Welcome
Alixandra Summitt combines nature and the mythic
dimension
in her art to bring forth the healing available in
each
moment. Her intent is to transport the viewer to a
place of
deep serenity within themselves. Her unusual
juxtapositions
like the ‘back’ of a zinnia on the right-hand panel
above,
or the details of the zinnia’s deep center pictured on
the
left, evoke harmony and balance with the environment.
You
may notice the praying deva in the center panel of Summitt’s
9
x 5 foot painting pictured above. This was painted
from an
actual photograph taken by orchid photographer,
Lili Botchis, whose
work is featured in Summitt’s art videos, Heart and Solar Plexus
Focus,
available on this web site. The template for each of Summitt’s leaps in
consciousness is foreshadowed in her painting and sculpture where she
works out her answers to the meaning of life. Summitt’s goal is to help
us look honestly at the question of what is our source energy-and what
feeds our spirit to makes us whole.
A bronze figure
portrays the
seeker reaching for higher consciousness in the quest to connect with
essential spirit. The soul here is depicted as a lotus. Invisible to
most, the ‘rainbow bridge’ or silver chord is split into two strands so
that it becomes visible.
The playful range of Summitt’s perception can be seen in the circus scene on the next page where a costumed Marilyn Monroe reacts with fear as depicted by her ashen skin when she is hoisted onto an elephant. Her assistant’s green arm and hand could indicate some danger in metaphorically placing women on pedestals.
Summitt is
concerned with
inspiring women’s full participation in the balance of power through
her work. In the Peru series, she uses the Hopi legend anticipating a
flowering of culture when the eagle from the North and condor of the
South were said to meet in the Andes. As a speaker on a on a trip to
Machu Picchu, Summitt witnessed the fulfillment of this legend and
expressed the ‘flowering’ in the Emergence of the Goddess, Liberty
series.
In Summitt’s early iconography, the Goddess Euronyome,
danced on the waves to bring the world into being. In her new series,
she sees circles of women dancing to create peace. In Summit’s mind
map, art sets the spiral of growth and change spinning. Her visual
templates serve as harbingers of healing discoveries as we shift into
the new way of looking at our experience. As her focus on healing
research and practice intensified in the last few years, so has her
vision. Summitt facilitates classes, workshops and retreats and accepts
commissions.