Saturday, December 31, 2022

MASTERING THE STARS for 2023

Mandala December 30, 2022 ©Lena Ghio, 2022 

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I was inspired late on how to MASTER THE STARS for 2022. My year ended, like it did for many of us, with limits imposed on me by external forces and health issues. So, I picked up a pen yesterday and worked on a mandala. 

What first appeared is the advancing triangular motif. Then the circle, the tree and my logo on top of the whole composition. It took a whole day to come up with the next one, the seeds. To resume, 2022 has reached fruition we must gather the seeds and plant them for 2023. The second mandala represents the seeds for the blessings of the coming year. Some are already sprouting.

When I began working in radio, I was taught by an aboriginal journalist, Gisèle Boisjoli. Every new year she made a weather calendar based on the first 12 days of the new year. As this memory rose in my consciousness I decided to use the same time frame for this exercise. 

Mandala December 31, 2022 ©Lena Ghio, 2022 


This New Year at midnight is quite magical! Venus in house 4 is approaching a conjunction with Pluto. This both brings healing power to the Earth and allows the healing force of the Earth to rise up where you stand. The approaching aspect makes it more powerful. Also, the exalted Moon in Taurus is approaching a trine to the Sun conjunct the Nadir from house 3. This Moon has the power to use energy to bring changes in the material world, the crux of what we call magic and what scientists call physics. Uranus, the planet that rules energy at its rawest form, is exalted in house 8 and biquintile the Ascendent, from my relativity at least. This means will can manipulate energy to bring about desired changes. 

I will be using the mandala and a tarot meditation for 12 days at midnight to focus intent on the good things I want to see in 2023 for myself and the world I live in. I will share the images as part of the process. If you want to share your images you can do so HERE.

You may choose to explore this line by joining in at midnight January 1, 2023 until January 13, 2023 at midnight. You may choose to do a mandala by drawing or painting or collaging. You may do a wish map where you put on a cardboard all the things you want in you life by collaging images that represent those things. You may create art, dance, music or poetry. Your alignment with the force of this time should give you the experience of how it operates in your life.

TO BE CONTINUED...

LENA GHIO   

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Tuesday, December 27, 2022

WATER, CONSCIOUSNESS and the prophecies of NOSTRADAMUS

Emerge Art © Lena Ghio, 2013

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WATER

The beginning of knowledge is sometimes whimsical. How I was enticed to explore scrying to make Emerge Art is totally fortuitous. It happened on a day I felt lost and felt that my life was going nowhere. July 23 2013 I intended to work on watercolors. I began the day setting up exercises to warm me up and spark my inspiration. I prepared an installation with several OMIs and a bowl of water. I have always been fascinated with the refraction of light and color in glass and water. I proceeded to sketch the composition when it occurred to me that I could photograph it and exercise from the photos. I got my camera, took several shots and proceeded to download the images so I could pick a few to work on. Suddenly an unexpected phenomena stunned me!

After a few weeks I developed a process of working with the photographs so the mysterious phenomena inside the water could be revealed. For the content to be visible I need to photograph the water without a flash. When I open the image with Photoshop the bowl can be quite dark. In the example below, you can see the five steps I took to reveal the final manifestation, the image of the puppy on top. I had noticed a vaguely white form resembling a dog inside the bowl before taking the photo, but it was only after the first screening that I was shocked to see that what I had observed in a flash was correct: there was a dog shape emerging from the water.


CONSCIOUSNESS 

« The brain is a tangible physical organ constituted from molecules; but that collection of molecules seems mockingly remote from the insubstantial, complex, transient thoughts that combine to endow us with conscious awareness. »

-Susan A. Greenfield
Journey to the center of the mind
© W.H. Freeman and company

In her insightful book, Susan A. Greenfield asks: "How exactly does nervous tissue cause consciousness?"

Today's technology is capable of observing very complex chemical and biological activity in the brain that reveal centers of consciousness and emotional states even social behavior. Yet what is that thing in us that allows us to comprehend, to reflect, to re-interpret what we learn?

