Inner-Well-Being
3D Mixed-Media Assemblage Artist’s Book (shown open)
Mixed-media: acrylic, graphite, rice paper, rag paper, linen thread, perspex, canvas, board, timber.
Exhibited and sold at Cairns Regional Gallery 2008 in Postcards – Hidden Treasures Exhibition. (Exhibiting artists by invitation only)
Symbols with some of their meanings, in Inner-Well-Being:
- Blue parallel lines/spatial dark background – signifies various planes/levels of hidden/secret passage; for the inner-life – meditative, space to go within and beyond for contemplation, reflection, privacy, nuturance, quiet-time, quest, soul renewal.
- Vessel/s – the well, representing the body, alchemy of polarity energies embodied within our ‘being’, shadows
- 9 (vessels) – symbol for ‘prayer’; time, cycles, representation of values
- Stitching – representing daily spirit activity, time, numbers, pathways
- Blue/Gold metallic colours – inner alchemy
- Open/Closed 3D object – receptive, passage, journey, transit, hidden, void, consciousness/non-consciousness states.
Inner-Well-Being belongs to the following groups:
Complex Simplicity of Art, Abstract Art, Acrylic Painting, All Around the Styles, All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Altered Art - Collage and Assemblage, Contemporary Professional Painters and Sculptors, Creative Spirits of Queensland , Creative, Talented, and Unknown, Fine Arts, Layered with Texture, Live, Love, Dream: , Mixed Media, Parallel Dimensions, Remodernist Painters' Group - 1/CALENDAR MONTH, Shameless Self-Promotion, Spiritual Art and Vibrant and Vivid Color Available for sale asGreeting Cards, Matted Prints, Laminated Prints, Mounted Prints, Canvas Prints and Framed Prints

AlteredIllusions
Great piece! Love the symbolism.
Kerryn Madsen... replied
Thanks. Glad you like.