Blue, The Sound Medicine

This show will be exploring the usage of color blue through centuries and how different religions have used it to represent the heavens. In mysticism heavens or sky represents ascension to higher realms. Therefore, blue is a reminder of the Soul’s journey back home, to return where it came from, the journey to unite again with the most High, Divine. This is the key intention or purpose of this life for most, if not all mystics. The way to ascend spiritually is mostly attributed to chanting a verse or name again and again which helps to incorporate noble characteristics into one’s personality. This is called remembrance, or Dhikr in Islam, chanting mantra in Hinduism while we call them affirmations in modern spirituality. Christianity uses the rosary while the jews wear the tallit with its blue lines to Remember the Divine. Hence color blue is the sound that heals the soul towards its perfection, unity and peace. The color blue then becomes a thread running through most religions and ultimately uniting us through what we can agree upon together. The idea is to focus on our similarities instead of our differences through our combined culture and belief, to find ways to unite through religion because it is this very religion that has managed to divide most of us. From the blue and golden stripes of the pharaohs to the blue and golden stripes of the Talit in Jewish tradition, the blue color associated with the throat chakra where we chant mantras from, and from the use of Lapis Lazuli in Babylon to its use in the Holy Quran, this artshow is an effort to highlight what is beautiful beyond space and time.