Cougar in Jungle - id: 016, c. 2008-2010
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 40 in (76 x 101 cm)
2008_2010_07_016
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Cougar in Jungle 'In 2006, Ariane and I went to a yoga retreat in Costa Rica and it was a very enjoyable and unique experience. Ariane always liked massages...
Cougar in Jungle
"In 2006, Ariane and I went to a yoga retreat in Costa Rica and it was a very enjoyable and unique experience. Ariane always liked massages and she had a session of body talk that piqued her curiosity. When she returned to New York she took bodytalk courses and became a certified practitioner, and began to work in a bodytalk center in Manhattan. She was interested in studying the body's systems, especially energy paths of the organism that spread out like the branches of a tree, its effects upon the health and emotions of a person, and how to balance them. She also learned Reiki and cranial sacral techniques. She started going to the meditation group Orkie. I particularly remember one day when I went to visit her—Ariane had moved and now lived alone with her two cats in a one bedroom apartment near Prospect Park. One felt good in that apartment—it had a harmonious atmosphere. One day after lunch Ariane did a cranial sacral massage on me. With closed eyes I saw colored lights and felt relaxed and transported to another place full of joy and peace. At that time, Ariane was painting “Cougar in Jungle", a brown cougar with the legs and arms of a man, who holds his heart in his hand, whose red arteries extend into the jungle delineating the green leaves. The colors are pure and vibrant; violet and red bring out the bright green leaves; the expression of the cougar is mystical and with intent."
— Carmen Marianovich, recollection written in 2016.
Title assigned in book Ariane, p. 119
"In 2006, Ariane and I went to a yoga retreat in Costa Rica and it was a very enjoyable and unique experience. Ariane always liked massages and she had a session of body talk that piqued her curiosity. When she returned to New York she took bodytalk courses and became a certified practitioner, and began to work in a bodytalk center in Manhattan. She was interested in studying the body's systems, especially energy paths of the organism that spread out like the branches of a tree, its effects upon the health and emotions of a person, and how to balance them. She also learned Reiki and cranial sacral techniques. She started going to the meditation group Orkie. I particularly remember one day when I went to visit her—Ariane had moved and now lived alone with her two cats in a one bedroom apartment near Prospect Park. One felt good in that apartment—it had a harmonious atmosphere. One day after lunch Ariane did a cranial sacral massage on me. With closed eyes I saw colored lights and felt relaxed and transported to another place full of joy and peace. At that time, Ariane was painting “Cougar in Jungle", a brown cougar with the legs and arms of a man, who holds his heart in his hand, whose red arteries extend into the jungle delineating the green leaves. The colors are pure and vibrant; violet and red bring out the bright green leaves; the expression of the cougar is mystical and with intent."
— Carmen Marianovich, recollection written in 2016.
Title assigned in book Ariane, p. 119
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitionso Light Arrow, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC, 2019.
Publications
o Ariane. José Ignacio Abeijón. Spain, 2019. ISBN: 978-84-09-09746-3.