“My art explores the alchemy of emotion—energy in motion. I’m drawn to what lies beneath: personal insights, ancestral threads, and contemplations on life’s layered mysteries. Through mixed media, I use expressive lines, bold colours, and gold to reveal messages that want to emerge.” Anika Qureshi
Personal emotional states are also universal when we step back. Telling a story of cycles and discovering a way through. Everything in this piece revolves around, “There is a universe inside me”. The layers around are, what I deem to be, mirrored opposites, polarized thoughts. Polarization brings many emotions, and levels of vibration. It is part of the journey to have ebs and to know flows. This propels change.
Bottom and left:
Feelings of sickness, frustration, anger, despair, confusion, hard to see the light, wiggling in your stomach, knowing there is something else.
Top and right:
The way through takes going inside, facing yourself, accepting, seeing other perspectives, loving each step and yourself deeply. Realizing that you are not mixed up in it all, you are the observer engaging in the process. Perfectly imperfect.
Twenty-five frames make up this piece. The spiritual significance of this number is relevant. It means; change is good; embrace it. It may not be easy when opening up to a new sense of self. This number relates to intuition, self-awareness, introspection, wisdom, and cycles. Building resilience.