Creative Power
- Gabriel Corchado

- Mar 27, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 5
The pencil rocket blasts off into the limitless sky of creative potential. As an unborn baby chick pierces the limitations of its egg and cracks the shell in order to experience life beyond its limited confines, the tip of the pencil rocket pierces beyond the outer most edge of the Earth's atmosphere poking its head into outer space. In the illustration, this represents breaking previously perceived unattainable limits and experiencing a taste of the liberating infinite vast expanse of the creative potential of the Universe.
The spider beneath the pencil rocket symbolizes the Creative Power out of which all of life is created. Spiders are teeming with creative energy. They are extremely artistic and creative. This is demonstrated in the way they spin their amazingly beautiful webs which are undoubtedly a work of art.
The symbol of the sacral chakra is placed on the spider. This chakra or energy center is associated with emotion, sexuality and creativity. Sexual energy is creative energy. When channeled downward and outward it can create human life. But when it's channeled inward and upward this sexual energy can be expressed into other creative endeavors such as art.
The energy of creativity is associated with the color orange. It's also the color of the pencil rocket. The color orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow. Orange is the color of creativity, passion, sexuality, confidence, joy, enthusiasm, intuition and promotes a general sense of wellness.
The sun beneath the pencil rocket represents raw power. It's this enormous fireball of energy. The sun represents light and Life. Without sunlight life on Earth wouldn't exist. Yellow is the color of sunshine, hope, happiness, optimism, positivity, energy and clarity.
The grass, plants, flowers, mushrooms, insects and animals represent the diversity of life in it's many forms that are birthed and come forth from this creative energy. Although people are not seen in this artwork, but there's a kite. And it's assumed that if there's a kite with a string, it's being flown by a human even though they aren't in the picture.
The kite along with the dirigible, jet plane, satellite and pencil rocket are man made objects which all allude to humans as being part of the web of life and the fabric of creation even though they’re not directly seen. The number two on the pencil rocket is in reference to the No. 2 pencil which is one of the most well known pencils.
The lead in the No. 2 pencil is not too dark and not too light, and it's not too hard or too soft. It's generally considered to be in the middle of the HB (hardness/blackness) pencil scale. Because of this in between or middle ground, the No. 2 pencil is akin to what the number two symbolizes which is harmony and balance. In the diversity of life there's a harmony and balance in the web of creation which allows for all forms of life to co-exist at once and to be interconnected with each other.

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