ORANGE AVATARS, 2025, PART 2
continuation of BLUE AVATARS
The Blue Avatars opened the series with sky and spirit, a universal skin of eternity and solace. Born in the space between illness and transcendence, they carried the light of belonging beyond this world. Yet the journey does not remain only in the heavens.
This orange avatar painting grounds the story in the elements of fire and earth. Figures emerge from soil alive with roots, flames, and blossoms. At the center, fire rises—both destructive and life-giving—while earth steadies beneath, nourishing all that grows. The lamb, the plants, the people: each bound together in one living field, breathing the same rhythm.
In many traditions, fire is the element of transformation—burning away what no longer serves, igniting renewal, passion, and spiritual awakening. Earth is the element of grounding, stability, and memory, holding the wisdom of cycles, birth, and return. Together they speak of survival and resilience: the fire that tests and renews us, and the earth that steadies us when everything else shifts.
The orange that infuses this work carries its own symbolic weight. Across spiritual traditions, orange is the color of vitality, courage, and creativity. In Buddhism and Hinduism it is the hue of renunciation and sacred devotion, worn by monks and ascetics who dedicate their lives to higher truth. In many cultures, orange also represents the warmth of the sun, harvest, and the life force itself. Here it becomes the skin of survival and the glow of transformation, a reminder that life’s fragility is inseparable from its fire.
If blue spoke of memory, peace, and the infinite, orange speaks of survival, transformation, and the raw energy of being alive. It calls us back to the body, to the ground, to the breath that ties us to the living world.
The Avatars series continues to unfold as a language of elements—each color a portal into a different facet of the human and cosmic condition. This work, infused with orange fire and rooted in earth, invites us to remember that healing is both celestial and terrestrial: light that burns, soil that holds, and a belonging that stretches across all worlds.
Where We Begin Again, 209x214cm, silk paint, soft pastel, acrylic, oil on silk