Rose Mixed Media - Manifestation by Shahna Lax

Manifestation is a mixed media by Shahna Lax which was uploaded on February 15th, 2014.

Manifestation

According to the sayings of Mohammed, God created the Universe through the Breath of the Compassionate... more

by Shahna Lax

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35.250 x 8.000 x 2.000 inches

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Title

Manifestation

Artist

Shahna Lax

Medium

Mixed Media - Etched Copper With Fretwork And Acrylic Mirror

Description

According to the sayings of Mohammed, God created the Universe through the Breath of the Compassionate

Islamic art is filled with the geometric expression of this fundamental.

The square, representing form itself, is expanded into an octagon star and contracted into a cross by means of the extension and inversion triangles. This star and cross together forms a single Breath of the Compassionate.

This illumination contains five such breaths. In the Hebraic mystical tradition "5" is both associated with breath and being (the letter hei) and is also the number of souls potential in the human experience. Words for soul in the Semitic languages (both Hebrew and Arabic) have breath at the root of their meaning. The four Hebrew words with the stars read:
My soul (nafeshi) blesses the Source of Being.

The Sufi tradition contains a parallel teaching concerning five subtle points of spiritual energy.

The central star contains the Arabic:
al-baqi - The Eternal.
The One who remains when all that is transient has gone.

In MANIFESTATION the rose comes into being be means of a weaving of cosmologies of Islam and the Hebraic Mystical tradition. In Kabbalah, manifestation arises from within a web known as the "malbush," or Divine Garment forming the architecture of Divine thought which becomes the basis for all potential life forms. This manifests the rose above.