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ENCHANTMENTS OF NATURE
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In the studio
Resplendent Waters is a series of oil paintings that investigate the mysteries and enchantments of water and light. Within each work, a central form — a symbolic vessel of the spirit — is suspended in luminous, shifting landscapes. The landscape explores themes deeply intertwined with the luminaries; the celestial bodies that govern rhythms of existence that imprint their order upon the earth. And ultimately contemplating water as origin and life source, with memory, shaping all living systems and mirroring the hidden architectures of reality itself.
Ongoing Projects
LIGHT/LIFE is a multimedia project, through conversations with a diverse range of experts, exploring the interplay of darkness and light across the universe, the natural world, and the human experience and spirit.
LIGHT / LIFE
Examining the full spectrum of light, both visible and unseen, and its generative role across scale. From quantum fields to stellar formation, this thread traces the elemental forces animating life and cosmos alike. Light emerges as principle, presence, and mystery.
Science
The psyche unfolds across shifting terrains of shadow and light. Experiences of inner contrast shape memory, identity, and perception. Darkness and light, in this context, become forces in the transformation and architecture of the self.
Psychology
The dance of darkness and light has long shaped human inquiry into existence, meaning, and truth. Born from the desire to understand what lies between shadow and illumination, philosophy offers frameworks to navigate paradox, wonder, and the unseen web of our knowing.
Philosophy
Spirituality
Light and darkness stand as fundamental guides in the spirit’s search for meaning by revealing truth through contrast. Across spiritual traditions, they embody forces of conflict, surrender, renewal, and divine mystery. This inquiry turns toward the inner landscape shaped by awe, discipline, and the longing for transcendence.
Art gives shape to the elemental tension of darkness and light. It responds through form, color, sound, gesture and language to reveal that which defies ordinary expression. Across time, artistic expression has offered a way to make sense of mystery, emotion, and the forces that move both nature and spirit.
Art
Meet Ashley
Ashley Taraban is a visual artist whose oil paintings investigate how light, water, and energy reveal patterns of intelligence in both nature and spirit. Drawing on research, intuition, and observation, her work traces resonances across science, myth, and the metaphysical—inviting a contemplative way of seeing the living world. Through her practice, she opens portals into wonder, memory, and belonging within a luminous cosmos.
“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead....Enough for me, the mystery of the eternity of life and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality, together with the single-hearted endeavor to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the reason that manifests itself in nature..”
— Albert Einstein