If the only difference between the brain of an Albert Einstein and that of an average human is  molecular composition, it would be possible for all of us to become geniuses by supplementing our brains with the same molecules. We can all observe that while certain chemicals and nutrients will benefit the brain, it will not make us geniuses. Intelligence is more than mere biochemical processes, even if its expression in the human realm is dependent upon them.

It is in Susan A. Greenfield's book that I read about the ancient Greek concept that a «special consciousness substance» was the cause of intelligence and consciousness. In particular Galen (129-199); a renowned physician employed to treat gladiators in Rome, he treated many brain injuries and was among the first to recognize the importance of the brain as the center of thought;  who theorized that our mental faculties resided in the cerebrospinal fluid which he called the urine of the brain. This is the same fluid collected during lumbar punctures to diagnose various ailments of the body and brain. At that time the author wrote that the fluid contained nothing so special that it could be described as "psychic".

When I read Greenfield's book I was already familiar with flower essence therapy. In the 1930's Dr. Edward Bach discovered and developed a series of homeopathic treatments made from soaking flowers in water that healed emotional states and helped heal many physical ailments. The principle is that water retains the healing message from different flowers and then can transmit this message to us if we add a few drops of the essence to our drinking water. Each plant chosen by Bach has a different form, a different signature, and addresses a different negative emotional state.  It seemed natural to me that our individuality, our intellect, could emerge from the fluids surrounding our brain that looks like a flower on top of an elaborate stem, the spine, and is uniquely shaped in each one of us.

A while later, I was looking at the movie What the bleep do we know?  and was fascinated by the work of Japanese researcher Dr. Masaru Emoto on the molecular structure of water from different regions who, when exposed to various stimuli, created forms that reflected the ambience that surrounded it. His work proves the vitality of water, its intelligence and sensibility.



In my artistic practice I serendipitously stumbled upon the mysterious image making propensity of water. In this article I am showcasing this phenomena with the above video that shows the sequence of images that led to the final expressive face. Notice the similarity of the motion of light/frequencies/colours in water in the process of forging the final image with that of our own intellectual problem solving processes.

The Mermaid © Lena Ghio 2013

THE PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS

In the first two parts above, I describe the unusual phenomena I experienced with water and I resumed a research on what some scientists have thought about the connection between water and intelligence. In this last part, I will resume the importance of water in ancient cultures and myths using the works of CARL JUNG to bring a scientific perspective to it. The evidence I have gathered sheds an incredible new light on the knowledge of our ancestors.

When I was a child our parents took all of us to spend a day on a ferry boat. We had never been on a boat and we enjoyed hanging over the edge of the ramp staring at the shimmering blue water. I remember our mother telling us not to stare at the water lest it mesmerize us into falling into it. Before July 23 2013, water was just magical because I love swimming in it, I love drinking it, I love its versatility and mystery. I even had done tests with glasses of water and crystal balls that are posted on youtube. Yet I still saw water, like most people do, as an inert substance. Now I can't help seeing water as a complicated living entity capable of spontaneous and smart creation.

Before I continue, I must clarify that the studies I have done with water, that are now integrated in my artistic practice as EMERGE ART,  were not done for prophetic or religious purposes. I was inspired by the work of Dr. MASARU EMOTO to activate the water with a variety of colors, forms, words and other objects so I could then capture refraction in the water. The installation around the bowl of water does not represent a ritual to invoke invisible forces. However the water astonished me with a huge amount of unexplainable images that far transcend mere refraction! I did not expect water to create intricate storyboards that show intelligence and coherence like the one in the video.

Interested in the process of individuation, Carl Jung retraced the historical roots of multiple archetypes that to this day manifest in our dreams, our personalities and our lives; some belonged to religious practices, some to the mythology of certain civilisations, some to alchemy and astrology. There is a lot of material to go through to get at the wide range of knowledge Dr Jung accumulated. Here I wanted to underline that Dr Jung found that water was at the heart of most ancient religious myths, its creative qualities were described as being divine. In certain texts it was called the Word, the Logos. Jung also talks about the meaning of the mermaid as an archetype of the male psyche. The photo above begs the question of whether mermaids are a myth, a projection of the male psyche or an autonomous emergent form created by water? In modern humans, all these concerns are repressed in the unconscious mind. The mermaid archetype has now become an exotic dancer advertised in luminescent neon lights above gentlemen bars. According to Jung, the archetypes will always emerge in our lives in one form or another. I use this example to convey how prevalent archetypes are even in modern times.

