Wind of Change

Did you read it singing?


Hola!!
I hope you are doing amazing.

For me it’s been a roller coaster, and I would say it all started with the first lockdown.
And I’m not saying it’s a bad rollercoaster, but a very enlightening one. It has showed me so much about me, about people, about the important things in life.

Also, hubby, my studio assistant and pet Ophelia and I moved from one country to another and at the beginning sounded easy, but it is a huge change.
There’s a lot of things I don’t understand or even really know they exist in a new country. I mean, I love it here, for sure, it’s just adjusting is taking a bit more of time of what I thought it would be.

The traffic lights are different, people humor is different, translation in my mind sounds in certain way that when I actually speak it means different things, it has also been hilarious, mostly for my neighbors. They are super kind and patience with me, I make them laugh and I’m not even trying to, so that makes it greater.

Lots of thing have changed, and most important, I feel I have changed.
May it be that now I’m 39? Very close to the wise 40s? Or was it the lockdown? The different country and diet?
I feel like I’m becoming another person, a more genuine and simpler one.

Also, maybe my meditation has kicked in more deeply (I just laughed here, alone) and I feel so light, my awareness span it’s bigger and more enjoyable, the simplicity of the moment embraces me with unconditional love and I feel more free.

I’m not pristinely perfect of obviously!! I get engaged with practical life, but it doesn’t feel like a hurricane anymore. And I don’t know if this might sound weird but I love and I feel peace with whatever is happening (and let me tell you, there’s some serious not cool stuff happening). But it makes me wonder if this is the Amor Fati lesson my Teacher taught me. It comes from the stoics, google it and you will probably finding fascinating.

Do you practice any meditation? Have you seen important changes in your life?


In the same change mood, I changed the layout of my studio, because I needed to have my picture taken for a project and I liked it, so I made some more little changes and adjust the lights, and the stuff around.

It feel so different! Some may say is not the best layout, but the sentiment, the energy feels so so different and I’m loving it and enjoying it.

The energy of change has come like the cold but embracing wind in the mornings on my walks in the woods.
And I’m loving it.
I feel so embraced and supported that it started showing in my art. I started a project and I can’t wait to see the final result.

These are some of the pictures of the beginning of the process.

A new beginning

I’ll keep you posted about this project.

For now, I’m curious, are you experimenting important changes lately in your life?

Love & Sparkles!

The Unfinished Necklace

Sometimes life happens.

I love inspiration, as you may suspect. I love the subject, I think is mystery and we are in charge of discover what abides beyond what we can see. I’m a clue hunter, I love to follow the white rabbits, I’m passionate about this adventure in the journey of creativity.

I always encourage people to keep going, I’m the biggest cheerleader of dreamers.

A few months ago I received the worst news of my life. My dad was diagnosed with leukemia. I’m far away from him and my family, around a year ago hubby, Ophelia (french studio assistant bulldog) and I moved to this lovely Tiny Town.
I was shocked. I think I still am a bit.

I stopped painting, I stopped my life.
I’ve never wrote this, and I'm writing it here because it feels good, nobody reads it and I know he won’t read it.

I stopped. I felt frozen. I still feel that way some days. But the love around me melts the freezing and I managed to keep breathing.

It was shocking to see everything change.
Even the happy cheerleader in me.

Little by little I’ve started painting again.
I’ve done my best. And still there are some moments when I freeze again.

I started a new series that means a lot to me.
So far, the plan is to have 3 pieces. They have abstract backgrounds, a woman in a black and white kinda tone, a 90’s object and an egyptian symbol.

It’s all connected.
To what I live, what I feel, what see, who I am and I haven’t been able to describe the paintings completely. This is the first one.

(I’m the worst photographer of my art by the way)

A wave of passion, hope and energy came, and I started the second one.
But I haven’t been able to finish it.

The 90’s item in the new painting is one of those plastic chokers. And it’s just missing a little piece and it will be done.

But I can’t finish it yet.

It’s nothing:

You see? Nothing!
Is just a little piece of the choker.
Again, the quality of the photo, sorry.

But you can see it, right?

Is nothing.
And at the same time it’s everything.

It means the sadness, and the freezing.

To keep breathing, because there’s still more to do, more to give, more to love.

I hope this works as a reminder for you too.
We can do it.
Hold on.
We got this.

Love & Sparkles,

Ishani

Study of a Poem

Don’t you just love autumn?
It brought a cozy palette and I just followed the clues. It happened to end in a watercolor piece.

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