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“Bridging the Divine” new art series at Holistic Living Dec 4th 2020.

ART SERIES at Holistic Living “Bridging the Divine” starting Dec 4th.

Mind, body, spirit heals through the prism of energetic vibration, chemistry, and consciousness, an alignment understood by ancients for millennia. Our dis-ease occurs when we are misaligned from our divine. Shamans are the bridge, offering antidotes with a trinity of medicine: plant, animal, crystal. Combined, they weave a wholistic path to bridging the divine.

In this photographic and mixed media series, I curated collections of animal medicine, plants, and crystals to form antidotal offerings to the mind.body.spirit in crisis, thematically addressing the cycles of human evolution: the destroyer, the warrior, the dancer, the divine. Each medicine offering is a call to realign, channel wisdom, and elevate your vibration to divinity.

When sitting with these relics, collections from both @russritell and I, I considered the sacred masculine within me to lead the way. Recalling the grace of the shaman in my ayahuasca ceremony, the sacred masculine cultivates a safe space while expansively leading you towards your best self. There’s been so much revival of the sacred feminine; the world is ripe to witness the healed masculine.

This ongoing series of artwork and posters will be featured at Holistic Living with Dr Michael Dardano starting December 4th at 520 Main Street, Beacon, NY. His shop and collective just opened in Beacon – vitamins, herbs, organic skin care, reiki, acupuncture, massage, organic pet care, smudge kits, crystals, and more! Please stop in during the Hop and Shop this weekend or Second Saturday next weekend. I’ll be organizing a small art reception. Details to come!

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“Bloodline” | Painting My Grief: The Story & The Process

A year ago, I began the preliminary sketch of my second oil painting “Bloodline,” while sitting the BAU Gallery during my show “Without Fear and Full of Love,” an autobiographical story of domestic violence and my journey into healing told through a series of self-portraits and poetry.

Connected to an intimate poem about grieving, I drew in the influences of Dia de los Muertos. The sadness of miscarriage bleeds from womb to heart, turning your life upside down. The bees were my spiritual ally, not only in my painting, but in real life.

“Bloodline”
Oil and charcoal infused oil on Wood
20×30

“Honey bees cling to me, abandoning their hive and their queen. I wondered why until I saw your soul behind the wings. A lifetime to fill until you come back to me.”

~Meghan Spiro

Details on my painting process are documented below.

My Process

I took 20 years off from painting. Previously I focused on watercolor and acrylic, and only had dabbled in oils. So when I was ready to try oil painting, I consulted my partner Russ Ritell, who gave me some simple advice: The more detailed the drawing, the more successful the painting. So that’s exactly what I do. In this painting, my second, I decided to freehand the entire drawing, rather than using a grid system which I had previously done with my first painting. I started with the face, then outlines to the hand, then the flowers and body above. After finishing the illustration, I did a underpainting using burnt umber and raw umber. Then I started the painting.

This is the first coat.

Face detail on the second coat.

Flower Detail

Bloody Hand Detail

Upper body, flower, and bloody hand detail on the second coat.

Detail of bee, honeycomb, and orchids.

“Bloodline”
Oil and charcoal infused oil on Wood
20×30

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“Gaia’s Crown” featured on Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

So honored that my entry for the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Award 2020 is featured on beautifulbizarre.net 🙏🏼 Thank you @beautifulbizarremagazine for featuring “Gaia’s Crown,” from my Bella Monnezza series. Feeling such gratitude. ✨

“Gaia’s Crown, Bella Monnezza”
Model: @freddya890
Compost Crown Styling & Photography: @meghanspiro

Our history is in our food; it embeds in our DNA. Gaia nourishes us with her abundance, and in turn we incubate her with our decay. Compost is our offering, letting our spoils be the fuel for the next harvest season. More than ever, Gaia is calling us back to balance, so please compost, pick up trash in nature, carry-in/carry-out, recycle, conserve energy. We are the stewards of nature. Earth Day Every Day.

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Women for Women, Illustration & Poem of a New Painting

Women for women
Above all conditions
Dissolving competition
Weaving solidarity

Honesty creating intimacy
Intimacy creating trust

No man between us
No doubt deceiving us

Of our grace and strength
And compassion in sync

With the beat of the earth
And the swells of the waves

I give praise to my sistars
Who illuminate

The black waters of humanity
The tears of agony

That awaken the collective
To the threads all connected

So we may move in unison
Back to love

~Womb to World poetry series by Meghan Spiro

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“HELP FEED BEACON” ART SHOW, BAU Gallery

Help Feed Beacon

ART SHOW at BAU GalleryOpen Sat-Sun 12-6pm until Aug 2nd

View local hudson valley art and donate to the Beacon Food Bank. All artwork is for sale. I have two pieces up from my Bella Monnezza series. If purchased, I will personally donate 20% of the sale to the Beacon Food Bank. Please help support our local community.

