These works explore some of the deep, recurring themes in art and spirituality, of how we experience the mystery of nature and find our place in the world.
Tengri, an ancient, silent religion in which you relate the self to nature and understand you are a part of it.
“Tengri see colours as symbolic of the natural order of things. Көк, which describes all the blues and greens means ‘god given’. Tengri itself is ‘a great-blue sky'. Sary describes all that is made of earth and all the earthly colours from yellow through red and brown. Umay is the female manifestation of Tengri, coming from earth which is Sary (yellow). So, when we are alive our body is from the earth and our soul from the sky and when we die, each returns to its place, and the circle is complete. We are this circle.”
Aigana Gali
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These series are an evolution from the abstract colour fields in Steppe - nothingness - through to the geometric forms of Tengri - being. By incorporating biomorphic and geometric shapes into the arenas that were manifest in Steppe, Aigana is mirroring her own conscious evolution; coming into an awareness of self while retaining a sense of our place – and the space we create – under this ‘grey blue sky’.
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