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Photographic images with spirit and a sense of place.
Studio, Art Works Downtown Art Center
1337 4th Street (at D)
San Rafael, California USA
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Artist's Statement:
I am an on artist on a mission, traveling as a seeker, on a pilgrimage for expressions of the sacred, tracking remnants of alignment and clues to ancient wisdom. As a photographer, I create images out of phantoms in the corner of my eye, working ceremonially, intuitively, determinedly, and decisively to communicate the beauty and power and presence of place.
Sacred places have a powerful accumulated energy, echoed and enriched by each individual visitor, and sanctuaries are a repository for human memory. There is a visceral recognition, the shock of the sacred. There is a place within me that calls me to holy locations, a place with such intense need to linger within fields of sacredness that I become homesick if I am too long away. The inner soul landscape is fed, refined, caressed by visiting external sacred landscapes.
A personal relationship to land and Nature is fundamental to our health and the well being of our psyche. Ancient sacred precincts hold physical and energetic patterns of vital force; consciously stepping into the influence of these sites can invite profound realignment of an individual, bringing health, vitality, and alertness by involving us in the unity of awakened integrated presence. By consciously mapping external sacred landscapes, we learn to recognize places of health and how to make whole our inner soul landscapes through actively visualizing, remembering and inventing healing images based on visual and sensory memories of actual locations. By participating in ritual, we can focus human consciousness to channel light, awareness, spirit. Standing in sacred space, we are the intersection between the inner and outer worlds, the awakened gateway between thought and the stars.
Archetypal architecture and symbolic designs such as labyrinths can function as visual examples of healthy relationships through the symmetry of sacred geometry, and be instantly accessible gateways to the mythic levels of mind which tap the repositories of human memory. Traveling as a pilgrim orients us to the essence and interconnectedness of all life and strengthens our sense of greater purpose and global community. To rest in a place of sacredness is to be whole; to be whole is to be healed.
And how can we individually and collectively respond to the call of the Divine? Perhaps as art always has, by clarifying a moment, freezing an image, holding an idea, insisting we transcend our details, by showing us what it means to be human, accepting and celebrating the essence and interconnectedness of existence. The observing artist recognizes latent sacred space and interacts, co-creates, records. Art can take us to the essence of the sacred, inviting us into the intersection between potential and activation. Walking a labyrinth can take us into the essence of ourselves, inviting conscious choice to change, to heal, to direct and apply our life’s energy. The Labyrinth is heart and holder of spirit and grace. Walking the labyrinth, the labyrinth walks us. May you glimpse your own perfection, a moment of perfect health, wholeness and presence. Blessings on your Path.
Fine Artist and Professional Photographer, Labyrinth Chronicler, Presenter.
Cindy A. Pavlinac is a fine art photographer and writer specializing in images which convey the beauty and mystery and power of place, working on location throughout Europe and North America photographing ancient sanctuaries and modern expressions of the sacred. An exhibiting artist since 1974 and multimedia presenter since 1978, her images have won numerous awards. Her photography has appeared in over 500 publications, including as Principal Photography for the books Labyrinths and Sanctuaries of the Goddess. Other publications include Living the Labyrinth, Sacred Space, Atlas of Holy Places and Sacred Sites, and in the magazines Time, Glamour, Self, Spirituality & Health, Elixir, Catalist, Crescent, Healthy Living, Family Circle, Body Mind Spirit, Women of Power, Shaman’s Drum, and Utne Reader. One of her labyrinth photos was chosen for Time Magazine’s Pictures of the Year 2002. Her photos have also been featured in calendars and brochures, and on posters, greeting cards, post cards, music CDs, television, DVDs and web sites.
Ms. Pavlinac's exhibited fine art photography awards include Gourmet Magazine’s Travel Photography, Mill Valley Weekend and KINSA Kodak awards. She regularly presents her multimedia productions Mystical Britain and Labyrinths of Spirit and Grace featuring hundred of slides with original music for conferences and galleries.
Cindy earned a Masters Degree in Arts and Consciousness Studies focusing on the use of art and dance for healing in ancient cultures, and a B.A. in Fine Art Photography, minoring in astrophysics, with foreign study in Athens and Rome in archaeology. She is Certified as a Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator and Institute for Movement Psychology Instructor. Her writings have appeared in dozens of publications including a chapter in Earthwalking Sky Dancers: Women’s Pilgrimages to Sacred Places. She was also an editor of Shaman’s Drum Magazine and Editor-in-Chief of Artists Dialogue.
Labyrinths have featured prominently in her work and travels since 1982 and she has several book projects nearing completion. Cindy has been visiting ancient sacred sites and special places ever since Apollo hollered at her in Delphi in 1977. She strives to bridge the ancient with the modern and to inspire people through images, words, music, and performance.
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