patterns

I hung a Ganesha today above the front door shoes. I began working on the Ganesha when a doctor told me I would loose my unborn child. I began the piece when I was still pregnant, and finished it after I lost my daughter at 23 weeks.

Hung in my home across from the Ganesha is a mirror. I made the mirror years ago. The mirror also made in a time of struggle, has the same spiral pattern that is in the back ground of the Ganesha. I did not realize this until I hung the Ganesha next to the mirror that they both have rich blue spirals.

When I decided on a background for the Ganesha, I was thinking about; The Starry Starry Night by Van Gouh (shown above). Did Van Gough have a broken heart when he made these spirals as I was, when I created mine? As I made the spirals I remember feeling comforted and calm, both times.

What do symbols that are repeated in our art work telling us about our subconscious? I would think somewhere, someone else is making a rich blue spiral and it is not a sad moment but a moment of holding together until the next curve.