Desert Moon Gallery- Jewelry Art and Paintings in Oil / Pastel

Necklace-Coral in silver

Guan Yin Necklace-Jade in silver

Bracelet- turquoise in silver

Sacred Cow-Necklace with garnet and turquoise

Jade Ring

Coral Necklace

"For Merleau-Ponty, all of the creativity and free-ranging mobility that we have come to associate with the human intellect is, in truth, an elaboration of a profound creativity already underway at the most immediate level of sensory perception. The sensing body is an active and open form, continually improvising its relation to the world around."
David Abram

Transformation

"Everything that man does in his symbolic world is an attempt to deny and overcome his fate. He literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social and political games."

From "The Denial of Death" by Ernest Becker

Saraswati-Goddess of arts and music.

Myth, according to Roland Barthes-author of the book "Mythologies", is NOT the eternal archtypes of cosmic consciousness that transcends history. Myth is man-made ideology to serve social and cultural function by way of oral tradition and texts. Myths of deity worship varied greatly among old cultures- China, Egypt, India and in Christianity. They are folk tales based on imgaination and fantasy that have no univesral or objective signification.

David

The language of myth contains a hierarchy of meaning, a form of absolutism. Myths, originated from the archaic world, are the essential elements in old religions (one god, many god or superhuman figures). Myths rely on blind faith and collective comformity. They are part of reified texts used to privelege one class-the priests as in patriarchal tradition. The priests are imitators in performing ceremonials and chantings, they are self-elevated as being godlike in order to assert authority on their followers.

Parvati-Goddess of the Snowy Mountain,
a symbol of Eco-Guardian.

"Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for generations. Do not believe merely because the written words of some old sages. Accept the teaching only when it agrees with reason and is conducive to the benefit of one and all, then live up to it."

The Buddha

"Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are wein spiritual connection with the world. Any philosophy not resepcting this, not based on the indefinite totality of life is bound to diasppear."

The Wandering Sadu-Singing to the Sky:
"Delusion and sorrow attend every birth. In youth is the dependence of others, in old age, anxiety, disease and fear of death. This birth is the seed of sorrow and being the form of sorrrow is unbearable." The Upanishad