Gateway to 5D Gameboard
2018
Acrylic, pencil, gesso, processed acid-free drawing paper, glue, plywood, recycled table top
27 x 27 x 1 inches
A Native American symbol meaning “the energies, work in the physical and spiritual senses” splits “Gateway to 5D Gameboard” into interactive sections. The bottom row of three images represents the physical parts of our lives. The middle row of three images represents spiritual work. The upper row of three images represents spiritual realms. Vertically, the middle column also represents the chakras and the combining of Earth and Cosmic energies.
In the bottom left section, the one with the woman in the bikini, there’s a beach ball in the shape of a developing fertilized human egg. There’s also a sperm flying in the air. This section represents sex, reproduction, and birth. Going to the right, the soldier represents war, and therefore competition and power games — i.e., the realm of the ego. The micrograph image of bone to the right of that represents death. So the bottom row represents the physical, or lower chakra, interests: a cycle of birth, ego, and death.
The middle row represents work in developing our spiritual awareness, so the Egyptian hieroglyphs represent ancient teachings. The ancient Egyptians were very concerned with what happens to us after death and developed various practices to prepare for this eventuality. Many of these practices have filtered down to us through various traditions. The Snow Lion on the right side of the middle row represents Buddhism, another tradition that has developed many insights about what is really going on with our lives, offering various forms of work to merge the physical and spiritual aspects of our lives, and helping us become more enlightened about things. Included with the Snow Lion are images from the Indus Valley civilization which predates Buddhism by a couple of millennia. The sun is in the center of the painting because it is the source of both light and life on Earth and is literally in the center of our solar system. Here the sun also represents inspiration, electricity, enlightenment, oneness, etc. The central vertical column of three images in the painting represents the central core of our bodies, and the sun in the painting also represents the heart, midway between the lower and upper chakras.
The whirling Sufi dervishes represent people who have developed spiritually and are living in relative harmony and awareness with their fellow beings while being here on Earth. The garden represents the idea that our thoughts are largely the elements that create our worlds and we can make our worlds be beautiful gardens (“the garden of Eden”, etc.) or we can think ourselves back down to the level of competition and unnecessary suffering. The nebula at the top right represents cosmic wisdom and higher dimensional awareness. Note that the garden to its left has a closed gate, representing being barred from getting to the higher dimensions. But also note that the gate isn’t actually shut, it just appears to be.