large SACRED EXCHANGE sticker

There’s an exchange that takes place whenever 2 Beings meet regardless of what their relationship is. There’s a transferral of energies; an exchange of medicine, & in some cases poison.  This piece is about the medicine. 
The figure on the left stands for force and the physical and mental capacities. His war bonnet a display of his achievements & each feather represents an accomplishment and feat that brought him a new right of passage. The figure on the right’s gifts are internalized and intuitive as portrayed through the depths of its watery butterfly wing headdress. 
Their physical eyes are closed and they see through their highest vantage of consciousness instead. 
Before I sold this painting in 2014, I rushed to get it done for display in an ART SHOW.  There were things I had wanted to go deeper into, but shortly after the show, the painting sold and I accepted that it was as it was meant to be. 
I received news that the painting was recently torn in a few places and marked up by a child, and  I brought it into the studio for repair. Both the buyer and I have been through a deep transformation regarding a “Sacred exchange” that we were part of during the course of these last few years and the divine timing was impeccable for an energy clearing and transformation to occur. 
 
 What I had always felt the painting was missing was the transferral of energy. The actual exchange. The painting captured the meeting and the reflection of eachother in the mirrors on their crown, but there was no chemical reaction. To amend this after all these years and changes in our relationships, I allowed the figure on the left to be splashed with the internal gifts of the creative figure on the right, so much so that it created a fertile environment like that growing from the right’s hair sprouting from its headress. The figure on the right is ignited and inspired by the ferocity of the left’s presence in their life as seen by the fire that has burst through its crown. 
 
A sacred exchange is about “leaving your mark” on someone’s life. In honor of the “destructive” force that allowed this transformation to occur. I left a small mark that the child had made on the painting, because this painting’s destruction was perfect purposeful and meant-to-be as part of its creation, (symbolic for any time our lives fall apart and into place) and I consider him a contributing artist. Now this piece is a reflection for us of the beautiful marks that were made; and will continue to be made on our lives, from the sacred exchanges that have taken place to feed us good medicine. 
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This image will also be used as 3 different cards in the #divinationdeck I’m creating.