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​​Let's celebrate the feast of life for the love of everything

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This is how you could describe the complete works of Dorothea Berndt-Söffker (DBS).

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When change and maturity characterize midlife, a new task unexpectedly presents itself to you. A desired break turns into 15 years of travel between Germany, Sri Lanka and India.

Right at the beginning, an old master path opens up to her, in which art and spirituality form a unit. She delves into the wisdom teachings of yoga and Buddhist meditation.

The Indian cultural heritage in particular arouses her research interest. Overtone music, drums, Zen arts and healing play are other focal points of her work. These experiences and the insights gained from them are consolidated in the texts. With just a few words and strokes, the artist succeeds in conveying comprehensive content and a variety of feelings. In participatory observation, she draws from the processes of nature, from becoming and passing away.

As if heaven and earth embrace, so it appears. Man is part of it. The whole remains collected in the clarity of meditation. It is a human vision imbued with humor and goodness of heart. The spectrum ranges from song-like quatrains to abstraction.

The self-experienced purification gives the reader a stream of joie de vivre, the strength to open up or to start anew. The lower case invites you to read slowly. The simplicity of the delicate watercolor and ink painting goes hand in hand with the texts. In this way, the book creates the opportunity to encounter the inner truth as a moment of happiness.

DBS finds a way to simply being and becoming human from the supernatural of religious and ethical wisdom teachings.

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to lead a harmonious life

is the wish of many people

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The mediating role in art

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Let's share the wisdom of everyday life for the love of everything

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In the artistic work of DBS, spiritual and ethical currents from the East - West tradition and the present are combined. They lead to the wisdom teachings of the Buddha, the natural law for humans, the "Dhamma", and the ancient Indian Veda, the synthesis of yoga.

It is an effort for peace in the world in which religions and cultures treat each other with understanding.

Art thus has an old mediating role between the cosmos, man and God.

In this sense, painting is perceptual knowledge, where the mind strives for proper concentration and can detach itself to see the reality of its true nature in quiet joy.

This process of painting the way it is is an intuitive process in which "breath, heart and hand" come together. (Po-shih, ancient Chinese painter)