Nostradamus seeing me © Lena Ghio 2013


The intriguing questions raised by Jung are the link to the prophecies of NOSTRADAMUS. According to the scant information we have on Nostradamus's process of divination, he used astrological calculations and gazed into a brass bowl filled with water to access the prophecies. From his nightly visions he composed quatrains. The video above illustrates how water is able tells a story. Nostradamus warned against the enchantments of mermaids and other forces living in water, admonishing that prophetic visions come from God alone. With Emerge Art I have presented to the world a feature of water that has always been dismissed by supposedly rational people and rightly so. We have developed technology to capture these fast moving phenomenon and now we can verify what we think we saw and others can verify the images objectively.

For years, as an artist,  I have been working through certain quatrains that applied to my life by analogy. It was clear to me that the intention behind the prophecies were of a healing nature. That was who Nostradamus was, a healer. My practice as an artist was entangled in his quatrains. Like most of us, I experienced indescribable trials and losses. Everything has led me to the acts of photographing a series of  the extraordinary phenomena that is scrying. The WORLD is speaking back to us now, reminding us who we are, ALL of us, EACH of us, are HER children.

 CENTURIES IV QUATRAIN 5
Croix paix soubs vn, accomply diuin verbe,
Espaigne & Gaule seront vnis ensemble,
Grand clade proche, & combat tresacerbe,
Cœur si hardy ne sera qui ne tremble.


Cross, peace, under one the divine word accomplished,
Spain and Gaul will be united together:
Great clade near, and combat very bitter:
No heart will be so hardy as not to tremble.

LENA GHIO   

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Wednesday, December 7, 2022

OPEN LETTER TO UKRAINE & Volodymyr Zelensky

Emerge Art Message For Ukraine, ©Lena Ghio, 2022    I present the image that spoke the clearest as a gif so you can see the steps to creation from water-light to me applying despeckle, sharpen and reduce noise to make the symbols appear clearly.  Images 1 and 2 are the build-up occurring in the water where the emerging dragon becomes amazingly clear. Image 3 is the clearest one revealing the Head of the Dragon and 4, 5, 6, 7 are the images that are processed as described above to make it easily visible for you.


Додаток перекладу УКРАЇНСЬКОЮ зліва
Dodatok perekladu UKRAYINSʹKOYU zliva
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The most deserving
man, BRAVO!!!

INTRODUCTION

The most disturbing event that occurred this year is Vladimir Putin and Russia invading Ukraine. Although I was not born during World War II but the actions of the Nazis and the industrial genocide of the Jewish people have haunted me all my life. I literally had nightmares of Hitler and I had a dream where my sister and I got shot down near a synagogue during WWII. Even as I write this the confluence of emotions I feel is intolerable. 

Since I am the GOAT of scrying, which I call Emerge Art because I am a transdisciplinary artist, I wanted to make an Emerge Art for the people of Ukraine and Volodymir Zelensky to let them know God had not abandoned them. I process Emerge Art following the rules of evidence allowed by the Law to present evidence in the court of law. Therefore, for those who have doubts there is corroborating proof of the authenticity of the symbols manifesting.

THE PRAYER

By turning this cropped portion 
in black and white we can see the
profile of a luminous white man 
wearing a hoody. 
The Man of light © Lena Ghio 2022
The way I do Emerge Art is that I write a letter to Spirit. I put the paper on which my prayer is written under or close to the bowl of water. Here is what I wrote:

Dearest God,
I pray you will shine a message of Divine support for the country and people of Ukraine.
Thank You Spirit
Lena Ghio

INTERPRETATION OF THE SYMBOLS

In this cropped portion,
the soldier © 
As you may observe when looking at the photos for the first time the symbols are transparent and blend with the installation behind the bowl of water-light. 

