Art on its way to Moss, Norway for charity....

This little postcard of art by Zayra Yves is on its way to Moss, Norway to be part of an exhibition that will feature 140 Twitter artists. The project was put together by four Twitter Tweeps with David Sandum (www.davidsandum.com) leading the blog and call for artists. The charity is for their local library with the art exhibition project as an event to raise funds for their children's books. This is how David described the idea and process in his blog:

"For a while the project seemed impossible. How would one coordinate such a thing? But then a few weeks ago, I read an article in the local paper, saying how the public library had gotten it's funding cut and wouldn't be able to order the children's books they needed. It then struck me this was the perfect venue for a twitter art project. And soon the idea of a wall of art work at the library, where it's proceeds would go to charity/children's books, was stuck in my brain. But how would I gather all the work? The answer felt as swift as Twitter itself: Have each artist send a postcard (symbolic of a tweet), with hand-painted original artwork. The postcards would then be posted on the wall and sold for 100 kr each ($17.00), and all the money would go to children's books. This amount would make it possible for nearly everyone to support the public library, and if we collected enough artwork, enough money would be raised."

After an email exchange, Zayra's art was welcomed into the exhibition! For more information follow zayrayves and davidsandumart on Twitter!

Our Heart Song Returns

by Zayra Yves

On the wings
of grace
our heart song
returns
with the beauty
of places
she has been
now
transformed by
the golden goodness
of souls
who opened
for her warmth.

She returns
on fire
with the purity
of spirit,
with the sweetness
of those
she has loved
lingering
on her lips
and the charm
of life
in the swing
of her hips.

She arrives
as new love
right into the center
of your being
where you gratefully
embrace her,
welcome her
home.

(photo and poem by Zayra Yves)
www.zayrayves.com

Faded Hieroglyphs Receives First Prize

Zayra's poem Faded Hieroglyphs receives the honor of first place in the African Legends competition hosted by Michele Stewart, in honor of the White Lion Global Protection Trust and the Leopard Conservation Project. African Legends is destined to be a beautiful coffee table book with magnificent artwork, additional creative writing and inspired poety. It is such a heart warming joy and honor to be included in this collection of work.

Zayra would like to thank Linda Tucker of the White Lion Global Protection Trust, Fred Berrange of the Leopard Conservation Project, Michele Stewart, and the other judges, for their heart centered approach to life, to creating a sacred place for such magnificent beings, and for including Zayra's poetry in their visionary work.

When the book becomes available, we will send out an announcement. In the meantime, feel free to support the White Lion Global Protection Trust (www.whitelions.org) and the Leopard Conservation Project (www.leopardcon.co.za).

Interview with Suzanne Barnett

The interview with Suzanne Barnett is now available on YouTube! It was great fun! Check it out!

 

Zayra's new book "The Secrets of Unknown Flowers" due to be released soon.

Plus there is a new audio collection in the works "Love Takes the Long Way Home"...

more to come...

Time to Celebrate Art!

Zayra's art postcard celebrates the marriage of art and poetry in her new studio space. For an appointment to view her studio email: zayra.yves@gmail.com

What fills your mind?

“One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche is that we all want to be told because we are the result of the propaganda of ten thousand years. We want to have our thinking confirmed and corroborated by another, whereas to ask a question is to ask it of yourself. What I say has very little value. You will forget it the moment you shut this book, or you will remember and repeat certain phrases, or you will compare what you have read here with some other book – but you will not face your own life. And that is all that matters – your life, yourself, your pettiness, your shallowness, your brutality, your violence, your greed, your ambition, your daily agony and endless sorrow – that is what you have to understand and nobody on earth or in heaven is going to save you from it but yourself.”

J KRISHNAMURTI

Color Me Pomegranate Arrives in San Francisco

NEW BOOK RELEASE: Color Me Pomegranate

The pomegranate, as a symbol and for its color, has historical meaning for women both in mythology and literature. Zayra's literary poetic collection, Color Me Pomegranate, travels through the many layers of mythical women turned into real women living these myths out in every day life. On the pages of this collection, we encounter Aphrodite, Medusa, Meda, Persphone, Athena, Inanna, Ishtar, Gaia, Sophia, Durga, Kali, Mary, The Black Madonna, Eve, Anne Sexton, Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath, Kiki de Montpamasse, Lee Miller, Berthe Morisot, Joan of Arc and the Scarlet Woman in all vessels, in every woman's body. It is the fall and resurrection of all women within the mystical experiences, which are often times as full of suffering, as they are gritty, and soft on the emotional path toward the alchemy of self discovery, self acceptance and self love for the spiritual evolution and content of the feminine. The book ends in the rise of all women through the Goddess in a transfiguration: "I am SHE."


Book Review for Color Me Pomegranate:

"Zayra Yves' latest work "Color Me Pomegranate" is strictly for the serious seeker of wisdom, full of disturbing yet profound words and mind images. Written through the dark hem of the goddess, it stirs the soul and makes it awaken. The work is a bit like contemplating Edvard Munch's painting, "The Scream" (1893), which haunts with the collective muteness and inner longing reflected in viewing it, for the sacred in all the profanity. It is a brave Jungian-style exploration of the soul, and resounds with the wisdom of Marion Woodman's writings on the transformation of the soul. This is a work of catharsis, piece after powerful piece, full of chaos and silent screams. Yet it closes with an affirmation and comes back out into the light of day. Pomegranates may have dark seeds, but they are red, full of passion. Zayra's passion urges the work on, and passion must be the driver through this kind of difficult work. What we know is that the world can't sit on Pandora's Box forever, because it will have its say, but we can choose to bring order to chaos in our own personal transformations, which is what this work does."

- Moni Roleff (author, holistic teacher and healer)