One thing I have noticed that happens when I am on the right path is that the amount of synchronicity in my life seems to increase. I think of something or someone and then like magic it/they appear, or I need a resource or some information and it’s like it just drops out of the sky on me. I meet someone who is working on something that fits right in with what I or another friend are doing and I get to connect them right away. I love when this happens. It’s been happening a lot lately.
In addition to the book, which is a fairly new endeavor, I am on another quest. I have been working on a series of paintings about female divine images, looking for representations of female divinities and G*ddesses across cultures. The images that appear with these posts are some of the paintings that I am referring to. I plan to use these images in the book. (If you want to see more or learn more about that quest you can visit my art website @ www.nicolecutts.com).
So as luck would have it I have been doing some work at the Dept. of Energy in D.C. which is across the street from the Smithsonian Castle and the Museum of African Art. There is also a lovely garden here so I have been enjoying having a little time in between appointments to stroll around here. The other day when I passed the museum of African Art I saw this huge banner image out front with a picture of a black woman with a big black mane of hair with a snake coiled sensuously around her body. It was Mami Wata!
Mami Wata is a pantheon of water spirits or deities, venerated in West, Central, and Southern Africa, and in the African diaspora in the Caribbean and parts of North and South America. She is often described as a mermaid-like figure, with a woman’s upper body, and the hindquarters of a fish or serpent.
I have represented her in a few of the pieces from the G*ddess series and here she is, a whole exhibit until July! Ok, I’m pretty excited about this! I’ve been to visit two times already and have not seen the whole thing.
Of course now I want to get back in the studio because I have so many ideas that I want to get out. I have a few other pieces that I’ve been working out in my head too that have had to wait. So now my next challenge will be finding the time to get in there to bring some of these ideas to life.
It is really hard some time to just enjoy the journey and not stress out because I want to do it all at once. Balance? Still looking for it.
(first posted 4.19.09)
I’m really enjoying reading your blog. It sounds like fun. I am not sure what my vision is. I’m currently unemployed. In a way it stresses me but on the other hand it is giving me the freedom to think about what I really want to be doing. It seems like your vision is pretty clear to you. I want to hear from people like me too. I know I am not the only one who does not know what he wants to be when he grows up.