As Above, So Below

Materials:

• triangular cradle board

• watercolor ground in multiple colors

• wooden arcs to join the boards

• watercolor paint

“As Above So Below” is a story about the most Dreadful Beauty of all: love. Built on the foundation of contrasting opposites (dark and light, deep earthen red and delicate sky blue; structured lines and organic curves), the separate panels are joined internally by gold. The dissonance created by these contrasts is resolved by the esoteric concept from which the piece takes its name. “As Above So Below” refers to the idea that the earthly plane is a reflection of the celestial plane and vice versa. Love itself is such a contrast. The pleasure of being together, is contrasted by the knowledge that we are fragile, fallible, and tragically mortal. But those things worth fighting for are often the most transient. Breath. Clean water. We fight for love because it can be lost. And with every heartbreak we continue to love in spite, or perhaps because of this eventual cost.