I opened 5' x 10' "Webh Celebration", 2009 from within its storage tube for & with Green Art Studio 

~Hello Universe~

from my June 15th, 2010 post http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2010/06/webh-celebration.html

The concept for the “Webh Series” originated as a continuation of the “Chakra Rising Wave Series.” The words wave, weave, and web are derived from the Proto-Indo-European root word webh. Within a template symbol, Webh employs three basic grays;  red/green, orange/blue, and yellow/violet. A symbolic representation of the webh on seven color fields creates a whole having 21 saparate panels. The textured pattern of the Lokta/Nepal paper augments the overall pattern within the panels by solidifying its foundation. "Webh Celebration" is 5' x 10'.

Webh is symbolic of the internal and external relationships between opposing concepts of us and them. Symbolic levels also include earth and water, fire and air, matter and non matter, imbalance and wellbeing, inhaling and exhaling, and di and da. It is the system expressed as an interconnected whole.

In art there has traditionally been realism and abstraction.  Artists are beginning to bridge this gap and to recognize and formalize a wholistic picture: real and abstract. Webh maintains the individuality and quality of each within a wholistic relationship, while creating a separate entity within the unique character of each piece. There is a quantum moment within a process when these merged perspectives bring forth the world in its totality. The work becomes a self portrait as well as a portrait of a culture. Artists are coupling their "new"*understanding of 'wholeness' to the greater community. In these paintings this pattern appears at a level where old and new meet, link, renew, and weave together again.  Many artists today are reconnecting to our roots and traditional cultures. This work can be symbolic of the basis of life, DNA, the Caduceus.  The webh is infinite.  

[Footnote this] “New,” used above, is in quotes because this concept of wholeness is not new. Many older civilizations understood this duality. The Aborigine, Native American, African traditionals, Celtic, Ayurvedic, European, Chinese and Asian peoples possessed this understanding of a whole, interelated and interdependent conceptual framework of our inner and outer world. 

Chakra Rising Wave Series 1 - 7

Took this shot yesterday of the installation of "Chakra Rising Wave Series 1 - 7" at Organic Yoga in Wilmington, NC. Thankyou(s) to Lorrie and Eric Wagner for the opportunity and for hanging them. 

Each panel w/loops on bamboo rods can be viewed more clearly on my archival website http://www.greenartstudio.com/galleryrising.html. I did these in 2008. They are 18" x 23" and done with beeswax and eco-friendly pigments on Khadi papers. This is the first time they have been hung for show vertically, thanks to the high ceilings at this wonderful yoga space.

Chakra 7 Rising Wave                12" x 12"                 2008

The Crown or 7th Chakra represents pure consciousness achieved by connecting personal inner wisdom to universal consciousness, unity, and beingness. 

Chakra 6 Rising Wave

Chakra 6 Rising Wave             12" x 12"              2008

Chakra 6 or The Third Eye is our center to personal balance through intuitive clarity by visualizing the consciousness of universal knowledge. It is associated with the Pineal Gland and is located centrally just above the brow.

Chakra 5 Rising Wave Series

Chakra 5 Rising Wave             12"x 12"               2oo8

Chakra 5 / Throat Chakra is the point of voice. It "relates to communication, our growth in unconditional love, passion and devotion" from the giclee gift card packet for the Wholidays.  The 7 Chakras 1 - 7 and informational page w/thumbnails. These museum/gallery quality giclee reproductions of a series of paintings  (b&np) following my tile paintings series.  These paintings were done on the tiles.


 See   http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/search/label/Tile%20Series 

Chakra 3 Rising Wave

Chakra 3 Rising Wave          12" x 12"             2008

Chakra 3 or Solar Plexus guides our relationship with our personal power and personal growth with our emotional, physical and spiritual environment. As we raise our kundalini energy here we enable ourselves, giving ourselves permission, to be all that we can be with our environment and our self.

Chakra 2 Rising Wave

Chakra 2 Rising Wave                        12" x 12"                              2008

The 2nd or Sacral Chakra relates to reproduction, creativity, joy and enthusiasm. It is located centrally to just below most belly buttons. The painting is done with beeswax and natural pigment on Khadi paper with tabs and hung by a bamboo rod.

Chakra 1 Rising Wave

Chakra 1 Rising Wave      12" x 12"     Beeswax & natural pigment on Khadi paper  

Chakra 1 Rising Wave is the first of seven in this Series. Chakras, the body's 7 energy centers, connect each of us with our environment on physical, mental and spiritual levels. The 7 Chakra System is the more commonly recognized in western cultures. In these works I use pure colors with the coiled lines of Kundalini. 

