Heart and Snakes
Welcome to the story of "HEARTS AND SNAKES," an artistic collaboration between mother and son who has the healing medicine of the Divine Mother.
This series is a three-piece legacy collection that weaves a story through the years.
“I embrace miracles and hold a steadfast belief in the potency of love, an unwavering commitment to our truth, and the prophetic messages whispered by a magical child's heart.”
A collaboration between mother and son. LADY is one of three of a collection named "Hearts and Snakes," which originated from pink highlighter doodles RaYa created at two in 2015. Later, the drawings evolved into visionary concepts I painted over, keeping their original shape. I completed the three pieces in 2016-2023. The result is vibrant legacy pieces that will live on forever with potent medicine given to whoever they attract.
“LADY” was taken from my son RaYa Hart’s doodles that I later projected larger on a 20X24 piece of wood, and colored in with acrylics.
RaYa Hart and Yve Hart completed 2016
It started from a mere pink highlighter squiggle on my work invoice paper and has evolved into a healing initiation.
Earlier this year (2023), facing the prospect of my own mortality as death visited me several times through an aggressive cancer diagnosis, calling me back home, I found myself contemplating the legacy I would leave for my son RaYa. My son is now eleven and has witnessed my journey through all the rites of passage through stage four cancer, a frontline witness to my personal death-rebirth processes. I depleted all savings accounts and life insurance policies to cover holistic and medical costs. No material possession I could leave him would have an impact like the magic of the art we co-created.
Art is a journey of how it speaks to the heart, revealing hidden messages that resonate as our consciousness becomes ready to receive them.
Photos above show the steps of taking the pink doodles projecting them on wood canvas and the “Lady” coming alive.
My last wishes
My last wishes were for our collective creations to emerge and endure within our hearts and those of others. Perhaps, through this exhibition, RaYA may embrace art to express himself further. In my heart of hearts, I trust that tuning into my own inner child's wishes to create art will be the key to my further expansion, healing, and becoming. May he remember how potent art can be as a remedial instrument.
Now, with a miraculous turn in my health toward recovery, love has paved the way for the unveiling of our long-awaited curation! I hope to continue creating art for years, reminding myself to let go of perfection. The heart will share what it needs, and art will unveil the messages as I am ready to receive them!
Listen to your children and the heart of your inner child, as they harness magic and wonder and messages that will open your heart and heal you.
May you find inspiration in our art shared from our hearts. Yve and RaYa Hart
“LADY”
Piece #1 of the HEARTS AND SNAKES collection
Pink Highlighter drawing on scrap paper; by RaYa Hart (2015)
Acrylic on 20x24 wood by; Yve Hart (2016)
Though initially a toddler's doodle portraying hearts and snakes, the image, as perceived through my eyes, unfolds into a side profile of a lady, her son's profile to the top left, and a dog to the right. In my interpretation, it encapsulates me, my son RaYa, and the precise profile of our dog Luna two years before her birth!!
These two beings have served as guiding lights, little angels, accompanying me through the transformative journey of facing the darkest of emotions and purifying light through a cancer diagnosis in 2017, which later evolved into stage four cancer and now into a miraculous recovery in the process. However, cancer remains a teacher, keeping me walking my path with much more gratitude for life and the ones I love.
My son, RaYa’s spirit, has always had mysterious ways of sending me messages; this piece, Lady, has been one of them; she has been a symbol of grace through challenging times, supported by love. He wanted me to know he would always be with me through the beautiful orchestration of transformation called evolution.
I infused vibrant colors into this image as she kept me focused inward. The story of “Lady” whispered her meanings as she persisted in unfolding a heart-led journey, transforming inner chaos into creativity.
Lady is expressed in ways only the wisdom of the pure heart of a child and divine feminine can articulate.
“EMERGENCE”
The second piece of the collection
Doodle of hearts and snakes drawn with marker on scrap paper; RaYa Hart, age two in 2015
It was projected on a wood canvas in 2016 and finished with acrylic paint and wood burning in 2021; Yve Hart.
"Emergence" refers to the story of the fullness of life itself, an every unfolding rose that the Divine Mother has been giving me transmissions of unconditional love through this piece. Mother Mary’s transmission can be likened to a labyrinth that speaks to me, with the journey leading to the center, the heart of the most complete and beautiful experience.
All aspects of life's journey should bring joy and pleasure to our innermost being, radiating love frequencies and a fragrant scent and vibration of roses. The rose symbolizes divine femininity and unconditional love given to me on my path of the ever-unfolding heart through pain and joy and darkness and light. She is an ever-unfolding symbol of the rose and the Divine Mother archetype inside everyone.
Sitting in front of Emergence has given me the grace I need to continue the road deeper within the heart.
“BLANCA ROSA”
Is the final piece of the three
Doodle on scrap paper, RaYa Hart 2015
Projected on round wood canvas with acrylic paint and wood burning accents; Yve Hart 2016-2023
"Blanca Rosa" is the final piece of the "HEARTS AND SNAKES" collection. It took considerable time to complete as I faced several healing opportunities while finishing it. However, I returned to finish the piece a year later.
During my healing, I had to face the loss of my uterus and ovaries, which in turn meant I could not have any more children. This reality shook my entire life. However, the loss led to a stronger connection with the child's spirit on the other side. Both my son RaYa and I had close and magical encounters with her.
My dearest Amorea, you are forever in our hearts. This one is for you, a bud that never quite took full bloom on the earth but lives in our hearts forevermore. And to my Grandmother, Blanca Rosa, my Shamanic Grandmother who was born in Cuba and is so dear to my heart, this one is named after you. The presence of the Divine Mother, Mother Mary, was carried forth through her healing and passed on to me.
Proceeds from these prints will go toward mother-and-son art endeavors and adventure field trips!
