Join Dr. Jo Bowers as they explore the profound connection between art, incarnation, and embodiment during the holiday season. This episode of The Artist’s Journey delves into how art serves as a manifestation of divine energy, personal growth, and community. Discover the power of creativity, the symbolism of the brushstroke, and the role of art in nurturing relationships and cultural identity.✨ Presented by Art Wisdom | The Artist’s Journey Show & Podcast🌐 Visit: https://OzFineArt.Au🎨 Subscribe for more inspiring conversations on art, creativity, and the human spirit.Timestamps:00:00 - Introduction: The Holiday Season & Art00:52 - Family, Ancestry, and Manifestation01:51 - About The Artist’s Journey & Oz FineArt03:11 - The Meaning of Incarnation04:25 - Divine Energy and Personal Growth05:59 - The Force Within: Art & DNA07:17 - The Artistic Journey as Metaphor08:40 - Rebirth, Hope, and Renewal10:20 - Life’s Struggles and Artistic Transformation11:24 - Creativity, Vulnerability, and Community12:42 - Altruism and the Way of the Artist13:34 - Sharing Energy Through Art14:59 - Art as Custodianship and Sovereignty16:15 - The Embodiment of Presence in Art17:08 - Incarnational Energy and Creativity18:02 - Flowers as Metaphor for Personhood18:53 - Manifesting Something from Nothing20:00 - Celebrating Identity, Culture, and Relationships21:21 - The Music of Creation and Life’s Symphony22:49 - Growth, Agency, and Vulnerability24:37 - Self-Expression and Artistic Vision25:31 - Sharing Art and Community Engagement27:47 - Podcast Spirit and Audio Quality28:44 - The Embodiment of Art30:29 - Art, AI, and Digital Creativity32:00 - Digital Art as New Expression33:52 - Art as Communication Across Time35:15 - Presence, Energy, and the Divine36:28 - Embracing the Present Moment37:59 - Blessings and Closing Reflections40:52 - Final Thoughts and FarewellKeywords:art, incarnation, embodiment, Christmas, Jo Bowers, Oz FineArt, artist journey, creativity, divine energy, personal growth, community, cultural identity, brushstroke, digital art, AI art, holiday season, inspiration, self-expression, transformation, spirituality, family, ancestry, rebirth, hope, renewal, podcast, fine art, creative processConnect with us:Website: https://OzFineArt.AuSubstack: Art Wisdom | The Artist’s Journey Show & PodcastApple Podcasts: The Artist’s JourneyArt #Christmas #Embodiment #Creativity #Podcast #JoBowers #OzFineArt Transcript [00:00:00] The holiday season is such a time of joy, celebration. It’s also a time of family gathering and of cultural festivities. The holiday season is a time to reflect. It’s often a time of deep personal solitude, and within this spirit of the season, we think about the role that fine art plays in our life. We look to artists for inspiration and we find within their work a deep resonance that gives us this sense of reconnecting with our origins and our origin story with our ancestral [00:00:51] medicine, the power of our family line coming forward into our lives again and giving us [00:01:00] energy to move forward and to manifest what we need in our life and in this time. This is the Artist Journey. I’m your host, Jo Bowers, PhD. Our show appears natively on Oz FineArt YouTube, Oz FineArt Collective on Substack and Apple Podcasts. [00:01:22] Our sponsor is OzFineArt.Au and artist scholar, practitioner inspired project. That combines artfulness transformational agency and the sacred business of nurturing relationships in our interconnected world. Please join our community by visiting our home at OzFineArt.Au. Please consider acquiring one of our beautiful artworks [00:01:51] and do remember to join our community bimonthly periodical. We so look forward to seeing you. [00:02:00] Thank you so much. Many of the stories and the most profound meanings of this time of year relate to the incarnation that is the manifestation of divine energy into the world and this manifestation. It is not an external event that happens to us. [00:02:25] This is a manifestation that moves within us to change us, to help us to grow, to give us new energy and life power and wisdom. This manifestation of the incarnation energy of the divine person, the divine essence, the divine energy is moving throughout creation all the time, all around us in every moment. [00:02:58] Much like the [00:03:00] Star Wars theme, the, the Force that is with us, the Force that is with you. It is a deeply personal and manifest reality. It is the breath that we breathe. It is the very nature of our energy within our DNA that is unfolding over time and giving us new life, and regenerating ourselves and helping our bodies to grow to become more beautiful as we age, as we [00:03:37] grow in personhood as we become the manifest beings that we are meant to be. And this is the artistic journey. This is the journey of the artist as a metaphor for your growth, for your being, for your becoming. These are [00:04:00] powerful stories about your origins. When