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini

Kundalini literally means coiled. In yoga, a "corporeal energy"^[1] - an unconscious, instinctive or libidinal force or Shakti, lies coiled at the base of the spine.^[2][3][4] It is envisioned either as a goddess or else as a sleeping serpent, hence a number of English renderings of the term such as 'serpent power'. The kundalini resides in the sacrum bone in three and a half coils and has been described as a residual power of pure desire.

The first Chakra is considered the root or sacral chakra. It is located at the lowest area corresponding to the spine in our sacral pelvic area. It is associated with connecting us to Earth and aids with maintaining our stability, sense of security, sensuality and sexuality

Preparing for an Opening

Organizing work for hanging at Sage Salon and Spa.

WebhGround 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 (#3 will be at the Rocky Mount Museum until between Mon hanging and the 23rd Opening. Will plan in its' spot for the opening)

Picked up Chakra Rising Wave Series 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 from Porters Neck Yoga Spa this morning. They had "lost" the Bamboo rods and had been hanging them with fishing line. Some clean up of the work, as is typical after displaying somewhere for awhile and cutting and drilling 7 new rods.

Will take the large 5' x 10' Webh Celebration and my 3d piece Ocean Driftwood Wave for possible hanging if they fit the occasion. Other possibles include work from the Tile Series and the Infinity Series.
Will take many pieces and sense what I'll say with the presence of hanging the work in the space. Sage is an interesting space to display for me. They are a green Salon and Spa and have had their walls painted with non toxic wall paints and new "green surfaces and materials throughout the space. A higher energetic vibration that I'm excited about with hanging my work with. There are several rooms available for hanging.

Sage is preparing Invitations and will forward that for me to send out to my mail list and Sage is featuring it in their September newsletter. Natural Awakenings Mag announced it in their Aug issue and it will be on their calender of events online. I need to contact Going Green Mag to ask them to post it on their Calender today also. WILMA, Wilmington Women's mag may announce it in the photo op they gave me yesterday. Will also contact other local publications and hang the Invitation in various locations in our area.

Back to cutting and drilling more bamboo rods and selecting and cleaning and packing the pieces to take Mon.

Webh Celebration

The concept for the “Webh Series” originated as a continuation of the “Chakra Rising Wave Series.” The words wave, weave, and web are derived from the Proto-Indo-European root word webh. Within a template symbol, Webh employs three basic grays;  red/green, orange/blue, and yellow/violet. A symbolic representation of the webh on seven color fields creates a whole having 21 saparate panels. The textured pattern of the Lokta/Nepal paper augments the overall pattern within the panels by solidifying its foundation. "Webh Celebration" is 5' x 10'.

Webh is symbolic of the internal and external relationships between opposing concepts of us and them. Symbolic levels also include earth and water, fire and air, matter and non matter, imbalance and wellbeing, inhaling and exhaling, and di and da. It is the system expressed as an interconnected whole.

In art there has traditionally been realism and abstraction.  Artists are beginning to bridge this gap and to recognize and formalize a wholistic picture: real and abstract. Webh maintains the individuality and quality of each within a wholistic relationship, while creating a separate entity within the unique character of each piece. There is a quantum moment within a process when these merged perspectives bring forth the world in its totality. The work becomes a self portrait as well as a portrait of a culture. Artists are beginning to couple their "new"* understanding of 'wholeness' to the greater community. In these paintings this pattern appears at a level where old and new meet, link, renew, and weave together again.  Many artists today are reconnecting to our roots and traditional cultures. This work can be symbolic of the basis of life, DNA, the Caduceus.  The webh is infinite.  

[Footnote this] “New,” used above, is in quotes because this concept of wholeness is not new. Many older civilizations understood this duality. The Aborigine, Native American, African traditionals, Celtic, Ayurvedic, European, Chinese and Asian peoples possessed this understanding of a whole, interelated and interdependent conceptual framework of our inner and outer world. 

Chakra 2 Rising Wave

Chakra Rising Wave Series Giclee Cards

Chakra Rising Wave Series Giclee Cards

The 5" x 7" Chakra gift cards are archival giclee frameable art prints. Images of the original paintings done in beeswax & natural pigments on Khadi papers can be viewed on my website at http://www.greenartstudio.com/galleryrising.html.

useful meditation tool

7 Card package $35.oo + s&h

Individual card $8.oo + s&h

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please contact me at info@greenartstudio.com

Cards are also sold at the following retail 

ArtExposure, Hampstead, NC

Gypsy Sun, Surf City, NC

Porters Neck Yoga Spa, Wilmington, NC

Sambuca, Wilmington, NC

Visions and Dreams, Wilmington, NC

Original Chakra 1 Rising Wave

                                               Beeswax and natural pigment on Khadi Paper