MaEarth

Transitioning from a Corporate Executive to an Artist meant creating a new life and embracing it wholeheartedly. In December 2016, I felt like I was reborn after collapsing and destroying all my beliefs about life, love, strength, money and everything else I knew. Every part of me was created anew and I had to reinvent and I rebuilt myself. And in the process, I wanted to create a unique identity for my own self. I wanted to name this identity as a parent would name his/her child – only, I wasn’t the parent. I WAS the child. This identity was my mother who walked me thru the difficult transformation and hand-held me giving all the courage and motivation I needed. And thus, ‘’MaEarth’’ was born.

Many ask me why I had chosen the name. From my days as a child, I loved playing in the mud, clay, sand and enjoyed the hues of all earthy colours and shades. I loved the rustic feel or wood grains, leaves, tea bark, stones, pebbles, seashells and eggshells. I immensely enjoyed pottery and gardening as they involved working with the soil. It took me a while to realize that I feel grounded to Mother Earth whenever I am working with soil and handling all the earthy matter improved my inner-connectedness. She had the remarkable power to calm, soothe and relax me and I felt peaceful, blissful and beautiful.

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As I looked around, I saw how much mother earth has provided for all the beings that reside on the planet, how we are ecologically connected and how we are a self-sustained system co-existing in a complex web of consciousness and physical existence. And yet, she is always there for us, grounding us and responding to our prayers. We are all born from her and will ultimately return into her womb. It just makes me sad, when I see how we are destroying our environment and ecology and taking Mother Earth for granted. Hence, I wanted to remind everyone to celebrate this holy mother of all, by naming my studio and my new identity as ‘’MaEarth’’.