“WATCHING FULL MOON OVER MACHAPUCHARE”
100 x 75 cm.
Acrylics, Oriental paper, Indian silk and embroidery on Belgian linen.
This painting is based on a trekking in the Nepal Himalayas. During this trek the sacred Mount Machapuchare (“Fishtail”) stayed constantly within view. As such this picture tells the story of an outer as well as of an inner experience.
At the bottom of the painting we can see a river like line. It represents the actual river, which was followed during the trek. But it also symbolizes the horizontal; time, and the feminine aspects like intuition and being in a non-doing flow.
On top of the small hill in front of the river we can imagine a red robed person meditating. This hill represents the vertical; consciousness, as well as the male aspects like being focused and action. The meditator sits exactly at the meeting point of these two aspects. His own X-like shape, integrating the horizontal and vertical energy lines, is repeated on a larger scale in the overall composition. Micro-cosmos and macro-cosmos are becoming one.
Seen like this, the person's head at a macro scale corresponds with the full moon, reflecting the light in a state of inner emptiness.
