You are all You need to Be

You are all You need to Be

Go inside yourself and see You are all you need to be.Trying to be like them is vain. To lose yourself is to go insane. Be gentle in there. Handle your heart with care. Make your inner speak a song, Especially if you feel wrong. Because those around you will end up...
The Skeleton Tree

The Skeleton Tree

She and the Skeleton Tree I love this tree Across the road from me stood tall and stark smooth white bark dotted with pits full of acorn bits some of which would sprout life bursting out of death and decay This is always the way Last fall it fell It was loud, I could...
Eternal Encore- a tribute to Michael Jackson

Eternal Encore- a tribute to Michael Jackson

After over four years of working on this painting, it is finally complete! Unknowingly, I finished it during the fifth anniversary of Michael Jackson’s passing. This is the story of the painting, “It’s All About the L.O.V.E.” I never knew much...
Liberation Movement

Liberation Movement

I have been honored to dance with Liberation Movement in multiple performances now, and I must say, it is an incredible, ceremonial journey each time.  Grant Chambers and Sasha Rose collaborate with Amazonian shamans to bring forth the medicine of the rainforest...
Learned Something New

Learned Something New

I recently completed a weekly still life painting course at Sadie Valerie Atelier in San Francisco.  Sadie is a masterful classical artist,  teaching indirect oil painting and still life.  This was a fun and challenging experience.  I’m so...

Interview with Marya Stark

I recently had the honor of being interviewed by the beautiful and talented musical muse, Marya Stark.  To get a deeper look into how I grew into my creative unfurling, read the interview here: Interview of Ka Amorastreya by Marya Stark If you like the article, make...

Unicorn

  Unicorn, oil on canvas panel, 8″x10″, 2013 – Private collection   I believe in unicorns.  

Guardian of Aurora

Guardian of Aurora, oil on panel, 9″ x 12″, 2013 Original available for sale: Contact artist for information.  

Serpentfeathers Etsy Shop

Finally, I have opened my Etsy store!  For the first time, some of my headdresses and hair pieces are available for sale to the public.  In the past I have mostly worked on private commissions, which I still love to do, but this time I decided to bust out a few pieces...
Sol Purpose Interview

Sol Purpose Interview

I was recently blessed and challenged to answer some beautifully potent questions for an interview. This is the first time I have ever taken the time to pour my heart out about my art, my dance, my life and how I walk in the world. Thank you Aluna and Ehren for giving...

A blessed soul

A blessed soul knows peace. A cursed soul knows suffering. Let us lift the curses we have placed on one another and ourselves, bless each other and ourselves, so that we all may know peace and move on from our suffering.  

Beauty’s Witness

Does the elusive flower decide to not bloom because there is no one there to tell her how beautiful she is?  Does she forget to unleash her fragrance because no one will ever venture far enough to smell her essence?   Beauty needs no external witness or validation to...
Communion

Communion

This new painting, Communion was completed as we wrapped up the year 2011.  This piece began years ago, at a festival with Even Oldridge of Divine Reflections.  He offered to collaborate, and I gladly accepted.  He photographed me embodied, then with...
The Mirror

The Mirror

The Mirror, oil on bristol, 11″ x 14″, 2010 The Mirror was about a four year process with long periods of dormant time between painting sessions.  The two nagas, or snake women mirror each other, though they are the same being.  Uadjet, the...

The best Chocolate Truffles in the World

As promised, here is a shout out to the ever lovely, magical alchemista, Caitlin Naramore.  Her exquisite, complex, and utterly delicious chocolate truffles are…. well.. they are so good, that upon having one melt across your tongue, you will find your eyes are...
Eye Wish

Eye Wish

Eye Wish, oil on canvas, 36″ x 48″, 2008 Eye Wish is my first journey with sacred geometry.  The 36″x48″ canvas was divided down the center with a line, which was then divided at the golden mean, or pi ratio.  A circle was drawn...
I Dreamt I Was Made of Nectar

I Dreamt I Was Made of Nectar

I Dreamt I Was Made of Nectar, oil on canvas, 14″ x 18″, 2010 I dreamt I was made of nectar was originally intended to be a loose self portrait, quick and expressive.  However, I found myself delving into infinite realms of potential juicy detail,...
Golden Purifier

Golden Purifier

Golden Purifier, oil on panel, 7″ x 9″, 2010 Original Sold. Cathartes Aura, or golden purifier is the Latin name for the turkey vulture.  This totem is a very powerful one for me.  They are a living embodiment of the Phoenix, as I see it, as...
Aswan

Aswan

Aswan, oil on canvas, 12″x 16″, 2010 Original available for sale: Contact artist for information. I began Aswan years ago while living in Texas.  Still in its impressionistic conceptual phase, It spent some years untouched before being revisited....
One Heart’s Journey

One Heart’s Journey

One Heart’s Journey, oil on canvas, 18″ x 24″, 2009 – private collection … One Heart’s Journey is a depiction of the transformational journey through destruction into healing and unification.  The bones in the fire are the...
Milk and Honey

Milk and Honey

Milk and Honey, oil on canvas, 16″ x 20″, 2003 – private collection … Milk and Honey was the first painting I completed.  I finished it in 2003.  Eight months of full time labor on this piece, working on the floor of my bedroom in...
Satellite Baby

Satellite Baby

Satellite Baby, oil on canvas, 11″x14″, 2004 STOLEN.  If you have any information on the whereabouts of this missing painting, please contact Ka.  Last seen in Austin, TX.
Saturn Return

Saturn Return

Saturn Return, oil on canvas, 2004 STOLEN! If you have any information on the whereabouts of this missing painting, please contact Ka.  Last seen in  Austin, TX

Sandbox

Sandbox, oil on canvas, 12″x16″, 2004 Original available for sale: Contact artist for information.
Camelglow

Camelglow

Camelglow, oil on canvas, 2oo4 STOLEN! If you have any information on the whereabouts of this missing painting, please contact Ka.  Last seen in  Austin, TX

Nectar Seeker

Nectar Seeker, oil on canvas, 12″x12″, 2004 Original available for sale: Contact artist for information.

Silence of the Songbird

Silence of the Songbird, oil on canvas, 30″x40″, 2004 Original available for sale: Contact artist for information.
Serpentfeathers En Vogue

Serpentfeathers En Vogue

Burning Man 2010 was ultimately my best burn ever.  Just having returned from Boom Festival in Portugal, and after 2009’s burn leaving me feeling bruised, jaded and .. well, burned, I had already made up my mind to not go.  Last minute, talked into it...