Power of A Prayer : A Mandala and Ambient set by gentle universe and me as the one setting the mandala and doing the prayer for the Yolanda Typhoon Victims.

Typoon Yolanda/Haiyan is one of the terrifying tropical cyclone ever recorded that hit Leyte (Tacloban city) Philippines, It happened in early-November 2013 and horrifically killed a lot of our fellow filipinos. In times like this our greatest armour is a prayer because as how nature is naturally as it is and God is the only one in control I will always have faith in being spiritually prayerful in every circumstance...

This was the 2nd time that Cris frontman of Gentle Universe invited me to lead a prayer and set up the mandala with his instructions regarding the flowers and candles he prepared for that day :)

I feel honoured to be part of such event and happy to be remembered by such kind family oriented band to be part of their performance :)

Here's a video recorded by my brother ralph, as I conduct the prayer and mandala session. ( Sorry for the poor video quality for I was only using my iphone and theres not enough light as well..)

Before the mandala session, we also played a song collaborated by me and stanley (gentle universe musician) it's entitled Baby Bear, It was a song he once shared to me while I was chatting with him in FB and I reverted it back with my voice recording and some improvised lyrics I inputed, It's a story of a Big baby bear that is exploring the jungle. You can also hear that music via stanley's soundcloud page - https://soundcloud.com/stanley-castelo/baby-bear-voice-and-letters-by

Doodling.

Photos above are few of my doodles which was exhibited many years ago, the one 1st on top entitled: Doodle of my mind was exhibited during our Inwardbound Art Exhibit which happened last year 2010.  The next photo below it is entitled: Staying Still, which was exhibited last year 2011 on our Universe Manifesto Exhibit.

Ever since childhood I already love doodling its a free style approach in understanding my self and communicating to my inner self like " Hi self, what's kept in your subconscious? Is it good for you and others? does it empowers and strengthen you? what's our plan to make things better dear self? "

I have also researched some other techniques in doodling to make it more efficient to the diverse society. this website: http://enchantedmind.com/html/creativity/techniques/art_of_doodling.html is very well detailed in explaining the effectivity of doodling.

I love how it stated few excerpts: (know more as you click on its link)

It is well established that much of our creative expression is birthed in the unconscious mind. To use creative expression and solutions in your everyday life, it is necessary to dip into the unconscious at will. Doodling is one way of doing this.

Doodling allows the unconscious to render in symbolic expression. Symbols have universal as well as personal meaning. When you are stuck for an answer to a problem or looking for creative innovation, the technique of doodling will unleash the hidden symbolic powers of the unconscious mind. Symbols are a universal means of expression. Regardless of culture or geographic location, certain symbols have similar if not exactly the same meaning across the human spectrum. Carl Jung pioneered the investigation of symbols as archetypal attributes of the collective unconscious. He realized that the universe projects itself to our unconscious minds symbolically, utilizing imagery to transmit ideas that language cannot. Symbols are the universal language.

Improvisation Vocals Artist - Amiya...

As a simple girl who loves to explore music of different genre, and for being a child who loves making voices and sings in her own style in different sounds she can hear, autistic as it may look, I found a way to really experiment, vocalize and be creative in the path of honing my style. My influence in meditation made me sensitive and intuitive in expressing my vocals during an improvisation jam without any preparation, rehearsal or school education in music I can jive with mostly any sound specially electronic and synth sounds. Though I've been Independent in composing my songs with my minimal music knowledge and materials, I can also Improvise my self each time I do underground folk indie performances which started after My college ska post punk/experimental rock (Rainy Lullaby) - college band disbanded.
Back to Improvisation vocals, I'm grateful for some improvisation collaboration jam with bands such as Gentle Universe, Cosmopolitan Smoke Stabs and Firefly logic.

The Videos below are some of my early takes in vocals improvisation collaboration jam.

Birth - Art Exhibit - Universe Manifesto - September 11. 2011

As I flash back to our event last September 11, 2011 - Universe Manifesto - I suddenly remembered my special loved artwork entitled BIRTH - It's the photo 1st on top, third from left, showing a moustached lady looking face expressing union of male and female to come up with the baby or birth of life. this artwork came to kind peoples attention, it was Toni Bernardo and her Mom who talked with me about it, then I shared my exhibit diary to show the story of each art work and they are very nice and bought the artwork after a few days. I never knew much about Toni Bernardo aside from her humble, sweet and kind energy when we met up in Quantum Cafe then after a few weeks when I went to watch Earth Dance in The Fort I saw her, her mom and other family members then there I found out that She is the director of Escola De Samba De Manila, She leads the drumming and does strong vibrant vocals, They also travelled outside the country to show their music and performance. She's really a role model leader, I really feel a bit shy when i think of her kindness and cool performance in Earthdance and for giving time to check my humble artwork that time. She's really great! 

Photos below is my Universe Manifesto Exhibit Private Diary, another photo is the excerpt of the painting Birth. 

Memories of Soul Liberation - an artwork.

Way back year 2007, I stayed in a didis quarter in laspinas. it's a house where lady monks stay, I've learnt so many things from them. My Acharya Didi Rainjita who's a yogini monk from malaysia taught me some lessons about meditation. I can recall the time when it was just the 2 of us inside the room and she explained that meditation is universal and should be a universal practice, even an atheist, agnostic or any deity or God worshiper from any sect or religion should/can be given the chance to experience it. Belief and Experience are very different, An example could be to hear from someone that one band is good and get its buy in yet experience is attending the bands concert watch, hear and feel them live. It's the same from spirituality it can be written down in kazillion of scriptures yet no words nor scriptures can fully describe it for it's meant to be experienced by our God given gift of human senses. The painting on top is an oil painting i did while I was staying in a yoga house. The title is Liberation of the soul.

PaintBrush Pens

Few days ago when I went to the art supplies shop to buy a watercolor pad, cause I want to explore my senses in a new medium that I haven't tried yet which is water color, then I saw this paintbrush pens, it only has 5 colors in it, it looks handy, fun and an instant back packing art stuff to put out for instant coloring. It's fun to use cause I can just squeeze its middle to excrete some more inks. I gave it a quick try and i came up with an instant art (photo shown) It's a fetus inside a root like embryo below the tree. I was not mindful when i came up with this idea, it suddenly just came out while i play with the brushes, Suddenly i wonder what if there is really some unborn creatures below some trees.. And if we keep on cutting trees to manufacture it, these creatures won't come to birth. and if nobody will dig each soil to check if there's a baby below it how can they even know if they had already cut a precious creature of life.