Rebirth: A Return to Love
Inside an artist's journey and creation process
Artist: Lazarie Atkins
Featured artwork is for a future solo exhibit titled "Rebirth: A Return to Love"
Chicago - TBD
Lazarie Atkins creates thought-provoking artwork that combines her creativity and artistic ability with her interest for psychology and spirituality. Her paintings take a journey through life’s many dynamic experiences, exploring: relationships, spirituality, behavior, mentality, emotions, identity, and social issues.
“As an artist, I am a storyteller through whatever means necessary. When I paint, I create to seek ‘truth’, and to explore life’s many dynamic experiences. Most importantly, I create to honor God.”
As a multimedia artist, Lazarie pushes the limits of her creativity by using a variety of materials to manifest her creative influences, but the primary materials used for her paintings are acrylic on canvas. She has performed many live painting performances, and her work can be found throughout private and public collections, and has also been displayed in several exhibitions.
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5. Dark Stage
“My Sacrifice” - Letting Go
“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
“Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.” - Oprah Winfrey
“Letting go is one way of saying I love you.” - Anonymous.
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“The ones who are meant to be in your life won’t be gone forever.” – Cheria Caldwell
“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.” - Gerald Jampolsky
“People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.” - Bill Cosby
“To let go doesn’t mean to stop caring. It means I can’t do it for someone else.
To let go is not to cut myself off. It’s the realization I can’t control another. To let go is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.
To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands.
To let go is not to care for, but to care about.
To let go is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.
To let go is not to be in the middle arranging the outcome, but to allow others to affect their own destinies.
To let go is not to be protective. It’s to permit another to face reality.
To let go is not to deny, but to accept. To let go is not to nag, scold, or argue, but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.
To let go is not to criticize and regulate anybody, but to try to become what I dream I can be.
To let go is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future.
To let go is to fear less and love myself more.” - anonymous poemSacrifice (noun): Something given up or lost
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2. Dark Stage
“Love Interrupted”
What becomes of the broken-hearted? When you lose someone or something that is dear to you, your world feels like it has stopped and you are left standing in moments composed of soft fallen echos of a love that you once known. Whether experiencing the loss of loved ones that have passed on, friendships, romantic love, dreams, for self, or life, love and loss have no prejudices.
The dynamic of the relationship may determine the gravity of the love, but the pull on the heart is relative when it’s time to move on. It hurts! There is no easy way around the healing process but to go through it. And any shortcuts taken may only reappear as later shortcomings. But in time… time does heal.
While the heart mends, love is a kinetic energy, in which it never fully dies but continually transforms and manifests itself into a different shape, new direction and level of intensity. Therefore, feed this energy with positive light instead of darkness, and remember that love is never truly lost, just interrupted…
Love (noun): Warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion
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Interrupt (verb): To break the uniformity or the continuity of
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