Have you seen Hilma Af Klint's work before? She is one of the inspirations for Prima Materia's primary approach to illustrate consciousness, constructs, and concepts. Each of her paintings was designed to pass on a certain message that would be largely invisible to the human eye - these are not illustrations of something of reality but within the imagination. How can your paintings communicate a message from your interior and bring it to the exterior?

Hilma af Klint "The Ten Largest, No. 07, Adulthood"

Hilma af Klint "Tree of Knowledge No. 1

Hilma af Klint "Altarpiece No. 1"

Hilma Af Klint "The Key to All Works to Date"

WHY ATTEND? A Message from Shiloh Sophia

I fell in love with Hilma Af Klints work the minute I saw it. Then learning she was the first abstract impressionist but wasn't known until quite recently was even more exciting. I had the honor of going to see her work in New York when it was at the Guggenheim - and oh my goodness gracious. I was so struck by HOW she was 'illustrating' concepts so clearly - and the technique with lines and simple organic geometric shapes to communicate ideas. Then there was 'how' she was receiving the information through a direct download from the Divine. So much to say about her and we will talk about her.

We will be inspired by her images, as well as those of Hildegard Von Bingen and Frida Kahlo - the way they use images to communicate stories and ideas is so incredible - and we want to be able to do the same thing. So attend because you are ready for something NEW in your art.

And because it is time to gather! And! This is the highest level of my most esoteric material I have ever taught. I don’t know what will happen! This is an experience. I can’t guarantee the outcome or what your paintings will look like or how you will feel. I have never taught it before. We will enter the unknown together and know that something magical will take place in our time together. The idea of women entering the ‘museum’ to muse on their own material and curate their consciousness through illustrating their ideas is pure delight.

Study in a museum, while making artifacts that could one day be shown in a museum with a museum curator who has been practicing this art 25 years. See amazing things in the permanent collection of the museum you have never seen before. Just cool. 

I can almost guarantee you will feel a way you have never felt before and stretch in a way you haven’t stretched before. And that it can be blissful and surprising and delighting. That said, your paintings might not be stunning, but they may astonish you! We are in an alchemical process, not doing the paintings to look a certain way but to create a condition in which the artist will access her own Prima Materia. Highly unlikely and curiouser and curiouser, but we have to try, don’t we? 

This is like Intentional Creativity on a psychedelic drug without any side effects other than increased consciousness and I hope, laughter!

COME to the QUIVERING EDGE

I often laugh when I am doing this process, which is illustrating our consciousness and making the invisible visible. I do feel almost scared to share it but I feel more scared not to share it. Not scared about what might happen per se. Yet if I don’t feel fear, if I am not shaking in my boots then I am not at my quivering edge. I want to take you there, to the quivering edge, where you are the very edge of your known territory of being and then you DIVE in.

There is risk involved, your default settings will self-destruct and you will break your own spells with a paintbrush and cup of tea in ceremony. But -

I don't think this is going to hurt in the same way other healings have. Just keep going when you reach the edge of the unknown you will see a fork in the road. Yes, take that one. Which one? Yes, the fork is the way. Both/And BABY!

I don’t think it is going to drag you into trauma and processing like the old days of healing. Why? Because it feels SO GOOD to be in the power to self liberate. To no longer wait for someone to come and fix it or have it worked out of you. YOU are THE keeper of your own internal medicine.

As I write these words my stomach rumbles, my tears burn my eyes, and the top of my head tingles. I am onto something here, but I am of course not the only one. It’s just that I have dedicated my entire life to this ‘something’ and that I want to share it with you.

I feel I am dipping into a territory that alchemists and mystics visit. When I go there/here I wonder....Hum.....wait a minute. I wonder who doesn’t want me over here ‘in this arena of consciousness and dimensionality’? As if I have entered a highly guarded secret door without the proper (patriarchal) password that shows I am initiated in the mysteries held there. 

I am going in. Come with me?