The Blue Star Gazette

Creating Peace through Art
Artist Corinna Zubin Lyon

Corinna’s mandalas are an expression of Divine source flowing through her into a beauty that breathes peace, but to simplify -let’s call it Art. Corinna Zubin Lyon’s inspiration is Samuel Lewis who created the Dances of Universal Peace as a way of creating peace through art. He is the inspiration for using the sacred phrases in her mandalas. Says Corinna, “I have been involved with the dances since 1980, and am just devoted to peace and beauty and integrating it throughout my life. My way of making my life purposeful is creating peace through art.”
She continues, “By uniting Hebrew and Aramaic languages together into one piece of art, I feel like I am creating peace.” For example, in her cover piece “Middle Eastern Peace Gate” shown to the right, at the center, we find the Arabic word for Peace, Salaam; next in the center, we find the Hebrew word for peace Shalom, and on the outer ring the Aramaic word for peace Shlama. “See how they all come from the same word root? They have all that commonality! So they’ll figure it out, they got to…” she explains.

Corinna received these mandalas during an infusion of divine inspiration. “There was a time when they just all came through!” She works with cold-water dyes on watercolor paper, using gold embossing as a resist, original stamps from her language research which she is proud of “I have made stamps for ‘peace’ in Chinese, Urdu, Korean, Tibetan, Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, Hindi, and Russian.”

Although her mideastern mandala is most potent for us at this time, on the back cover, you will find “Lotus - Heaven and Earth”, a Chinese and Tibetan peace mandala as well as the “Flower of Life” Egyptian mandala containing the ancient Egyptian symbol for the interconnectedness of All.

Corinna has lived in Bangkok and Greece and just recently immigrated to the exotic town of Port Townsend! Welcome Home dear one! You can find her work at Heavenly Choices in Poulsbo, learn about her bumper sticker projects and more about her art at www.asounddesign.com. If you are interested in her prints and cards, you can contact her personally at 379-0118.

Corinna’s message is “Peace is Power, Brothers and Sisters!”

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