PrairieOcean

RPMy business name is:
Prairie Ocean Bodywork
~Inspired by the Well within~

Here is the picture of me that a friend took.

RPDone well, that would be a work of art in and of itself! I would be very excited to see how you could do that.

RPYou know that face seen earlier this week, the awe-struck-gawk, well, it’s here again, and then some.

I LOVE IT! Captures that love from my childhood of watching the prairie waves! And, it merges well with the ocean waves. You really are an exceptional artist, thank you eternally for the love you have put forth here!

1This is beautiful!! I am captivated by it — can’t stop looking at it. The imagery of the ebb and flow of pairie and ocean is such a sensual capturing of the rhythms of our bodies, and I am moved by the prairie woman holding onto the one short, but growing tree (of life?). Also love the colors — so peaceful. I think of them as healthy human-tones (pale unblemished skin, bright clear eyes, pure natural hair colors – baby blond & gracefully gray).

2Breathtaking (breath-finding?) and transporting. I love it. It opens me out before I can register what I’m looking at.

3Looks fabulous! I like the way the ocean and the prairie are combined. The wave coming out of the prairie really pulls them together in a dynamic way.

4I like it but I can’t quite see the significance of the green leafed tree unless it means renewal. Is it a tree one would find on the prairies? The dry grassland blending into the ocean works well.

5That’s really cool! !!!!

6I REALLY love this pic. Bringing together all the elements of the plains the mountains and the sea in way that is evocative is unimaginably difficult to me, but you managed to do it well. my only comment is that the relationship between the character and the tree is a little confusing, but that may be due to the fact that I can’t see it at full resolution. It looks like she is holding onto the tree, but that is unclear. Im thinking that if she was standing next to the tree so that the entire trunk were visible and she was more casually caressing the tree about a foot scale distance away (as if she was affectionately running her hand down the upper arm of a lover while they were both watching a sunset), that it would be clearer. Great work. Thanks for sharing!

7I think this is beautiful as many of your comments have stated. The colors are beautiful, calming, like a pastel painting. The transition from the prairie to the ocean and the mountains are seamless. The only thing that seemed out of place to me was the tree or the tree and the woman. I also, do not get the relationship of the woman and the tree … it just sort of looks stuck on not part of the overall picture.
Beautiful job…

RPBefore receiving your latest message I was having questions of my own about the tree. Trees are a powerful symbol … I wondered if there was a specific tree that I wanted to have its medicine represented. How interesting that your test group had similar questions about my relationship to the tree. As I go through images of high desert trees, junipers and joshua trees seem the most abundant, of which, joshua trees I do actually have a relationship with. But … no one really gets that close and personal with them. I began wondering if maybe there was a different item all together that could be in my hands, like a long walking stick. Still a carrier of medicine, yet indicating that there is a journey ahead, possible to reach the mountain, or distant end of the sea. A walking stick might a a simple solution that still carries meaning for me. What do you think?

RPMy first instinct is to not be attached to having my “image” on the banner. What you have presented here is striking. I like the openness of the spaces. That feels good to my eyes.

RPAfter thinking it over, I love what the tree brings to the picture, contrast and a break in the vastness that solidifies the depth of the landscape.