I have always had a fascination with the sky. I’m one of those people that feel like the sky talks. I’ve always looked at the sky and nature and believed there was a story being told there. Whether it’s the way the clouds take shape and float across my field of vision at just this moment, the way wind picks my hair up and brushes it across my cheek, or the way the stars twinkle just when I tilt my head to look at them, it's a story to me and it never gets boring. I pay attention and try to understand. But I don’t get hung up on it because I know somewhere deep down, I already understand the story and putting it into words isn’t really necessary. I never tire of it though, especially the stars and planets.
This week's lunar eclipse is significant because it also happens to be a Full Super Moon in the sign of Aries. "Red Moon, Rise" painting by Stephanie Weiss (also me) For Sale
Artistically, I never tire of the cosmos. It is an aesthetic that feels like home to me, even more so than my actual home, which is funny. I can’t not paint the stars now. It has become a sort of signature and my only real skill-type goal as an artist is to paint better stars and skies.
Lately, I’ve been asked a lot about some of my more recent paintings, especially my trees against the night sky. “These are very beautiful, but why the dead trees?” people ask. Well, I like this aesthetic, actually. But um...they’re not dead. They’re dormant. I see them as unrealized potential. I see them as sleeping or maybe they’re meditating. They’re definitely listening and observing. They’re lots of things, but they are not dead. Not to me. Personally, I believe them to be communing with the heavens. I believe them to be receiving messages and quietly passing them on to us. They are most definitely teaching us, but in a super subtle way. They are setting a quiet example and softly asking us to listen.
"Solitude" painting by Stephanie Weiss (me again) SOLD
In my own subtle kind of way, I guess what I am saying that we are the trees. We are the students and we are the teachers. We’re not dead, but a lot of us are dormant. We’re unrealized potential. There are a lot of similarities between the trees I paint and the unrealized potential of our individual and collective human experience. Imagine the world we’d live in if we just followed the example of these tree teachers and took the time to sit quietly under the sky each day. Anyone who does this will undoubtedly believe a better world is possible.
But it starts with turning off the noise. What noise, you ask? Well, I’m going to say the noise is most major media and news outlets. This stuff is garbage and it you step away, even for a time, you can go back and look at how awful, fake, purposefully divisive, and dumbed-down it all is. We are being brainwashed by this nonsense. So yeah, all that fits into that, turn that shit off. It starts there. It starts by turning that off and turning on nature. That's what I know. Sitting quietly and listening to the messages that come. It might take practice, but the messages will come. What kinds of messages, you ask? That’s not for me to say. But what I can say is that I get messages all the time and in various forms. (I’ll go into this another time, but numbers are a big one for me, I see crazy number patterns EVERY where, which I believe are signs of the universe encouraging me.) What I do know is that when I follow these messages, good things happen in my life and the world around me. I can’t explain these things but I’m learning that I don’t need to. We live in a world where what we focus on and put our energy into becomes reality. This is what magic is, friends, and it’s completely up to us. We already know the world we live in now is hurting. Our focus has been on what separates us and we are making creating more of that. We can put our energy into pointing this out and sharing all the scary things in the world with everyone we know, simultaneously bringing the energy of the planet down with fear, OR we can start sharing the best of ourselves and start bringing the energy up with love. Don’t care about the planet? You don’t need to! Just care about yourself and the rest happens on its own. It’s really that easy. It’s not sometimes, actually..… But, yes. Yes, it is. I believe it’s possible and I’m trying to be more conscious of it. That's all I'm getting at, really. Be more conscious. Nobody’s perfect and that’s OK, but we can try. I think it’s worth trying. Good grief our lives and the lives of our children are worth trying for, yes?
That’s all I’ve got for today, everybody. Peace out and billions of Namastes to you :)
"Red Tree" painting by Stephanie Weiss (hi, it's me) SOLD