Too the Moon – Artist Susan Krieg – 12″ x 12″ Acrylic and Neon on Board in Daylight

The lunar flyby of Artemis II is underway as I type this. I guess you could say this is “projection” on a couple of levels. In this painting I am projecting myself into the role of one of the astronauts who is presently traveling toward the moon. I am also projecting myself off the planet in my merkaba (light body.) That’s one of the fun things about making art. In my opinion art is a snapshot in time of what the mind can manifest in imagination.

I have painted a representation of myself in my star tetrahedron, traveling towards the earth’s moon and I see the Artemis II ahead of me. Google’s meaning of Merkaba is a divine rotating “vehicle of light” derived from sacred geometry and ancient mysticism, representing the union of body, spirit and light. Structurally, it is a 3D star tetrahedron formed by two intersecting tetrahedrons spinning in opposite directions, acting as a personal energy field meant to provide protection, balance opposing energies, and aid in ascending to higher states of consciousness.

The above photo is taken in normal daylight. Below you can see how different it looks with less daylight and adding neon.

Too the Moon in Bright Bulb Light and Neon Lighting. I like how the middle looks very flower-like. Not surprising, I began the drawing with the Flower of Life. That is a sacred geometry symbol composed of overlapping circles. The overlap creates repeating vesica pisces (the 6 deep magenta petal shapes.)
Too the Moon in Medium Bulb light and Neon. From 6 different points that the flower of life created I drew one equilateral triangle pointing down and one pointing up.
Too the Moon in Low Bulb Light and Neon. By painting over the figure using neon paint, the figure begins to show up more. She is supposed to look like she’s sitting with her feet under her, from the backside, arms raised and looking over her left shoulder.
Too the Moon in Neon Lighting. If I were to do this as a larger painting, I would get a model to pose for a better figure seated position. I also see where I need to change a couple positions of the tetrahedron to look like they are inside each other 3 dimensionally.

This was a ‘just for fun’ piece. With geometry as the basis, it is possible to just play and let one’s imagination take the spotlight and not be too serious.

I used Liquitex acrylics and Nova acrylic polymer neon paint on a 12″ x 12″ compressed wood board.