Aigana Gali British, b. 1980
ORNEK II, 2023
acrylic and oil on canvas
106 x 82 cm
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Tengri, Light Works Series These works explore some of the deep, recurring themes in art and spirituality, of how we experience the mystery of nature and find our place in...
Tengri, Light Works Series
These works explore some of the deep, recurring themes in art and spirituality, of how we experience the mystery of nature and find our place in the world. Tengri, an ancient, silent religion in which you relate the self to nature and understand you are a part of it.
“Tengri see colours as symbolic of the natural order of things. Көк, which describes all the blues and greens means ‘god given’. Tengri itself is ‘a great-blue sky'. Sary describes all that is made of earth and all the earthly colours from yellow through red and brown. Umay is the female manifestation of Tengri, coming from earth which is Sary (yellow). So, when we are alive our body is from the earth and our soul from the sky and when we die, each returns to its place, and the circle is complete. We are this circle.”
-Aigana Gali
These works explore some of the deep, recurring themes in art and spirituality, of how we experience the mystery of nature and find our place in the world. Tengri, an ancient, silent religion in which you relate the self to nature and understand you are a part of it.
“Tengri see colours as symbolic of the natural order of things. Көк, which describes all the blues and greens means ‘god given’. Tengri itself is ‘a great-blue sky'. Sary describes all that is made of earth and all the earthly colours from yellow through red and brown. Umay is the female manifestation of Tengri, coming from earth which is Sary (yellow). So, when we are alive our body is from the earth and our soul from the sky and when we die, each returns to its place, and the circle is complete. We are this circle.”
-Aigana Gali