About Athena
Athena Sophia Art Biography
Athena Sophia (Bonnie J. Warren & Carrie S. Reinking ) 2016 project, “I Am Water” was born when the artists began studying the physical motions of Wing Chun, Kung Fu, Artists and Bruce Lee’s desire to move more like water. They decided to explore his idea in painting while expanding the idea further from being more like water, to actually being the water, “I am water”.
What does it mean to be water? Water… more
Sophia's Blue Fairy Tree of Life
Athena's Blue Fairy Sacred Tree of Life
Athena Sophia Chakra Meditation
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Sophia Chakra MeditationChakra Meditation-In this painting, chakra images were chosen to represent the persona of Sophia along with images of other worlds and star systems spilling out of her head and hanging in her dreadlocks. Acrylic/Canvas
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Athena Chakra Sutra MeditationChakra Meditation-In this painting, chakra images were chosen to represent the persona of Athena along with the Sutras of Pantajali and lavender streaming through and out her head, becoming her dreadlocks. Acrylic/Paper/Canvas
Exploring the World of Fairies
The more focused they became on the garden, the more in tune they became with the dance of fairies. Athena's and Sophia's paint brushes danced on canvases as Sophia explored the idea that the garden was filled with blue fairies. Athena's brush began to tell the story that these fairies were always there, hiding among the flowers, coming out to dance and celebrate life when no one was looking or listening.
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Iris Faries UnfoldingAcrylic on Canvas
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Lavender A bun danceAcrylic/paper/cloth on canvas - 2 panels
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Lavender A bun dance
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Water Lily DanceAcrylic/paper/cloth on canvas
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Sunset Cone Flower Abundance
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Sunset Cone Flower A bun danceAcrylic/paper/cloth on canvas
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Grove of the FayAcrylic on Canvas
I Am Water
Athena Sophia (Bonnie J. Warren & Carrie S. Reinking ) 2016 project, “I Am Water” was born when the artists began studying the physical motions of Wing Chung, Kung Fu, Artists and Bruce Lee’s desire to move more like water. They decided to explore his idea in painting while expanding the idea further from being more like water, to actually being the water, “I am water”.
What does it mean to be water? Water can be soft or hard, calm or violent, it nourishes life and destroys life, changing into many forms, solid, gas and liquid. It is everything and nothing. Danielle Egnew writes about water and weaves it into a 2017 challenge for our USA. She says we can choose to be a stone or water. Those that choose to be more like water “are a river of the collective language of love, the most effective language of all human design. A river flows around obstacles, and keeps flowing. It doesn’t stop and argue with every stone, paranoid that its own rocky bed is intentionally attempting to change its direction....the water views the stones as part of the flow. The stones view the water as that which shapes them”.
The Blue People in the “I am water” series and other works of Athena Sophia, not only represent the transformation of the physical body and mind to water, but allows all Earthlings to relate to the subjects and hopefully be inspired themselves to explore and contemplate the meaning that we are all water. Water, the Universal Solvent.