Your home is a reflection of who you are. It is here that you return at the end of the day for nurturing, inspiration, rest, and renewal. I believe that great care should be taken to create a home that inspires you to take a deep breath and smile when you walk through the door. When your space is in harmony, it is a center of energy, a place for you to become grounded.
As we go through our day we expose ourselves to the energies of others, power struggles, confrontations, and stress. When we communicate with other people, we are encountering their times of happiness, sadness, excitement or lack of excitement and possibly carry this with us. Often we may feel periods of anxiousness without ever knowing why. It may be at these times that we are on an overload of diverse energy.
Have you ever noticed that you experience times of feeling stressed, but after spending times outdoors you feel better, uplifted, lighter, and more serene? The outdoors grounds us. It renews or connection with the Earth and balance. It is this energy that we wish to integrate into our home. Feng Shui is one tool that we can use to achieve this.
Feng Shui has existed for thousands of years originating in China. Quite simply it is the art of placement. We use this art of placement to arrange our furniture and our “symbolic treasures” in a way that produces a more harmonized tone. While there are many schools (or forms) of Feng Shui we will be using the Bagua System, which tends to be the easiest for Westerners.
There are many benefits that can result from using Feng Shui:
Better Sleep
Improved Health
Increased abundance/ wealth
Growing Business
More Active Love Life
Harmonious Relationships
Love and Romance
Relaxation
Motivation
Respect
Advancing or starting a career
…are some of the few.
Below is a Bagua Map that is used in directing placement. You basically superimpose it over a single room or the entire house layout. For instance, if you are wanting to use the Feng Shui principles in a single room to place Art, you would stand in the doorway of that room facing in and while holding the map in your hands look to see where how the sectors divide up in the layout.
Bagua System
Wealth Fame Marriage/Love
Green, Blue, Purple, Red Red / Fire Red, Pink, White
Family Health Creativity
Green, Wood Yellow, Brown, Earth Creativity, White, Metal
Knowledge Career Helpful People
Black, Blue, Green Black, Water White, Gray, Black
Main Entrance
Please note that I added colors and elements underneath each sector that are associated with it.
To apply Feng Shui in the hanging of your Art, you can do this in a few ways.
You can hang your art according to the color associations.
You can also place your Art according to the theme and symbolism of the art and place in a sector that would resonate with that.
I will provide some examples using some of my own artwork.
Example #1
If my intention was to place art in the Wealth section, I would choose Art that either correlates with the color associated OR choose Art that represents Wealth to me.
In this example I am choosing a painting of Lakshmi, the Goddess of Prosperity.
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| Original Painting of the Goddess Lakshmi by Jeanne Fry |
(Prints are available of my painting in my Artfire Studio)
Example # 2
If you were wanting to strengthen the Wisdom (Knowledge) sector of a room, you could either choose Art that reflected the associated colors OR choose Art that represents Wisdom to you.
In this example, I chose one of my paintings called "Night Vision" of an Owl.
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| Night Vision by Jeanne Fry |
(8x10 Prints of my painting are available in my Artfire Studio)
Example # 3
If my intention was to place Art in the Fame section, in this example I am choosing to place a piece with a color that coordinates with the Fame bagua sector which in this case is Red as you can see in the Bagua Map above.
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| The Source - Tree of Life by Jeanne Fry |
(This original painting is available in my Artfire Studio)
Example #4
If my intention was to place artwork in the Creativity Sector of the room, I may want to choose work that is color associated which would be White as shown in the Bagua Map above.
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| Original Painting "Purity" by Jeanne Fry |
(This original painting is available in my Artfire Studio)
Example #5
And lastly, if I were wanting to place a piece of artwork in my Career Sector, I may want to do so with a piece that correlates with that element, which is Water as seen in the Bagua Map above.
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| Original Painting of Healing Waters by Jeanne Fry |
(This Original Painting is available in my Artfire Studio)
So, as you can see, you can use the Color to do your Feng Shui placement, or symbolism of Elements, or Symbolism of theme.
I hope this has been a valuable introduction to placing Art using Feng Shui.
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