Portal to a New Earth
( Day #13 of Hilma af Klint and the Imaginary Possible)
In the restless darkness
your mind runs wide awake
circling round plans
dreams of your escapes
Comes a flickering light
A stirring underneath
A vision of pulsing seeds
rising from beneath
A pyramid of light communes
with galaxies far away
a fountain welcomes visitors
with a watery bouquet
The portal to a paradise
a planet once called Earth
all have heard of her beauty
and the difficulty of her birth
The name of the second picture, Portal of the New Earth came easily, as did the painting itself.
I imagined a gateway created to greet star beings from near and far.
At the entrance of the portal was a water fountain in the shape of a tree.
The portal contains an underground pyramid and below that, seed pods and spirals pulsing with life.
There were archways connecting the different points of the pyramid,with the emblem rose at the front.
Above, an inverted pyramid communicates with the energies of the cosmos.
I didn’t plan on creating this painting. It came about like a doodle, except that I began with the intention to be receptive to whatever emerged, to say yes to everything, and to assume that whatever emerges has significance.
You might say, and it would be true, that this painting came from my imagination.
But here is one thing I learned early as I began to explore intuitive ways of knowing: imagination is the portal to other dimensions.
“It’s only a dream,” we tell children, as if the lines between fantasy and reality in the ‘real” world are clear and agreed upon.
But as artists and visionaries know, everything imagined vividly is, in some sense “real”.
We use our imagination to make real the realities we want to believe are true.
We can also use our imagination to travel towards and to bring back new realities.
