Untitled - Ioana Predescu

(Ovidius University, Fine Arts Faculty. Constanta)

 

It is said that every place has a spirit that guards it and you will feel good in that place if the spirit of the place accepts you. So when you first go to a place, pray to the spirit of the place to accept you! My place is… the sea. I was born in a seaside town and even though at different times in my life I left this place, I always came back as if there was a thread with which my being is connected here and someone is pulling the wire and bring me back. This spirit of the place, the spirit of the sea, I feel that lives me, the sea, me, we are one. The sea discharges my soul, negative emotions, sadness, anger and fills me with energy, craving for life, joy. I physically need my sea as a tree that needs water to grow. In the key moments of my life I found peace and answers here on the seashore. And here I get the inspiration I need so much. The spirit of the place is an aspect of the sacred space and carries it to the supernatural. On the seashore I feel like between the worlds, on one side the material world with tension, negative emotions, anguish and on the other side the release, pure energy, balance, silence, joy…and I am on the seashore, I run, I walk, I meditate, and always come back here, in my place of power. I am convinced that a place physically puts its mark on those who pass there and at the same time the energy of the place is full of the ghosts of the past, of the energy of the people and of the facts that once happened…