The first symbol that popped out clearly is the Head of the dragon. This was quite perplexing. I researched for the meaning of this symbol. At first I could not make out the Man of light looking at the soldier

The Head of the dragon emerges from the head of The Man of light

The dragon symbol

P. 415  Racine de la conscience by Carl Jung:

« The head of the dragon that “lives forever”, is called “vita gloriosa” (basically the life of the blessed) and “the angels serve it. The caput draconis is evidently identified here with Christ, as "angeli serviunt ei" ( angels serve him) and refers unmistakably to Matthew., iv, ii, where Christ has just repelled Satan. »

Gold dragons were the strongest and most majestic of the metallic dragons, and were considered the apex of the draconic race. "

As I purify the image of the dragon, a golden hue manifests. I also read about the black dragon on this site from which I took the excerpts below.

" The black dragon spirit animal symbolizes unmatched strength and might. No other mythological creatures can match the indomitable presence and overwhelming power of the dragon."

Another interpretation of the beneficial influence of the Gold Dragon here.

" In the Hebrew Bible Yahweh, (the ancient name for God), is often depicted as a divine warrior executing vengeance against his enemies. Some of these texts employ the image of Yahweh as a dragon-like creature who pours forth smoke from his nostrils and fire from his mouth. " This quote is from the scholarly article 

Yahweh the Dragon: Exploring a Neglected Biblical Metaphor for the Divine Warrior and the Translation of ’Ap

In other words, I can conclude that the message I prayed for for Ukraine came through. The final symbol I see is a brush appearing on the left of the dragon from our perspective. The meaning of this symbol is that there will be a lot of cleaning up to do but the tools are there to accomplish the task.

I PRAY WITH ALL MY HEART THAT THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE MAY BE UPLIFTED BY THIS EMERGE ART  AND THAT THIS HORRIFIC WAR WILL END ASAP!

LENA GHIO   

Monday, December 5, 2022

MONTRÉAL en décembre!


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LE QUARTIER DES SPECTACLES

Les Diamants-Luminothéra…es © JALQ Photography
Décembre commence en beauté cette année! J'ai vu la lumière, l'excellence artistique, la charité manifeste et un clin d'oeil sur ce qui s'en vient plus bas.

Ce 1er décembre je me suis rendue au dévoilement des installations LUMINOTHÉRAPIE au Quartier des Spectacles  au coeur de Montréal. En se dirigeant vers la patinoire AU BORD DU LAC TRANQUILLE, vous découvrirez des oeuvres lumineuses colorées et sonores. L'interactivité est évidente dans beaucoup d'œuvres où vous contrôlez la musique, la couleur et l'enchaînement lumineux des pièces.

Comme le montre la petite vidéo que j'ai prise plus haut, les installations sont chaleureuses et vous y trouverez tout ce dont vous avez besoin pour passer un moment merveilleux avec famille ou ami(e)s. 

Vous verrez le calendrier des activités proposées chaque jour ICI. a

AU BORD DU LAC TRANQUILLE

Présenté dans le cadre de la 13e édition de Luminothérapie

Du 1er décembre 2022 au 5 mars 2023 à l’esplanade Tranquille

•Accès gratuit, tous les jours à 18 h 30 et 20 h 30*

*Horaire sujet à changement les vendredis.

HORAIRE DE LA PATINOIRE DE L’ESPLANADE TRANQUILLE

Dimanche au mercredi : 9 h à 22 h

Jeudi au samedi : 9 h à 23 h

•L’accès à la patinoire est gratuit.•Cet horaire peut être modifié selon les conditions météorologiques ou la programmation événementielle. •Consultez l'horaire détaillé et les détails de la programmation sur : quartierdesspectacles.com/esplanadetranquille.

LES LAURÉATES DES PRIX PIERRE-AYOT ET LOUIS-COMTOIS

Michelle Bui reçoit le prix Pierre-Ayot en compagnie de Karen Elaine Spencer qui a reçu le prix Louis Comtois
Photo © Lena Ghio , 2022

J'ai assisté au dévoilement de ces deux Lauréates ce 1er décembre au Coeur des sciences de l'UQAM.

