Chaos & Trust Theory - Gabrielle Naptali 2012
In the oscillating space between, where intricate patterns repeat and evolve; the airbourne drawings made by fluttering leaf tips and the flight and landings of birds. The movements of our journeys as we make the marks of our days, place to place, person to person; every interaction leaves patterns in its wake, breathes echoes in space. Every spoken word and tiny sound hovers, undulates in the air. 
Trust is that the right echoes are left at the right point in time to vibrate the air waves for those that next pass by. 

God's drawing board, with 24 petals, on which we can reinvent and learn to trust ourselves.

Documenting life changing events i created my own symbolism in the petals of a (lotus) flower that make up who i have become (so far).  I've been blessed with a very long memory; I only know of two other people who remember being born, so i delved back into those to turn over the feelings and their residual damage or in fact leaps inspiration and growth. Through meditation on these i spent time digging down to re-experience physical and emotional traumas and to consciously rewrite them through the guaranteed silver lining

A - H = range of spiritual traditions + no 6, Medicine Wheel of Native traditions (features in both). 1 - 17= personal symbolism relating to life enhancing or life changing experiences. The connecting threads i traced through all these spiritual traditions is LOVE and caring for others.

In the autumn and winter of 2012 - I began to put together a piece of work which would evolve into a visual documentation of my own healing and inner process. After having a devastating event exactly repeat in my life I had to get to the bottom of  what, in me, was causing this. I 'asked' in desperation, for a mentor and one came. I had thought they would be an art mentor, but as it happened this wasn't just about my artwork, but the deepest kind of awakening.  I awoke. My senses became radically heightened, tuned into the pure energy of life and the emotions of others. I could physically sense and even see aliveness in everything, the space between the molecules that make up matter and i began to experience new sensitivity through my senses. Planes of existence became thinner and i experienced movement, an understanding and presence of the existence of beings on other planes.
I spent the days and months that followed exploring the Universe within and documenting the experience/s in emails and notebooks.  I could see that i was being presented with an opportunity for radical growth. But to do this i needed to explore my personal damage, meet it face to face and expel it from my being.
It occurred to me that as i look for the innate strand of truth in myself, that this will turn up (some of?) the widest truths and i wanted to share them in order for them to become embedded and (for me) to become my most authentic Self. And hope that others may also benefit from this type of healing.

Google Earth, St Columba's by Temple Moore, Peace Dove

I started formulating drawings and writing and an idea i'd had in the summer of 2011 at the in Venice Biennalle - as the destruction was forming (unbeknownst to me) rose up and began to clarify in the back of my mind. I looked at the world's spiritual traditions as my starting point and took the singlt thread that unites (almost) every one ~ *Love* ~
I chose Coastival 2012 and St Columba's, my mother's church in Scarborough as the first venue, starting point for the tour, as I am the daughter and granddaughter of CofE former ministers and although not a Christian, i see that all spiritual traditions teach the same things but using different words. Completion 9 explored this theory and those threads.

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Heartberg recognises that the heart has its own consciousness, capable of incredible feats of communication and healing. Two fresh samples of different hearts, in adjacent petrie dishes continue to to beat and in seconds synchronise their pulse. This is also true for animal hearts

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The Body

Yoga, Running, Tai Chi and Meditation

Body parts - Finding these centres in the body through activity brought clarity. Triad; Heart - Heartberg, Body - SHI and Spirit - Pineal Pine Cone, in the Lady Chapel; St Columbas' CofE Church for Coastival 2012

Projection of the sky though beech trees, swirling colour & white light; Body, Mind and Spirit.

Anagram of hanging petals. Each petal has a letter with which to rewrite your story.

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SHI - (maquette) - The Ocean of Vitality. The space within/the body vibrates during chanting is awoken.

http://themindunleashed.org/2014/03/train-brain-let-go-habits-10-methods-creating-new-neural-pathways.html

The Mind

Exploring Understanding, what is Truth

The Empty Bowl. Every void will be filled, clear a space in the garden and immediately life will fill it.. Look carefully to what you plant.

Pine Cone - Pineal Gland features in symbolism of most spiritual traditions. The

http://www.spiritualcompetency.com/blackboard/lessons/types/kundalinitype.htm

The Spirit

What is Missing, Ignored, Squashed or Presumed...?

I felt and literally touched The OM, The vibration, the starting point of everything. The form here shows the point at what vibration becomes matter - the science of cymatics. 'In the beginning was the word' The first manifestation of Creation. The vibration is the lowest of frequencies.

Splitting Seed as Nature's silver lining - emergence of the inner child.

Dutch House Yorkshire was in the early spring of 2012.  Selected as a 'healing' space because of the environmental and wildlife conscious emphasis of the venue  - THIS PAGE IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION - THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE :)

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