Balance

Quantity in Basket: none Price: $56.00

Quantity:

Description: The sterling silver Balance pendant is 1.75" x 1.25" in size. I created the Balance design while on an artist retreat in the Florida Keys. I was spending the week in a small cottage at Sugarloaf Women's Village along with my sketchbook and some of my carving tools. Often I draw the infinity symbol or the hourglass figure and try to feel them in my body. Both symbols inspire me and I feel like they are almost as fundamental as the circle, spiral, triangle, square and cross. Trying to put on paper what infinity feels like is certainly something that one cannot really put on paper. But one day I decided to go at it with focus and determination. So, with wild abandon I drew a series of spontaneous scribbles flipping page after page. I was dancing wildly on paper transferring my feelings through my hand, into the pencil and onto the page. After awhile I got the big 'aha'. There it is! It came to be known as 'Balance' also knows as 'Infinity Come Undone'. It was the quickest design I ever did on paper. Completing work with it is a whole other story as I can not seem to be done with it. I have carved and sculpted several small pieces and now find myself planning one 6 to 20 feet tall. In the 'dance of balance' I feel two forces energetically connected to each other. They need each other, they adore each other, and they repel each other. This force may be the very tension that creates life itself. The Natural Law of Duality or law of attraction and repulsion seems to govern the whole of creation. It manifests as yin and yang, sadness and joy, male and female, light and dark. If these forces are not held in balance in our own life, or in the world, life can be very uneasy, painful and diseased. Like the pause between the 'in' breath and the 'out' breath or feeling at the top of a ferris wheel, all things are in equilibrium when there is balance. Maintaining this sense of balance seems to take constant precision, effort, attention and grace. 'Hold all the pain and suffering of samsara (suffering) in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the great Eastern Sun (nirvana, joy), and then you can make a proper bowl of tea'. Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. K's Balance design has been chosen as the signature logo for an exciting new non-profit organization Pursue Balance. The mission of Pursue Balance is to "exist in kindness to offer information, education, and grants helping people achieve personal and environmental balance." To learn more about Pursue Balance, its energetic founders, and programs and visions for the future, we hope you will visit their website,(http://www.pursuebalance.org/).

Related Item(s)

Name Image Price   Balance Small - 14K Gold $103.00 Balance Small $43.00