FÉLICITATIONS!

Voici les détails écrit par Chantal L'Heureux réalisatrice de l'émission In Situ à Radio Centre Ville:

« Félicitations aux lauréates des prix Pierre-Ayot et Louis-Comtois ! !
Le prix Pierre-Ayot 2022(bourse de 5000 $), qui souligne la démarche artistique de jeunes artistes en arts visuels de moins de 35 ans, a été remis à la photographe MICHELLE BUI. inspirée par la thématique de l'identité, dans le contexte de la société de consommation. qui impose une surcharge sensorielle d'images.

Le prix Louis Comtois (bourse de 7500 $) qui souligne la production d'un(e) artiste, dont la pratique se démarque depuis les 15 dernières années, dans le domaine de l'art contemporain, a été décerné à Karen Elaine Spencer. L'artiste explore la zone existant entre le monde perçu et celui qu'elle souhaite construire, en ayant recours à une méthodologie performative. »

LE BONHEUR DE DONNER

Les femmes qui vivent chez Mission Old Brewery pour elles, le Pavillon Patricia Mackenzie, en train de chercher le manteau qu'il leur faut.    Photo © Lena Ghio , 2022

Le 5 décembre, je me suis rendue à la remise officielle des manteaux récoltés au Murs de la gentillesse le mois passé. Ce merveilleux efforts à venir au secours des gens sans abris est une collaboration fructueuse entre Renaissance et Mission Old Brewery. Étaient présent pour accueillir les dames Mme Mathilde Fortuné, directrice des services aux femmes, Mission Old Brewery; M. James Hughes, président et chef de la direction Mission Old Brewery et M. Éric St-Arnaud, directeur général de Renaissance.

J'ai appris qu'à Montréal durant ces soirs hivernales près de 4000 personnes dormiront à ciel ouvert ou dans des coins publiques. 1000 de ces personnes sont des femmes. Cependant, il fait chaud au coeur qu'avec ces deux organismes, et ensemble, on peut alléger la cruauté de cette situation.

Mission Old Brewery reçoit les dons en tout temps. On nous a spécifié certains items qui sont crucial pour survivre le froid Canadien: chapeaux, gants, foulards, sous-vêtements, bas et bottes! Si vous en avez qui ne servent plus, faites les revivre sur une personne en besoin.

Une note importante de la part de M. James Hughes: Si vous voyez une personne sans abris en détresse, SVP, appelez 911

Photo © Lena Ghio , 2022 


EN PARLANT DE CADEAU:


Le Salon des Métiers d'Art ouvre ses portes ce 8 décembre et ce jusqu'au 18 décembre pour vous offrir des oeuvres et des objets faits
à la main par des artisans de chez nous!

Vous y trouverez de tout: des gants, des sac à main, des bijoux, des vases, des jouets et beaucoup plus. En plus de visiter les kiosques festifs vous pourrez faire vos achats du temps des fêtes!

Bien noté que cette année le Salon des Métiers d'Art  se déroulera au Stade Olympique.

Allez-y en bonne compagnie et Passez un temps des fêtes enchanté!


Monday, November 28, 2022

Jean-Claude Poitras • 50 ans de carrière • Galerie Québécor 21 novembre 2022 > 28 février 2023

 

Vous pouvez reconnaître Jean-Claude Poitras un créateur pluridisciplinaire entouré d'ami(e)s et de collaborateurs qui portent des vêtements de sa collection de mode. Photo © Lena Ghio , 2022

Un magnifique design
de 
Jean-Claude Poitras 
Photo © Lena Ghio , 2022
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Jean-Claude Poitras célèbre 50 ans de carrière en 2022. Pour souligner cet achèvement extraordinaire, Québecor a invité le créateur a réalisé une exposition dans sa Galerie Espace Musée située au rez-de-chaussée de son nouvel édifice.

Lors du vernissage, le créateur était très ému et le tout Montréal s'est rendu à l'exposition pour lui rendre hommage. Il a oeuvré dans tellement de domaine allant de la couture à l'art à la création de délices culinaires. 

