Copper Headpiece 2022-47
A short artist’s note on a handcrafted copper crown made for the author’s birthday, and the new tradition of crafting a unique tiara each year to build a growing personal collection.
Dragonfly
A brief artist’s note describing a channeled artwork, a dragonfly created in a trance-like state the artist cannot consciously recall or reproduce, embraced as a one-of-a-kind piece.
Lotus Vortex
A 2022 oil-on-canvas painting (24 x 48 in) created for a lotus-themed guest cottage, presenting the lotus through three perspectives — a traditional side view, a top-down view, and an energetic view — as a symbol of the awakening higher self.
The Bay Vision
An artist’s statement for The Bay Vision, a twelve-by-twenty-four-inch oil-on-canvas painting from 2022 depicting a recurring lifelong inner vision of a protected bay, a small boat, and calm, contemplative exploration.
Sacred Copper Tree
An artist’s statement for Sacred Copper Tree, a commissioned copper-wire sculpture roughly fourteen inches tall with 108 strands twisting into leaf-tipped branches, designed with awareness and twisted into life in flow state.
NFT Idea Collection #1
A short artist statement introducing Dr. Kathryn Colleen’s first NFT collection, which tests the idea of selling ideas as NFTs — six separate concepts intended to democratize innovation and establish ‘ideas’ as a new NFT category.
Disillusionment
An artist’s statement for an abstract piece created during pandemic lockdowns, attempting to capture the felt sense of disillusionment: churning discomfort and fear in the body alongside an openness and sense of new possibility.
Divine Feminine
An artist’s statement for a mandala-based visual piece offered as a contemplation on the divine feminine, left open for the viewer’s own interpretation.
Loudoun Late Night
An artist’s statement for a visual piece inspired by the late-night sky over rural Loudoun County, Virginia, playing with darkness, stars, the moon and the Blue Ridge to evoke a calming effect.
Alt Stage Six
An early concept artwork created for Stage Six of the personal-development model, later set aside as the official piece — illustrating how compartmentalized that stage is while still holding many interconnections.
Orchid Vision
An artwork depicting a vision seen during the artist’s Reiki Master attunement — three white orchids opening against purple mist — which proved prophetic when the orchids in her kitchen window bloomed two weeks later.
Black Hole And Universal Eye
An artwork exploring the idea that black holes may be gateways to other universes, drawing a visual parallel between a universe contained within a black hole and the all-seeing eye of a single cosmic consciousness.
Universes Within Universes
An artwork exploring the idea of multiple universes — how one might be hidden inside another or lie unseen close by — and questioning how blind we really are to what exists within and around us.
Venn Consciousness
An artwork depicting the interplay of human consciousness, the subconscious and the divine — shown as overlapping rectangles with the one consciousness radiating out to experience itself within each level.
#10WordStory
A participatory word-art project inviting readers to capture real moments from their lives in stories of exactly ten words, inspired by Hemingway’s famous six-word story, with example entries and simple rules for joining in.
My Life In Color (45)
An artist’s reflective project mapping the phases of her life to representative colors, with a white overlay for self-growth and the emergence of the true self, inviting readers to imagine their own life in color.
The Souls Of Business
A short reflection on business as a human endeavor, observing that companies are filled with unique people at different phases of their journeys, all seeking real connection to themselves and others and purpose in their work.
Extreme Reality – Part Two (#satire)
The satire half of a photography project mocking social media’s obsession with staged, unrealistic self-images — an over-the-top series (ball gown, jewelry, filters) that unexpectedly blurred the line between staged and real as the author actually performed each absurd scene.
Extreme Reality – Part One (The Real Reality)
The documentary half of a photography project — a black-and-white series showing the author’s ordinary day (grocery lists, meditation, playing with her dog) and reflecting on how a freely self-directed life is less normal, and less boring, than it seems.
Purna Asatti: Music For Complete Connection
An overview of Kathryn Colleen’s album Purna Asatti: Music For Complete Connection, describing its Meditation Mix, a Connection Mix journeying through eleven stages, individual stage tracks, an indiscernible Sanskrit chant, and where the record was written and recorded.
Stage Eleven
A description of the Stage Eleven mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, using color symbolism — altered consciousness, intuition, self, energy — to convey the dissolution of separateness into pure creative energy at the journey’s most foundational point.
The Notes Project
A description of The Notes Project, a public art project in which uplifting handwritten question-cards, backed by artwork, are left for strangers to find — intended to spark surprise, joy, and a moment of self-connection in everyday life.
Stage Ten
A description of the Stage Ten mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, where the truth of self recognizes itself as the one consciousness within all things — a profound, near-religious realization still encapsulated within the physical body.
Stage Nine
A description of the Stage Nine mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, where recognizing oneself as a consciousness within the body takes on a divine quality, yielding focused intuition and a felt connection to others as fellow consciousnesses.
Stage Eight
A description of the Stage Eight mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model — the comfort of complete organization, where people, ideologies, experiences, and the true self connect into a coherent whole while remaining at peace with what is still unknown.