Another short video from our friends over at http://www.poeticmind.co.uk/ !
This short film suggests that Heaven is not a place but rather a state of being, where you decide what you wish your life to be next. The purpose of the film is to inspire you to remember the power of intent, and use your true essence to change your life for the better.
The poem in the film was channelled in a strong moment of such ‘Heaven’ when Gil allowed his heart to open up to the messages of Natalie’s paintings and their inspiring colours.
The paintings were created by Natalie using the encaustic wax technique. This technique helps to connect on intuitive level to emotions and thoughts, that we usually tend to ignore. This technique of wax modelled with heat, allows for a free flow of lines and shapes, as the wax melts unto the card in the process of making the painting. This means that the wax ‘dictates’ the shapes more than the artist would. In such way the process helps the artist to arrive at a state of free expression unaffected by the usual obstacles in paintings that takes away from inspiration.
Within a free flowing state (Heaven), Natalie connected to the three Spirit Guides, which this film is dedicated to, and which inspired and directed her artistic hands in creating the paintings.
Q/A:
Q-- You mentioned that Heaven can be seen as a state of mind, but how this connects to colours, as your title reads ‘The Colours of Heaven’?
A-- While Heaven is a state of minds, colours gives that state a value, a physical representation in the physical world.
Q-- In what way the poem was inspired by the paintings?
A-- The poem uses words taken from the titles of the paintings. In a way, the words were a given, a cloud of knowledge that was given along with the paintings. Each painting was permeated with a thought that brought the best result in a visual form and in word-like appearance. Gil, then collected the words, and meditated on the meanings of the paintings, to create the complete story of the poem. The story is all about the value of the energy that it represents, the emotional message that was flowing from the paintings to the words.
Q-- Why do you create art at all?
A-- The purpose of art for us is to learn to trust ourselves. To trust that whatever comes out in life is the true essence of you that has long been waiting to be expressed in your life Art making is a process of healing and acquiring the knowledge and acceptance that things unacknowledged within us are still there, and they are growing and blossoming until one day they demand to be expressed in life... and when they manifest they do so in whatever way is best for creating a balance and harmony in the life of the person. Creating art is simply an act of acknowledging our innate ability to stop the judgemental, and instead to allow free expression to take place. And that is healing.
Q-- From a filmic point of view, why the paintings are moving (pan and zoom) across the screen, while the text of the poem remains still?
A-- While we live in a world of time and space science already sees time as relative thing. In effect time has been described as mental activity that operates in the mind of people, and not in reality (see Einstein, Descartes, and Immanuel Kant). When we create art, or meditate, we sometimes experience ‘no time’ at all, which we believe is the true state of reality. So, in the film we argue that one can make decision of what to be next in his life - one is shifting, evolving, blossoming into the next level. This happens in a time frame, so we represented that by creating movement of the paintings in the film. Movement is within time. And yet, the main message is ultimately the same - the experience of Who We Are, as the poem ends, is the same no matter whatever form and shape we choose it to be, because the ultimate experience is sublime and far more than any form and shape that we can experience in this world. Hence we chose to visually keep the core message, the text of the poem, in a static non-moving form in the film.
Dec 2014
