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Touring Installation 2013-2016

CURRENT WORKSHOPS
Chaos & Trust Theory
In the oscillating space between, where intricate patterns repeat and evolve; the air bourn 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. 
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God's drawing board, with 24 petals, on which we can reinvent and learn to trust ourselves.
Documenting life changing events Gabrielle created her own symbolism in the petals of a (lotus) flower documenting her evolution.  Gabrielle has a very long memory; including recalling being born. The work delved into ancient memory, turned over feelings and their damage and growth, using techniques of meditation. 
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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.
The work was a visual documentation of personal healing and inner process, a deep awakening.  Radically heightened senses 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.  Planes of existence became thinner and I experienced movement 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 drawings, 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 the pain of 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 universal 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."

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Google Earth, St Columba's by Temple Moore, Peace Dove
Gabrielle formulated drawings and writing using the world's spiritual traditions as a starting point and the thread that unites; *Love* ~
Coastival and St Columba's, Gabrielle's mother's church in Scarborough was the first venue of the tour
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Heartberg recognises that the heart has its own hidden consciousness, capable of incredible feats of communication and healing
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=c_Sivc5tnH8C&pg=PT8&lpg=PT8&dq=Handbook+for+the+Urban+Warrior&source=bl&ots=tMB2OtjLQJ&sig=1xk6375yEzCFIUWS4-vC2DHAqhE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CGQQ6AEwD2oVChMI1cPtsc-yxwIVye4aCh0L0QFX#v=onepage&q=Handbook%20for%20the%20Urban%20Warrior&f=false

The Body

Exercise and Meditation
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Three pieces represent energy centres or tantiens (pronounced dandiens) Heart - Heartberg, Body - SHI and Spirit - Consciousness-Pine Cone in the Lady Chapel, St Columbas' CofE Church for Coastival Festival
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Projection of the sky though beech trees, swirling colour & white light; Body, Mind and Spirit.
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Anagram of hanging petals. Each petal has a letter with which to write
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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 inner truth
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The Empty Bowl. Every void will be filled, clear a space and life will fill it
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Pine Cone - features in the symbolism of most spiritual traditions
http://www.spiritualcompetency.com/blackboard/lessons/types/kundalinitype.htm

The Spirit

What is missing, ignored, squashed or presumed
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The OM, The vibration, the starting point of everything. The point that vibration becomes matter - present in cymatics. 'In the beginning was the word' The first manifestation of Creation. The vibration is the lowest of frequencies.
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Splitting Seed as Nature's silver lining - emergence
Outdoor exhibition at Dutch House Yorkshire, Crake, followed
http://www.dutchhouseyorkshire.com/
Shifting light enhances the physicality of the colourful, often marbled or iridescent glass and ceramic tiles. Gabrielle's pieces make new landmarks and present peaceful connection points, holding places of transition that offers the space for contemplation. 
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