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This painting was challenging to materialize into existence. I was invited to do a live painting at Adelitas Revenge which theme was Tonantzin Divina: Our Divine Sacred Mother. I felt honored for the invitation, but it also felt like an enourmous task to create sommething that represents the life sustainer of all, Mother Earth. My first thought was how can I portray all that she is,that holds, all that she does for all life on earth in one image? It was daunting, for a moment I felt like nothing could contain her for she contains us, and could the energy of infinite love that she radiates be captured in a painting. Across cultures she is known by many names: Alpa Mama(Quechua), Tonantzin (Nahuatl), Unci Maka (Lakota), Gaia (Greek). This rendition carries symbols from the Andean cosmovision, painted in deep gratitude for the daily gifts she offers us.
Painted in watercolor, this work carries the very essence of water as sacred life source, blending pigment and spirit as an offering of gratitude, reverence, and remembrance for the one who sustains us all.
Description:
Alpa Mama is a sacred feminine energy embodied as the earth. She sustains all life on earth through her infinite love that she gives us through nourishment & shelter. Her skin the fertile brown of earth, inscribed with symbols of abundance, transformation, rebirth, and the four directions. Her lips become two mountains, cradling a lake where birds take flight. Surrounding her are saccred medicinal plants, which she placed here to help us remember and connect to who we are, that we too are sacred and come from the same source of life, all of us: animals, plants, insects, crystals, mountains, everything that is here on Earth. She wears a crown of Coca leaves and carries a bouqueet of Tobacco flowers.She holds a bouquet of tobacco flowers and a crown of coca leaves. Her hair is the water that flows over the earth. Draped over her head is a sky blanket where birds soar high to deliver messages between realms. Encircling her is the universe itself, reflections of the water create a path toward a tipi reminding us of our ancestors who left us the tools to communicate with all of creation ( our family).
Descripción:
Su piel morena como la tierra que es, llena de simbolismos que representan la fertilidad, abundancia, transformación, renacer, las 4 rumbos, sus labios dos montanñas a lado del un lago donde unos pájaros van volando. Al su alrededor plantas de poder, plantas medicinales, que ella puso aquí para ayudarnos a recordar quien somos, que nosotros también somos sagrados y venimos de la misma fuente de vida, todos nosotros; anímales, plantas, insectos, cristales, montañas, todo lo que está aquí en la tierra. Sostiene un ramo de flores de tobacco y su coronilla de hojas de coca. su cabello es el agua que corre sobre la tierra. Su manta el cielo donde los pájaros vuelan alto a mandar mensajes. Al su rededor el universo, reflejos del agua crean un camino hacia un tipi recordando nos de nuestros ancestros que nos dejaron con las herramientas para poder comunicarnos con toda la creación y así ser familia.