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"The mystics speak in a hundred different ways, but if God is one and the Way is one, how could their meaning be other than one? What appears in different disguises is one essence. A variety of forms but a unity of substance." - Rumi
 As Above So Below - Let it Be
There's a Ribbon in the Sky for our Love"- Stevie Wonder
This piece came from the ideas of the US TV show
Maiia: - I've been absolutely enjoying the show - and the international collaborative art project has co-create and collaborate in visual representation of the theme- Bridging Heaven and Earth. Make concept reality
 I began with the idea of a mandala, unity and balance.
Sky or water depending on perception - looking up - or down to sky reflected on water.
It was fun to recognise it is multi-dimensional, there is no set 'way' Like a puzzle it can be arranged and rearranged.... experienced and experienced anew...
One of the bolder ways the piece forms is with the pizzazz, with a bit of razzamatazz...
(below) as explored in the Peacock- it's lovely -the 'Pizzaz' as Czikszentmihalyi says.
Yet existing within the razzamatazz is also original innocence, natural and uncontrived, at peace, the simpler layout - (above) where the upper and lower forms are reflection each other.
"God is your mirror in which you contemplate yourself and you are His mirror in which he contemplates his divine attributes." LBN Arabi
Or as a translation of Rumi put it "God said: "To reveal the secrets of my abundant love, i created a mirror whose face is consciousness and whose back is the world."
Another mirroring piece, on earth as it is in heaven, from Rumi is... "You've no idea how hard i've looked for a gift to bring you. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to a gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything i came up with was like taking spices to the orient. It's no good giving my heart and soul you already have these. - So - I've bought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me."
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