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Bang Hai Ja
As a sickly child growing up in South Korea, Bang Hai Ja lay in bed and watched through the window as light danced off a stream in her grandparents garden. While other children played, she became obsessed with sunlight and how she could capture its illusive beauty through brushes and paints. When she died at the age of 85, Hai Ja was known the world over as ‘the artist of light’, and so celebrated for her depictions of light in all of its forms that the young girl looking out her window would not believe how well she accomplished her dream. Hai Ja’s dedication to light was not purely aesthetic, she understood light as the beginning and end of the everything, the first creation of the universe and to where the universe and its being will all return. This is reflected not just in the work, but in the process. Hai Ja only uses natural materials, infusing her work with the lifeblood of the universe, and begins each piece with a crumpled piece of handmade paper placed in the centre, from which the rest of the composition is built around. This is the first light, the origins of the universe, brought alive by Hai Ja again and again.
Thursday 10th September
The Moon moves through Leo today, bringing warmth and vitality to the fruiting realm of the garden. Modern nutrition often understands food by separating it into proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals. While this reveals much about its chemical composition, biodynamics also asks us to consider the living form from which that nourishment arises and how each part of the plant relates differently to the human being. Roots are associated with the head and nervous system, leaves with the rhythmic activity of the heart and lungs, and flowers, fruits and seeds with the warmth and activity of the metabolic system. Steiner also suggested that different foods accompany different stages of life, with milk supporting the growth and formation of the young, while honey carries concentrated warmth and may be especially valuable for older people. A Leo fruit day invites us to see nourishment not only as a collection of nutrients, but as something shaped by the whole plant, its place within nature and the living forces working through it.
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