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Video + Written Poetry | Illustrating “A Bloody, Beautiful Blooming”

Womb to World Poetry by Meghan Spiro

a series beginning…

paradise on fire
bleeding hearts
for the wounds that cling

violent contractions
the blood that shifts paradigms

womb to world
struggling to breath
then we arrive
we voice our first cry

hearts open
hearts bleeding
hearts needing
the mother

traumas
travel through
to the next generation
until we welcome the revelations

the revolutionary path
begins within

reactionary
arrested
listen
for the blessed

hearts bleed in solidarity
transforming collectively
voicing our cries
with intelligent eyes

ending ancestral rhythms
unlearning the old conditions
reckoning the longing for the safety of the womb

every heartbeat
an act of love
bloody
breathless
until we cry
on the other side

~by Meghan Spiro

The womb
where we ruminate
ancestral aches wake

Sit in the silence
Cry to the violence
Darkness consuming
Renew

To the blood
That soaks these sheets
To the hateful hands
To the mothers who birth new
Tip the scales

The scales…
inescapable
Unbreakable

prisms
cast projections
in all expressions
Horrifying
inspiring

Evolutionary spirals churning
One blood
One soul
One love

~by Meghan Spiro

Amongst the tangled roots

Every cycle, a prayer to release a knot

Karma

~by Meghan Spiro

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Video: Oil Painting a Portrait, Quarantine Art Session

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“Year of the Rat” Medicine Necklace | Honoring Our Changing Times

Rat Skull, Turquoise, Antique Silver from Nepal

Twelve years ago today (also the Year of the Rat), I was burglarized and lost my entire office and all my clients, after two years of business. To top it all off, I also realized my abusive husband at the time plunged us into $34k in credit card debit. No minimum or modest wage job could get me out of that situation. My pride was my job and my “appeared” wealth, but in a moment, I was humbled and everything seemed lost. It would be a fight to pay off the debit, to buy the equipment, and to get my business back. And you know what, I did a year later, but I made some sacrifices that still follow my reputation today… hmmm today… I have no work, except home schooling my daughter. I don’t know how bills will be paid, or if I have enough food or toilet paper, but my pride is not in my things or my job or my persona as an artist or writer. I surrender to love. I surrender to doing the next kind act. I surrender to generosity… to listening to Mother Nature’s cry for help… to conservation and clean-up… to only focusing on this moment. The universe will provide only what I need, and all we need is less out there, and more inside, and in our time that we are limited to the outside, stay in, and go deeper. Stay in and re-evaluate if you’re decisions or thoughts are focused on love or fear. The news will shackle you in fear, but your spirit will always point you back to love – stay there. We are birthing a new human existence where this practice is essential, where Mother Nature and the collective bare more weight on decisions than self needs and greed. It’s the year of the warrior, the time to align your values & fight – with every choice, every thought, every intention.

The necklace. I was gifted this rat skull while buying frames for my art show. I didn’t know what to do with it, but then, this year arrived, The Year of the Rat. I knew I had to embody a warrior spirit to guide me beyond tough times back to a life of abundance, so I honored this year by making this necklace. It’s a reminder of resiliency. We will get thru this.

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Opening Reception RoCA | Three Exhibitions, One Art Center

Three Shows, One Art Center

I was so lucky to share this space with so many talented artists, including Russ Ritell (Perspectives exhibit) and Zackary Skinner (solo show). My selected work, “The Unkept, The Unmet, The Dreams Memorized and Not Mine” (16×24, Dye Sublimation Metal Print) is in the exhibit “YOU ARE HERE” at RoCA, running March 8th-April 19th.

“A juried exhibition on cultural and autobiographical stories reflecting the issues and individual expressions of every day life.”

Check out this amazing and diverse group of art!

Rockland Center for the Arts
27 South Greenbush Road
West Nyack, New York

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Healing Our Ghosts PODCAST with Meghan Spiro

So this was quite an opening experience into itself, probably my most honest interview to date about my story of domestic violence and journey into healing.

A quote from Ana Joanes who hosted the Podcast:

“Check out the new episode of #HealingOurGhosts with our very own Meghan Spiro. Meghan exhibited “Without Fear and Full of Love” a couple months back and I was blown away by the beauty and power of her work. She addresses head on spousal abuse, sexual trauma, but also the possibility of healing and her deep connection to the feminine divine. In her own words “One in four women have been a victim of severe physical violence with intimate partner in their lifetime, and I am one of them. For years, I spent my life in silence about the abuse, as it happened and in my attempts to recover. I found myself ill-equipped to handle my PTSD, my addictions, and my self-loathing. It wasn’t until I signed up to write this story and manifest these self-portraits that I actually began my deeper healing, transmuting my suffering into wisdom and my loathing into love. ” Check out Healing Our Ghosts wherever you listen to your podcast or on my site: https://www.wrestlingghosts.com/podcast/meghanspiro “

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My Process

This is the first coat.

Face detail on the second coat.

Flower Detail

Bloody Hand Detail

Upper body, flower, and bloody hand detail on the second coat.

Detail of bee, honeycomb, and orchids.

Help Feed Beacon

ART SHOW at BAU GalleryOpen Sat-Sun 12-6pm until Aug 2nd

Womb to World Poetry by Meghan Spiro

~by Meghan Spiro

~by Meghan Spiro

Amongst the tangled roots

Every cycle, a prayer to release a knot

Karma

~by Meghan Spiro

Three Shows, One Art Center

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