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from series "Reflections" size 39" x 29" digital print

January 22 - February 21, 2009

Patricia K. Gagic: "Avatar - Within and Beyond "
photo based work

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Avatar: (Sanskrit) incarnation
A physical embodiment of the spiritual

 
Peak Gallery is pleased to present the photobased works of Hamilton artist, Patricia Gagic.
Ms Gagic believes that her studies of Eastern religions has guided her to a Recognition of the Spiritual as it manifests itself in ordinary everyday life. These spiritual occurrences, surprising embodiments of formal beauty, have been documented in her photographs.

 

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"AVATAR "BEYOND AND WITHIN"

"From the Sanskrit "avatara", a traditional term for a Divine Incarnation. It literally means "One who is descended, or "crossed down" (from, and as, the Divine)". From the Knee of Listening (The Divine Ordeal Of the Avataric Incarnation of Conscious Light); by Adi Da Samraj. On November 27, 2008 Adi Da entered His Divine Mahasamadhi, the death transition of the Avatar. This exhibition is dedicated to the anchoring of the spiritually accelerated and ego-transcendence.

We are called to stand in a kind of “not knowing” about self, life, and Mystery. In that state of ignorance we allow something to enter into our consciousness that informs and activates our creative and curious mind. A spiritually active person begins to understand their journey and the choices made raise individual consciousness. A new and magical understanding begins to penetrate our way of feeling and seeing life. The "love" or Adamantine particle awakens the heart and soul. All that appears beautiful in the most simple of ways is seen, respected and recognized. There is a Divine Presence that cannot be ignored. The simplicity of being in the moment with full awareness allows all that exists to be seen in its perfect state. The images created for this exhibition arise from such a journey. They are a response to a sense of what is beautiful in a fundamental experience. Do not take for granted the beauty of light, for it is within the light that we see, feel and honor each other.

Patricia Karen Gagic
January 2009

 
 
 

 

 

Love Comes To Here in Time,
And Numbers All the Things
of Beauty in the House.
A Single Room Is Shown To Be
--A Unity, Within and Every Where.
No Point of View is Stood Apart.
No Word Is Made To Say,
This Space Is Empty,
or, This Place Is Full.
Only Light Itself Is Come
--A Merest Touch of Brightness
Neither Mind Nor Body Can Deny.
It Is the Heart’s Explanation of Reality.
It Is Reality, Plain Spoken To the Heart
--and By the Heart Alone.
It Is the Beautiful, Itself.

Adi Da Samraj - from The World As Light, An Introduction to the Art of Adi Da Samraj ; by Mei-Ling Israel

 
   
May you receive the gift…