ENTER THE WORLD OF INDIA O'HARA

MY PATH          MY SOUL

 I have been studying peoples, ethnic groups, extinct traditions and great ancient empires for a long time. Researching their culture, art and spirituality and showing it in shapes and colors on canvas.

 Firstly, in addition to studies on pre-Columbian civilizations in South and Central America, more specifically the Inca, Maya, Aztec, Toltec Empires, among others, I made trips to Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, for observation "in loco" of these cultures in archaeological sites, among them are: Oyantaytambo, Tyuanaco, Cusco, Machupichu, etc. Which resulted in a series of works exhibited in Cultural spaces in the State of Paraná.

 Following the research of Ancient Traditions, I returned my studies to Celtic Culture and Shamanism, through these studies added to meditations and mental visualizations, I took the result to the physical plane that was the series `Between Rites and Mystical Myths`.

 In the year 2000, deepening my research on Shamanism and Pajelanca, I traveled to the INSIDE of Amazonia, to the INSIDE of indigenous villages and ended up revealing things from my INNER artistic, spiritual and cultural path. In the villages of the Karajas - Ilha do Bananal, the Xavantes - Mato Grosso, the Asurinis – Para and the Gavioes Parketeje - Reserva Mae Maria - Para, I learned not only the decorative art, but also the ritualistic art of the shamans and warriors, I also learned other pigments like annatto and genipapo, I got to know indigenous graphics, I learned healing herbs and the paje's communication with disembodied entities and their sacred rituals, I learned their relationship with the divine and with mother earth. This resulted in the exhibition INTERIORES, which was presented in several cities in Paraná.

 Later, deepening my research on the mysteries of the lines of the Nazca Desert, of the ancient Nazca Empire in Peru, and knowing its pyramidal architecture, its sculptural and pictorial forms, its culture and spirituality, I was sent to compile the entire pictography , the art, the culture of all the peoples previously studied, remembering all the artistic, cultural and spiritual similarity that all these peoples have in common.

 Intriguing, that remote tribes, which had no physical intercommunication among themselves, nor access to means of transport, of the most primitive that it was, could erect pyramids in Mexico, similar to those of Egypt, sculptures of Chinese lions almost identical to the Incans, sculptures of gigantic stones like Stonehenge or Ilha da Pasco, ancestral Australian aboriginal crafts that can be confused with Brazilian Marajoara ceramics, and more, similar cosmic and religious rituals in the four corners of the world.

 The scope of my art is to show that everything is interconnected, we are all connected by a great invisible Universal network and we communicate with each other (incarnated or not), with nature, with animals and with the UNIVERSE ITSELF through that invisible network An extrasensory communication, immensely stronger, effective and beyond words.

                                                                                                                                                         India Andreoli