Michelle Doll "As Above, So Below"

Michelle Doll’s meticulous and lovingly rendered figures represent the familiar touch between a couple, the closeness between a mother and child and intimate moments of ecstatic love. Beneath the surface lies a deeper esoteric purpose hidden in the wrinkles of vibrating flesh and the weight of the interwoven forms. Although the subjects are literally represented below as observed from above, her paintings are ultimately meditations on spiritual alchemy – an attempt to engage in the illumination of consciousness through the reconciliation of opposing spiritual and terrestrial energies.