encounters with nondual awareness

Eva Cockova, Diamond in the Lotus 1
 

Eva Cockova, All I Can Remember 11

Images © copyright Eva Cockova

Cockova's works are altarpieces, openings into a dimension of measureless depth, mystery and magic. Her creative spirit drinks at diverse fonts of imagery – from travels in remote Ladakh, from archives of arcane glyphs and scripts, from the vast and wordless non-place called meditation. But her work transcends the superficial or merely decorative response. Its speech is a synthesis of the sacred and the pragmatic, expressing the gesture of true creativity brought into being by innumerable questions unfettered by conclusions, by solitude and surrender, by passionate patience and by spontaneous celebration.

To meet these works is to meet humanity and its story. Layer upon layer of lifestream, layers of language, layers sanded back, obliterated, re-laid, layers of toil and time. Place yourself on a small cushion with no distraction save the beating of a quiet heart. If you can be still and silent the traces of Eva Cockova's encounter with Creation will be apparent to you as sacred scripture.

And you will say:  Here I read the roots of my race.

Source: Eva Cockova reviewed by Miriam Louisa Simons, 2004

"Many of my paintings reflect my interest in the spirituality of organic mechanics of nature. They are a calligraphic expression of the relationships of the worlds of DNA, star orbits, circuit boards, movements of subatomic particles, flow of hormones, patterns of language, layers of history."
Source: Eva Cockova's website

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