ARTIST STATEMENT

My collection embodies everything that I revere as a human being and an artist. The series of painted Buddha sculptures bathed in Swarovski Crystals, and every part of who I am is about love and happiness.

What holds my interest is the question of the inner being.  What is our journey and how can we become the pure positive energy that we were, before we came onto Mother Earth to experience life as physical beings.  How can we advance to a life of truth, goodness, and love.  It has been my greatest gift to discover this quest through spiritual practice and through this, to understand that we live in "two" simultaneous worlds: the physical and the spiritual.  We are so familiar with and focused on acting in the physical world that any other kind of action in the spiritual world is hard to fathom.  Because of our preoccupation with physical activity in which we appear to cause effects in people and events around us, we overlook the vital necessity to comprehend how and why we must perform actions in the spiritual world.  But in hundred years from now it will be vitally important not only what we accomplished in our earthly existence, but also what we did in the spiritual realm.  My challenge has always been (and still is at times) how to marry these worlds without the feeling of guilt?  But I have learned that as long as I allow myself to stay true to my inner being by feeling pure positive energy and finding happiness in all that is,  these two worlds could never be a contradiction but a union. And so are my pieces. A fusion of worldly pleasures and spiritual insights.

I have embarked on this journey many years ago in Bali, a place where  love is the only energy to be found.  Bali is also the source of my pieces.  People in Bali choose to walk through life with a wide-open and pure heart.  And they just are.  In smiles or tears, in movement or stillness, in happiness or sadness, but always content with what is, knowing that contrast is the only path to inner growth. They understand that it is during times of hardship where our desires and goals are set into motion.  And they know that only the mind creates the world; that what you see arises with your thoughts and if you speak and act with a confused mind, trouble will follow you as certainly as a cart follows the ox that pulls it.  But if you speak with a clear mind, happiness will follow you as certainly as your own shadow in sunlight.

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking. The mind falls in love with itself, and this amazing passionate love affair is the foundation of all. It creates out of a space that is so unlimited in its self-love that it doesn’t ever have to be told or proven or seen.

It is its own experience. And it’s happy—in that all.  

With LOVE, Metis