Elise Schadauer
Merkaba in Needle Lace, 2020
Cotton Yarn, Wood Dowels 41" x 41" x 58"
This concept came to me as a download, like a movie, and was clarified in meditation. A Merkaba is sacred geometry formed by two intersecting tetrahedrons, or triangular pyramids, pointing in opposite directions to create a 3-dimensional shape. The Flower of Life sacred geometric shape is on each side of each pyramid. A fully functioning Merkaba spins fast in opposite directions, creating a light body and when in healthy function, full engaged and activated is always in motion harmonizing, balancing, expanding, moving, dancing, and flowing with the energies in all directions at all times.
Elise Schadauer
Waking Up, 2019
Cotton Embroidery Fabric, Cotton Yarn, DMC Embroidery Cotton Floss, DMC Embroidery Metallic Floss, Black Glitter Tulle 21.5" x 21.5"
"'Re-examine all that you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.' — Walt Whitman. Movies and entertainment can be, and have been, used as predictive programming to lull humanity into compliance. This piece is designed to be a spiritual trigger to awaken people from the deception that we are separate from our true selves and power." Common Thread Exhibit, 2020; Minnesota State Fair Art Exhibit, 2021
Elise Schadauer
25 Million Stitches Panel, 2020
Cotton panel, DMC embroidery floss 15" x 35"
One of 2,300 panels in the 25 Million Stitches Community Project to raise awareness of the immense number of peoples forcibly displaced from their homelands by violence and natural disasters; exhibited in Sacramento (2021), Flagstaff (2022), San Diego (2023), Vancouver (2024), Wisconsin (2024), and San Jose (2024).
