A mountain perched on a butterfly...

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Favorite website: http://edevstudio.com

When it comes to peace, how would you describe yourself?: I'm just a peaceful person

What do you believe are the 'burning issues' today?: War, Hunger, Poverty, Education, Our Planet, Violence, Inflation, Human Rights, Our Shrinking Freedom, Other

So what is it?: Animal Rights

What must we overcome to achieve peace?: Fear

More: Indoctrinated belief systems encapsulating all of our thoughts bring forth fear...divisiveness...

We all want the same thing as souls..we forget that we are connected.

Can we change the world?: Definitely

More about me: I am an artist, columnist and teacher. Most of all I am a student of life.

Because my life has been compared to that of a mystic I can only describe this journey in a rather indefinable way! For years I arose pre-dawn and traipsed through nature amongst the flower friends. Sometimes I would lie in beds of calla lilies as the dawn's first rays hit the centre of the orange stamens. It was all about light and colour. I felt like the early impressionist painters as the sun stamped its fragmentary impression endlessly as the light changed and my lens sought to capture each tiny shift.. Thus the flowers which I ended up photographing over and over often had translucent petals or large pads (the lotus).
Sometimes I would purchase all sorts of varieties of peonies or brugmansia and simply immerse them in bowls of water allowing the water and light to do their magic. One became a co-creator with the flower as it shifted and flowed.
From thousands of photographs the images were culled down to a select few. For months afterwards I would contemplate the photographs allowing their "soul" message to speak to me. Then the creative process digitally would commence. I would meditate then work individually with each photograph to enhance and flow with the photograph until its essence began to emerge.
It is difficult to encapsulate what is occurring here. Perhaps this process could be defined as "immersing myself in the Divine Source of Creation" and allowing my "individual expression of Divine Source to co-create with the original pure creative expression." The end result is how one may experience Creation through one's own Spiritual lens.
My heartfelt desire is that these images hang in hospitals, hospices, homes for the elderly, rehabilitation centers and healing facilities so that those who are in pain or suffering in any manner can receive solace and be Divinely inspired.
Eliza

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At 11:05am on July 2, 2010, Eva said…: Hello,

iPeace will be closed shortly.. Here you can find a new home.

http://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/

You are cordially invited.

Warm regards, Eva

At 9:15pm on December 28, 2008, David Gould said…: An Open Hand

Here is my open hand
please take my only gift,
I have nothing to give
but my loyalty and love.

I am poor and simple
I have no gold to give
but here is my heart
within this open hand.

Clasp my hand please
and share friendship now,
we will be so much stronger
helping each other together.

By David Gould © 18th August 2008

At 5:18am on December 28, 2008, Kaycie said…: Elizabeth,
your artwork and being with the flowers is beautiful and touches the soul. thank you for sharing with us.
In peace,
Kaycie

At 9:08pm on December 10, 2008, Heimo Grimm said…: Hello Elisabeth! Thank you for the friend add. I am very pleased to be your friend! It is nice to see you here among my friends from all over the world. I wish you all the love, peace and light you can imagine. May the sun always shine brightly in your heart and may our common dream of worldwide peace become true. Blessings, all good wishes and a welcome hug xo coming to you to USA with this little dove as an ambassador of peace from your Austrian friend Heimo