Reconciling Fire and Water
Quest for Harmony Between
the Inner Feminine and the Inner Masculine
“In the human relationships that are coming, the cup is neither half-full nor half-empty. There is only one awareness in the relationship, so the cup is always overflowing. We will no longer fall in love, we will rise in love. The great love that exists between the yin and the yang will finally shatter the illusion of our separateness and release the endless font of energy from the nucleus of creation itself.”
Richard Rudd, The Gene Keys. Embracing your higher purpose
Mystical Gates to Your Own Divinity
My channeled paper art collages are energy-encoded and are designed for “gazing contemplation”. You gaze, you transform – it’s as simple as that.
Together my art collages form an ever-evolving system of mystical gates or portals that help the gazer to rediscover his or her own divinity. My art collage system facilitates self-discovery and assists in the deepening of your inner balance. It supports better synchronization of your left (masculine) and right (feminine) brain hemispheres, helping to transform the inner conflict between the masculine and the feminine energies within you. Doing this kind of deep shadow work will gradually lead to your greater personal integrity and ultimately may help you re-remember your own divinity and sovereignty (it depends on you, your level of maturity and commitment, of course). In case you wonder, I have to grow into my own artwork too, by integrating within the codes that are there. I’m just an “expressionist painter making a futuristic drawing”… seeing and sensing things ahead of my time, helping to dream new realities into existence. Will you join me?
This gift for visionary art has opened in me as a result of doing a profound Buddhist dharma practice called Prajña Akasagarbha (“wisdom hidden in the womb of space”). My art collages are “downloads from the Universe” that bypass the mind, also my mind! Later I have to “decode” them through contemplation, mainly with the help of such spiritual technologies/living transmissions as The Gene Keys by Richard Rudd and The Sophia Code by Kaia Ra. Also, Matt Kahn continues to be a very rich source of inspiration and deeper understanding for me.
How it all began…
I started creating my paper art collages when a wave of shattering events overtook my life. A life-threatening disease. Inability to take on a regular job. No means of supporting myself. Friends and loved ones that were nowhere to be found when I needed them the most. It all felt like trials by fire and water and was an unexpected result of spontaneous awakening of kundalini energy in my system. In those moments the Universe called to me. “Transmute what doesn’t serve you anymore or die.” And the Universe wasn’t joking. Oh no!
My first collage titled “Yearning for the Earth” depicts my Mother’s parents. I created it on 1 November 2016, spontaneously. No one was more surprised than I. It was All Saints’ Day in Poland. All I had wanted was to somehow honor my deceased ancestors. But that’s how it all began!
At first I wasn’t sure what I was actually doing but felt within my entire being this was a form of soul art therapy, opening my battered heart, more and more, soothing my soul and my exhausted physical body. In other words, I discovered these collages were facilitating the process of my personal integration on a very deep level. Soon I started receiving feedback from other energetically and visually sensitive people. They were telling me my art was “doing something to them”, initiating their own emotional/spiritual healing processes.
How I create my art collages
I create them in hightened states of consciousness/deep contemplative states. While tuning into the theme of a particular collage, I undergo a deep transformational process myself first. I’m the first “beta tester”! That’s how I get to know what each collage does energetically. For this very reason completing collages that cover the most emotionally triggering topics often takes a looong time, in many cases even a few years. I channel or “download” each art collage in stages, and continue working on a particular collage only when it gets “activated” again, after I have integrated its energies or codes in my own system.
I seek to create harmony out of mismatched elements. As my personal mission is to reconcile qualities that are seemingly unreconcilable – fire within water, light within dark, hot within cold, the masculine and the feminine. I cut most elements in my collages into the shape of waves (the feminine) and flames (the masculine). I’m shown how to match motifs, shapes and colors in a way that makes them “cooperate” rather than “compete”. It’s supposed to be a love affair, not a war. Maybe even a happy marriage?
I cut out the elements for my collages with scissors! Apparently so precisely that people tend to think my artwork is digitally made, even if I tell them it’s not. Maybe I’m a heart-art surgeon? I have to create in matter. Though I’m as far from being a materialist as you can imagine, matter is as scared to me as Spirit. Matter matters.
As “I dare to see beauty in everything”, in my creative process I not only use images taken from old paper magazines, wall calendars and postcards but also from materials that seem to have nothing to do with visionary art, such as empty paper tissue boxes (my favourite materials!), all sorts of advertising booklets, perfume and jewelry catalogues, paper tea/herb boxes, gift bags etc. I use everything that “calls on me”.
It’s of great importance to me personally that I do a kind of recycled art, transforming waste materials and seemingly useless or just unwanted things into new creations of new value. In this way I express my deep respect and gratitude for Mother Earth and her valuable resources. I abhor wasting, including wasting time, energy and even my own traumas!
Symbolism
Nothing is randomly chosen in my artwork – neither plant and animal motifs, nor shapes or colours. I’ve been guided to use recurring motifs and materials to design a visual (and at the same time energetic or vibrational) system with secret passages leading from one collage to another. The titles, mysterious as they may sound, are very important – they are like keys unlocking specific energetic locks in the gazing person.
Why to work with my collages and how to do it?
You might be asking “What’s that got to do with me?” A lot, because “what we are healing in ourselves, we are helping to transform in all” (Matt Kahn, Everything Is Here to Help You).
Working with my collages is very simple – you just contemplate them with the intention of opening to receiving your highest good for the benefit of all, whatever it might turn out to be. Though it may seem otherwise, we often know what we want but we have no idea what we truly need. However, the Limitless Universe always “knows it for us” and it’s a reeeally good idea to trust it, freeing ourselves from the need to control Life.
Who are my collages designed for?
For curious experimenters, emotionally and spiritually brave. For those “who have eyes to see and ears to hear”. And for those who believe… in miracles. For those whose current mindset can contain the idea that staring at the right image with the right intention may help to integrate inner shadows and splits. Because magic and miracles are just a shift in perception, and “reasonable is lowering the bar of miraculous” (Matt Kahn, Reclaim Your Power). There are countless signs that we have been collectively “hacked” by left-brain perception. And when we look at the world mainly through the lens of what’s logical, we cut ourselves from the only true magic – the magick of an open Heart.
How to choose the most suitable collage for the current phase of your inner journey?
From my experience, the most suitable collage for someone is always the one that is evoking an emotional reaction (which can be accompanied by some sensations in their body). It’s best to choose with your right, illogical brain hemisphere. Feel the collages with your senses first, and read the descriptions afterwards. Try not to be too influenced by them. Selecting a collage based mainly on its description may be a subconscious attempt to bypass some stages of your journey of integration, e.g. “I’ll take the collage for attracting abundance because I could use more money”. The collage that is the most hypnotizing to you is the one to start with. From what I’ve experienced, you get chosen by the collage, not the other way round.
Milena Bianga
Testimonials
Many years ago, when I was visiting the Museum of Icons in Supraśl, Poland, the museum guide told us: “The light of icons lights us up, illuminating our souls. It’s not us praying to the icon… it’s the icon praying for us.” Her words gave me a thrill and for a tiny moment I felt I got in touch with something profoundly true. Later in my life I’ve often perceived icons not as simply artworks but portals. The art collage “In the heart of the Forest”/”From the Lotus Sutra”, which I personally call “my Buddhist Jesus”, for me is like an icon – it emits light and this way communicates with the gazer. At least that’s my personal experience. This particular collage by Milena is like a space where I can meet “my personal Jesus” (a term coined by the band Depeche Mode). And I find solace in these intimate encounters.
Ola Piechnik, Gdynia, Poland