you reflect on the Christmas story of the incarnation of God into a baby, born in a stable, we’ve got to imagine for a moment that we are there. [00:04:19] We are amongst the people in that place, celebrating the birth of a child. And in that moment come to terms with our own inner rebirthing. Our finding, again, a sense of hope, a sense of renewal, a sense of healing after years of becoming adults and working so hard to fit into the world. And to bring forward our mortgages and our jobs and [00:05:00] our responsibilities and our raising children and our engaging in projects and and programs and so many. [00:05:10] So many things over the years that dominate our energy and pull us into a different head space where we stress and we are filled with anxiety and often levels of depression. In the sense that we come against the struggles of life and we’re not able to respond as much as we would like perhaps, and this incapacity to respond prevents us from. [00:05:43] Manifesting the energy that we know, we sense in our fullness, in our potential, in the spirit of our being. Having a human experience can be a very frustrating moment, [00:06:00] can be a very difficult path, and so within this manifestation story, the artwork of our lives. Is transformed. The artwork of our lives is transformed, and in that [00:06:19] is a creative moment, a powerful moment, a moment of becoming, a moment of sharing who we are and the truth and vulnerability of our core humanity, of our very nature. The center and heart of who we are, sharing that with others through color, texture, and form. Through intimacy, through moments of deep connection, through a sense of community and family, through giving and serving others in a way that [00:07:00] extends ourselves. [00:07:02] That gives us a deeper capacity for altruism that is caring for another person in such a way that we would truly wish them the best, that we would want the best for them, that we would give of ourselves to them freely, not expecting return. And when we are able to engage in this practice, this is the way of the artist. [00:07:34] This is the artist that gives to others through their work, through their imagery, through their color, texture and form, and through the works that they produce. They share the energy of life. The energy of becoming, the energy of being. And this is a powerful story because this is, this is the, this is [00:08:00] the intimacy of the artist that is shared with others in the vulnerability of humanity, of their deep sense, of their personality and their self and their story, and how they have overcome obstacles. [00:08:19] Gone through difficult and hard times, and yet the embodiment of their energy in their artwork is a powerful presence. It is a gift to self and others. Such a gift that we want to remark about. We want to share it with others. It is remarkable that this work of art exists as a manifestation, as an embodiment of the spirit of the season, the spirit of family, the spirit of culture, and of place the [00:09:00] spirit of identity. [00:09:02] So I share with you one of the deepest, greatest secrets. In the art world, that art itself is a form of custodianship. And custodianship is a way for us to reclaim our sense of sovereignty, our independence, our interdependence, our relational truth, our sense of family and community, our cultural place. [00:09:37] Our cultural meaning, our identity art is a custodial act of sovereignty in the artistic process, then the work on the canvas and each brush stroke is an embodiment of presence. When you think of the brushstroke as an [00:10:00] embodiment of presence. The action of touching the canvas with that brush, with that paint and the delicacy and movement involved in that action. [00:10:15] It conveys energy, it conveys presence. It gives an immediate sense of the texture form, color. Power, meaning and story that the artist conveys. It is an external physical manifestation of the artist’s own body, of their energy, of their self. And in the sense each brush stroke becomes an embodied presence. [00:10:48] An embodied manifestation of an incarnational energy, an incarnational moment of becoming where we participate in the [00:11:00] creativity of the divine. We participate in the energy of the create creative, creative spirit within the spirit of evolution. The spirit of becoming. The spirit of mother Earth of, of creation itself is manifest through this creative process. [00:11:22] And so you look behind me at the beautiful flowers. Each stroke of the paint that created those flowers spontaneously manifested a beautiful moment, a beautiful insight, a beautiful presence. So each flower is a person. Each flower is in a sense containing the energy of personhood. That is the essence of character. [00:11:52] You know what I mean? The essence of a meaning, a story and identity, and that [00:12:00] form on the canvas moves through this mysterious process of beco
