Another full moon has passed, a spectacular solar eclipse looms, and I am noticing a pattern of circles popping up in my photos. Because I live too far south to witness this coming cosmic event, I decided to share my personal circular activity here on this blog. May we all celebrate the energy of circle, the essence of round. Dark and light, intense and subtle, large and small, this energy is about all of us. It IS all of us.
The full moon, the sun, planet Earth and all the planets in the cosmos, all are circles. Even our eyes with which we view them are circles. In exploring the concept of circle, I find it represents unity, wholeness and life cycles. Without beginning or end, it represents inclusivity and its affiliate number is one. We can imagine that when we sit within a circle, we are all equal, one and the same. Being inside the circle, we also feel the safety and protection from anything outside that zone. When someone says they’re in or out of their ‘comfort zone’ I picture that as a circle.
Here are some huipiles from the 365 4 2015 series, in which I made one small huipil every day in the year 2015. Looking back at them now from a different viewpoint, I wonder what led me to create so many circular forms.
The circular motion of joining hands says inclusivity. It takes all of us working together to bring balance to our Mother planet)
It’s not a crime to be Black. Living while black, driving, walking or any other daily event, it’s all part of a broken system that needs changing.
Occasionally a day goes just right, you come up with a solution that works, and the term for that sums it up in these circles.
Crushing the demon of ignorance, Shiva’s dance recalls
the cycles of birth, death and rebirth. All is circular.
This one is like “follow the money” when we’re trying to
understand how the world works. It’s not in “mysterious ways.”
We all wish for miracles, and maybe they do happen, but
I’m not convinced. What do you think?
“Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.” ― Anaïs Nin
(To be continued)