Maija Liepins' Starflowers at Sandham, Berkshire

Sandham Memorial Chapel
Burghclere
'Saturated Space', 11-29 March 2020
a CAS group exhibition
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For Maija, granddaughter of Latvian refugees, the starflower is a variation of the latvian Auseklis an eight pointed star. When spiritual meaning of symbolic language is obscured by war-torn passages of time there comes a call to put the pieces back together using air, fire, earth, water.

A stream from my notebook:
“I am a river of life
A liquid courage
Daring to pour myself
Into this life, to see you
Sparking, blooming,
Blazing alight and
Yet so quickly burnt out
So easily exhausted of my vigour
.
I am the limitless stream
Of living breath
Of waking dream
Of creative mattering
Actively becoming in you
.
History’s fields of planted
Ghosts, a testament
To endings
Bookends on a chapter of
Why?
Why rush so valiantly
To crush the flower
?
The sacred found in the every day:
It lives in you
Protect your creations
And honour the flower
Blooming in your soul.