Art & Training

KNOWLEDGE IN PRACTICE

Art enters this work in two ways. There is the commissioned piece, painted for one person alone. It comes from what that person is living and from what in them is asking to come through, so it is never repeated or reproduced, and while it is being made I accompany them through those months. That guidance comes with the piece. And there are the paths where the art is the way itself, such as Archangel, the Codex of the Thirteen Moons, formerly called Luz dos Anjos, and the Dragons. I paint a series over thirteen months, one image at a time, and the group receives it and works with it in the gatherings. At the end of the cycle each person chooses the image that called to them most and receives it produced for them, with a numbered certificate. In both cases, the image does not illustrate an idea: it is the form an inner thing finds in order to exist outside. This is what I mean when I speak of art as an expression of the soul. People who come to live with a piece like this tend to say the same thing, that a place appeared in the house where you stop, breathe and come back to yourself. The other trainings are paths with a programme, a calendar and an assessment, which teach a method, practise it with guidance and end with a certification.