallel universe, Sentient Potential, sentient space, sentient universe, spirituality, unseen world, usha
I woke up this morning thinking two things. 1. I really should start working on an artist’s statement for “I Am Usha.”2. I am at an age where many people have reached the top of their field.And then, as I so often like to do, I completely deconstructed both of...
by Dawn Patel | Mar 11, 2017 | allegorical painting, art, being human, Brilliant Stranger, dawn patel art, faith, hermit life, hope, jung, nervous breakdown, painting, tension of opposites, visionary art
The Prophet by Kahlil GibranAnd a woman spoke, saying Tell us of Pain.And he said:Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in...
by Dawn Patel | Feb 8, 2017 | allegorical painting, ancestors, art, art and nature, art process, Brilliant Stranger, female power, feminine energy, visionary art, visionary painting, women
I sometimes hear voices. I kept pretty quiet about that my entire life, because, well, I was afraid of being judged by minds that do not understand such things. This has been a month of letting go of fears… so that one’s gone too.In the early...
by Dawn Patel | Dec 25, 2016 | art and nature, Brilliant Stranger, conquering fear, dark times, darkness, dawn patel art, dreams, kali time, nature, relationship with nature, storytelling, visionary art, visionary painting, visions
In the earliest hours of morning our thoughts connect two worlds. Dreams open doors into a fluid world. In daylight the thick shell of the world hides from us from the truth we seek. We forget the stars are still there. This is my story of remembering. It is one of...
by Dawn Patel | Dec 12, 2016 | allegorical painting, ancestors, Brilliant Stranger, dawn patel art, kali, painting, refugees, usha. dark times, visionary art, visions
I have made two decisions this month.One is to leave paintings in their raw state.The Other is to share all of my visions, even the ones I have been quiet about.I don’t turn on a lightbulb. I see in the darkness and find my way through it.What i see in the dark,...
