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Nuit and the Seven Sisters
Shelley Irish
11" x 14"
Oil on Canvas
2015

Nuit and the Seven Sisters explores the thin veil between us and the world of spirit. Nuit, the Egyptian goddess of the sky, lets down her ladder of stars for us to ascend. She circles the sky like the spoke of a watch, turning in perfect rhythm with all of creation. She holds up the sky and is the sky itself, her body, a blanket of stars. She is the safe womb of creation where all energy is born. Continually birthing our world, she is in a constant state of conception, gestation and birthing. At the end of her heart centered spiral plume of stars floats the Pleiades constellation, our seven sisters. They keep the torch lit for our transcendence.

The veil splits like fabric in our moment of asking for the mystery to express itself to us. Like a thread unwinding it's own sewing, the veil turns our day to night and illuminates the mysteries in the depth of the dark. The thread is always avai...

Shelley's paintings dance with unabashed honesty of the medicines and challenges of the human life cycle. Existential and contemplative, her work explores the net between psychology and spirituality. She discovers what each painting wants to say, translates it and offers her paintings as meditations on existence. She uses shamanic journeying and energetic healing to pull the physical feelings inside of her out and onto the canvas. Her process starts within her heart and mind, most often based on experiences of her own personal growth and self-reflection. Emotions turn into landscapes, cognitive processes turn into people and deities. Her path is a seeker of truth and she is highly interested in the interconnectedness of energy and the...