L'exposition présente ses croquis, ses toiles multimédias, ses designs de haute couture et plus. Quel bel achèvement!

La visite est gratuite et si vous cherchez une idée cadeau pour Noël vous serez ravi(e)s de savoir que vous pouvez acquérir une oeuvre sur le site où commander une de ses création de haute couture!

Tous les détails sont à la Galerie Espace Musée a située au 612 rue Saint-Jacques à Montréal.
FÉLICITATIONS!

LENA GHIO   

Quelques ami(e)s de Jean-Claude Poitras de gauche à droite: Denis Gagnon, designer, Corinne Asseral, directrice Galerie 203, l'éternelle Patsy Gallant et une amie. Photo © Lena Ghio , 2022


EMERGENCY DECLARATION

TRAILER
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Korean cinema is impressing me more and more by the use of intriguing and surprising structures of action within the overall action of the movie.

This story is about a disgruntled scientists who perpetrates a biological terrorist attack on a plane heading for Hawaii. From the beginning the cast of characters is introduced to us by entangling brief encounters. 

The result of the cat and mouse way of revealing the dangers to be faced by the characters is very effective and the build up of tension very rhythmic taking us from one tension filled situation to the next to the most dangerous place of all, inside the plane.

One of the stars is Song Kang-Ho who made a name for himself in North America with his role the Academy Award winning film Parasite

The film is written and directed by Han Jae-rim who is himself a well recognized filmmaker.

This exciting action thriller hits Digital, Blu-ray & DVD November 29.  

LENA GHIO   

Thursday, November 24, 2022

Raymonde April Traversée • 1700 LA POSTE • jusqu'au 18 décembre 2022

Raymonde April avec Autoportrait à la porte de l'atelier, 1981 •  Photo © Lena Ghio , 2022

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Quel plaisir de passer un moment en compagnie de Raymonde April, artiste en art visuel qui explore la photographie depuis toujours. C'est elle-même qui a choisi les oeuvres présentées. On suit son parcours depuis sa jeunesse, jusqu'au Indes et à aujourd'hui. 

On remarque deux éléments de sa méthode de travail. Le premier concerne les images qu'elle capture sur le vif quand elle voit une scène qu'elle trouve méritoire. Un example de cette approche est Nouvelle amie, 26 janvier 2019, une image où on voit un oiseau devant une fenêtre alors qu'il regarde la ville. et la mise en scène qui devient expressive d'un contenu intérieur. Sa deuxième approche est bien illustrée par l'oeuvre derrière elle dans la photo de l'entête Autoportrait à la porte de l'atelier, 1981.

Ce qui m'a fascinée dans le parcours de cette exposition au 1700 La Poste c'est comment les images et les récits m'étaient familiers, comme si l'artiste était un membre de ma famille et qu'on partageait des souvenirs de nos vies. En effet on voit des images de ses ami(e)s, de ses amants, de ses espaces privés et cela nous ressemble.

Raymonde April présente certaines de ses photos de façon originale. Dans le "coffre-fort" elle présente Brasier, Mazgaon, 22 janvier 2013 qui est constituer de 22 impressions au jet d'encre sur Tyvek qui sont installées sur une table et qu'on regarde comme un livre immense.

Dans le sous-sol on peut voir un film de 38 minutes réalisé par Bruno Bouliane dans lequel l'artiste nous raconte qui elle est, son parcours, les lieux où elle a vécue. ICI, deux capsules vidéos qui vous donneront un sens de deux dames,  Raymonde April et Isabelle de Mévius, fondatrice de 1700 La Poste , qui se sont unies pour parler de l'art. 

« Raymonde April : traversée »

  • Du 7 octobre au 18 décembre 2022
  • Entrée libre
  • Du mercredi au dimanche
  • De 11 h à 18 h
  • 1700 La Poste
  • 1700, rue Notre-Dame Ouest
  • Montréal (Québec) H3J 1M3

LENA GHIO   

Raymonde April présente son travail.  Photo © Lena Ghio , 2022