As a visitor at the art festival, I was standing there among dozens of people, glancing with wonder at their responses to the exhibit: Their integration with the paintings was almost instant – Something positive had flown from the artwork and improved their feelings. An atmosphere of joy, revival and uplift was clearly sizeable in the audience which has already absorbed a lot at that evening. It was obvious that these paintings of Orna Ben-Shoshan could not be ignored, and their impact on the viewers is powerful, even magical.

Can artwork sway so powerfully over its viewers?

Can it have invigorating or weakening attributes?

And how can the act of viewing certain images launch a healing process?

The Wings of Imagination:

In order to create, the artist uses his/her imagination to capture ideas. Most creative artists refer to the term “inspiration” to describe the way their imagination is activated.  In fact – most artists receive the contents of their artwork through channeling, and imagination is the medium that connects between their consciousness and the information it conceives. The technical mastery serves the artist’s process: the more he/she masters their style, the better is their ability to convey visual messages.

Absorption of Messages:

Let’s compare the creative artist’s mind to a radio or TV receptor, which is able to absorb different channels. Many frequencies are transmitted through air at all times, between powerful transmitters and receptors, some of them are located in outer space (satellites). When tuning into a certain channel, it is possible to absorb the broadcast from that station. As long as your receptor is tuned into channel 1, you will not be able to see what’s on channel 2. Does that mean that broadcasts from channel 2 do not exist at the very same time? No matter what channel we are tuned to at a given moment, there is much more going on around us at the same time – immense information is sizzling constantly everywhere.

The Great Wisdom:

Some information can be absorbed by us consciously, through our five senses. However, the majority of it flows in different channels, which are not accessible by most people, and can not be experienced outright.  Certain people, including channelers, are able to absorb messages which are latent to most of us, and translate them to image, sound, movement or words.

All this “Great Wisdom” is enclosed in the large pool of immeasurable collective wisdom, which includes all,  which have always existed and will always be in the universe around us. This immense knowledge exists in different dimensions, where life takes place in endledd energetic levels and frequencies. We can demonstrate some of these frequencies same way that we describe different attributes: creativity, construction, destruction, activity, passivity, militancy, caos, order or healing.  Other high frequencies are beyond our conception as humans, and we can not identify them under the limitations of our consciousness.

The Energetic Essence of a Message:

When an artist expresses visual information which is originated in a certain dimension, whatever passes through to the viewer is not only a picture, but its energetic essence – energetic frequency as well.

We can compare the process to the mind-work of a person who practices visualization for the purpose of curing disease: Thoughts are energy frequencies in different wave lengths. A person focuses his thoughts and creates images in his mind to help him recover. It does not matter at all if the picture he draws in his mind is real or imaginative – the fact of “seeing” the malignant tumor shrink and disappear, or pain vanishing, is assimilated in that person’s individual experience – at first as a vivid vision, and last – as a crystallization of thought into matter, from its spiritual frequency to physical frequency, which causes the healing process.

Same way, the energetic essence of a visual message in a painting assimilates in the viewer’s mind. From the phase of absorption in the mind, all the way to the assimilation in his personal experience. The essence of the artwork crystallizes down into a slower condensed form that influences the material level. (All that is true if the viewer does not resist the information that flows toward him).

Dream or Hallucination?

Artist Orna B. absorbs the images she paints through channeling.  Her paintings reflect optimism, joy, humor, and occurrences unfamiliar to us in our mundane world. Many people guess that the origin to these images comes from her dreams – but this is far from truth. Her dreams are like anybody else’s dreams, sometimes interesting, in most times just boring, and their majority she does not remember at all. The fantastic images she sees, are named by her typical humor “hallucinations”. As Orna states, these images appear to her from an alternate reality, where utopic – (ideal) life form exists: The figures that play different roles in her documented scenes symbolize mysterious entities which are forever occupied with healing rituals, purification, rejuvenation and transformation. Even though she does not always understand the contents of the messages, Orna can feel the positive energies going through her in the process of painting. She sees herself as an open channel that absorbs information. Her mastered technical proficiency is the medium that enables her to translate it to shapes and forms familiar to the people in our physical realm.

The Dimension of Healing and Rejuvenation:

Orna B. has ingulfed many years of work with the surreal colorful and detailed style which she has taught herself,  and the unique contents she chooses to convey.  After some odd phenomena which occurred to viewers in her exhibitions, my definite conclusion is, that the source of her images is in a realm of healing and rejuvenation.

One weekend, I took my friend to a visit at Orna’s studio. At that time, my friend had suffered severe migranes which attacked her once a week and lasted several days each time. When we arrived at the studio, she still felt some residual pain, and was quite exhausted. When leaving the studio and strolling toward the car, as she held two new prints which she just bought, she suddenly stopped, turned to me with astonishment and said: “You won’t believe it, Miriam, but the migrane had completely disappeared and I feel tons of energy!” I knew that being around Orna’s artwork was the cause for her betterment. A month later, my friend reported that she does not understand how it happened, but her migrane attacks are weakening and do not paralyze her any more. Orna’s new paintings are still hanging in her living room and bedroom.

When I peeked into the guestbook in one of Orna’s exhibitions, I was amazed to read the visitors’ comments: People expressed their deep gratitude for the wonderful feelings the experienced when viewing the exhibition, and even hours later. People who have Orna’s artwork in their homes depose that since they have brought the paintings home, the whole atmosphere had changed and became more harmonious and peaceful. One man wrote that when suffering severe back pains, he laid down to rest on the sofa, above which a painting of Orna was hung. After lying down and gazing at the painting for about twenty minutes, he got up, and his back pain had disappeared as if it never happened.

Stories like this can also be heard from visitors who spend time in Orna’s website: The viewers connect to the images through their sub-conscience minds. In many cases they do not exactly understand the contents, but it’s simple for them to describe how they feel.

Visionary Art

The painting genre known as “Visionary Art” is familiar in the visual art circles. This genre is a sub-category of the surrealistic style. Most artists who create visionary art are auto-deduct, and developed their unique style through practice and experimentation. Most visionary artists are not influenced by conventional art schools and genres, since they have never acquired any formal art education.

Visionary art has several interesting attributes due to its intuitiveness and its ability to create mental or physical shifts in the viewer (Starting from stress reduction and ending with elevating energy levels). Orna Ben-Shoshan  belongs to this special artists group. It makes no difference whether her art is created as oil on canvas, or as computer generated digital images – their energetic essence is always reflected onto the viewer.  The paintings are radiant with harmony, energetic purification and rejuvenation, and induce a peaceful atmosphere in the area they are displayed.

Remember that the unique frequency conveyed through each creation of art is its true inner essence. The essence of Orna B.’s artwork is in the manifestation of messages from alternate dimensions that pass through her in order to spread love and healing.

Orna Ben-Shoshan has been an auto deduct artist for the past 30 years. Her artwork was exhibited in numerous locations in the USA, Europe and Israel. Her Major motivation as a visual artist is to share her visions with others to expand their consciousness and inspire new ways of thinking.

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