Check Your Chakras

This piece stemmed from when I first learned about chakras. I was so intrigued by them. I did lots of research and took notes on each one in deep detail. Honestly, I felt completely betrayed by the education system and that these energy portals hadn't been taught in health class - but of course, that's not the first time I've felt betrayed by the lack of what I was taught in school. 

I'd initially envisioned a being meditating with their hands resting on their knees in the "open and ready to receive" position but to be honest, I struggled with drawing the hands that way. I had never really been good at drawing hands, people, or realistic things but I had the vision and wanted to see it. Eventually, I decided on doing praying hands instead and it actually fits the piece better. Open and ready to receive isn't the focus or intention behind getting in balance. It's about looking within and examining the ways that you are and aren't aligned with your soul's true desires, the ways in which you aren't thinking, feeling, speaking, and acting exactly the way you want to. From there, we can look at how each chakra affects us, we can see the areas where we are lacking and the areas where there's too much energy and then make adjustments.

Thinking back on this piece, besides that I knew it would be a being meditating with chakras in them, nothing else was preplanned and it kind of just became as I went. That's how most of my pieces go, a spiritual process throughout its making. I wanted the being to be blue to convey that this wasn't a human being, maybe so, but way more than that, a human being who's chakras are fully opened and aligned. Glowing and flowing with energy.

I decided to put them in the universe to depict them in their natural home, with the sun and moon near by to show that the moon and sun are connected to the being and have an affect on them. I added the crystals at the bottom to show that their energy also affects the being and it's ability to be aligned. This piece is all about balance and energy and how everything affects everything.