NOV

2012
SIPES SOUL OF LIGHT
Art, Books, Reviews | 2 Comments I got an interesting offer from Quest Books. Would I like to review Soul of Light: Works of Illumination by Joma Sipe. What makes this interesting is that essentially this is an art book. I like art, of course, but I couldnt help but wonder, why on earth would Quest books think that The Magical Buffet or its readers would care about this particular art book? I shouldnt have doubted them. The works of Joma Sipe are inspired from a spiritual background that rivals some published authors. At fifteen he began studying Theosophy and the works of H.P. Blavatsky and Annie Besant, and from there Rudolf Steiner, P.D. Ouspensky and more. At seventeen Sipe got involved with a school called The Gnostic Movement. In his late twenties he practiced ritual and practical magic with another mystical school. Inspired by Autobiography of a Yogi Sipe traveled India learning about Hindu religion. At the same time he was reading Eckhart Tolles The Power of Now, which then led him to study A Course in Miracles. Indeed Joma Sipe is well versed on many matters of the occult and spirit.

Since he opted not to become an author, what does he do? Create art. Sipe says, The intricate and elaborate process of creating each work includes the purpose of transmitting a message, although sometimes that message cannot be understood immediately. Each work disperses and concentrates the light that emanates from each line in the painting. This light represents Being and our deeper Essence, the deep heart of the energy from life that inhabits everything that exists. This energy seeks to break the barrier of the physical dimension to meld with the universal Energy that condenses, materializes, and takes form in each canvas. To create his pieces Sipe waits for inspiration, and then on canvas or black paper using gold or silver ink to draw out his designs. Once drawn he uses intuition, inner vision, and sensibility to decide what points on his painting he wishes to place crystals. Sipe uses both simple crystals that only reflect a white light and aurora boreal crystals that reflect in a rainbow of colors. Sometimes hes inspired to use both gold and silver and/or both types of crystals. Lastly Sipe does what he calls the illuminated work. This is where he adds light and softcolor computer effects. Thats what makes his works have that otherworldly glow about them. The book Soul of Light is simply beautiful. Many of the works are accompanied by poetry from the artist to provide a glimpse into his mind about the piece. The pages are entirely black which helps highlight the artwork. I dont want to tell you what to do, but the holiday gift giving season is coming up and Soul of Light is a pretty awesome gift. Its not the perfect gift for everyone on your list, but right now your looking at the

sample art here (which our resized scans dont do justice) and you already know someone who would like this. You know it, I know it, and the Amazon widget to the right knows it.

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