A HEAVENLY FEAST FOR THE MAGIC OF OPULENCE

hi lovely you!

how are you doing? 

wherever you are i hope the sun is shining on your face.

 and if you are in the shadows i pray for you.

today is the day when christ went back to heaven after having risen to life after death, 40 days prior. the feast of the ascension. the lockdown because of this sadness virus did include the whole of easter. an easter that symbolises 

RE-BIRTH.

i hope and strive for a re-birth of me myself and for all of life. to start anew, to start practicing ahimsa for all of life. to only use what is essential, kindness to animals, animals as equals. to share resources to all of humanity and not only to a few. to see our mother earth as a gift we have received, a place we have been blessed to call our home.

to marvel of the wonder of the universe.

to marvel of all the creativity we humans were gifted. the gratefulness of this moment in time when it is easier than every to be in lockdown because of technology that we humans as birthed in to this world.

to acknowledge sadly that health is a privilege in our moment in time, it should be available for all. then all of us have the possibility  to make the good choices as we were given by god for our planet and others. as of now we have created a universe where a lot of people have no idea about the "good choices" or could have the energy to do the right thing since it's a daily awful struggle of surviving.

i have so many thoughts! i try to focus on hope and the goodness of us human beings.

during this time of being by myself since march 21st 2020 i have focused on creation. to do my art. to immerse myself as much as i possibly can with all i love, all that gifts me joy and fulfilment. it has been a lot of struggles but there has too been a lot of joys. the sun and early summer heat here in england has certainly been a helper in that.

nourish the moment

to seek beauty

this is what i need for myself. many years ago when i lived in new york and worked for the new york times magazine, deeply depressed and was struggling with an ocuring eating disorder since i was 12 years old, this wise doctor told me to go out and seek beauty, to be out in nature to seek out art that i loved to forget the little me and see something bigger that ultimately would bring awe and wonder to my life.  so many more layers here though (this will be to talk about at maybe another time)!

how i medicate myself is: 

to seek beauty. to nourish my moments.

to feed my brain as patti smith would put it.

i am joy

i have grace

i am creation magic beauty

- alice

you know what i am dreaming of for my life?

to live in my pink house surrounded by beauty. space, peace, quiet. to grow my own food. space for dancing creating. to share beauty and to gift awe to our universe. to be that god within me that i am. to experience life to its fullest, to be immersed in joy and for others to feel and experience the same. 

it's been a month since i greeted you last.

let's see what has happened here in epping.

let's have a feast of re-birth.

celebrations.

she wishes

devouring experimenting with roses

i have yet to edit this one.

do you see me?

pineapple beauty

 the other day i had a visitor whom left too soon🌸🌸🌸

creating art for mental health/ well being:)))💜

i have been baking:)

here is me devouring my almond oat cake and wine 

together with the magazine i hope to collaborate with one day, harper's bazaar of uk💜

if you want me to share the recipe i will!

 we have such glorious weather here in epping,

 so i can just wear a dress and sandals😊

i am creating lots of mixed media art, here is a work in progress!

various works during lockdown that i might work/ edit on soon:)

a close up

a version🌸

i do have a portfolio on vogue italia's website

the image below was also created this may during covid 19 lockdown, here in epping, uk when we were  in the early days of lockdown we could go out for excercise one hour/ day and i used it often to create my work. 

dear sister i am holding you💜

 see the original version here.

 this is part of my first ever self-portraitist series

the cherry blossom girl

april 2014

this image of a wild flower garden is from when i lived in east dulwich and often visited the beautiful dulwich park🌷

i think this dear inspiration fits today's specialness:

"angel"

by

abbott handerson thayer

such an inspiration🌸🌷

OH i forgot to tell you about my 3 month project that i started may 17th:) when i am deeper in to this project i will talk about it here! so maybe in june then!

let's create a heavenly feast for an opulence magic future😊💜

faith hope love

alice saga

EASTER TELLS YOU THAT IT'S POSSIBLE TO BE A NEW CREATION 🌸🌸🌸

         dear friend:

how are you doing?

it has been a long time since we've met. 

and i so hope you are doing ok!?

💜💜💜

for me it's time for an awakening, and to do that in the middle of a pandemic😲

 it might have to do with all beauty coming to life with spring, i don't know. what i do know is that i have been through much worse becoming homeless (this is a long story having to do with mental health which i hope to dare share with you one day) the fall of 2016 and not having a home where i could be ordered to stay inside, it taught me to take one day at a time. i still have trauma over those 2 months and i felt so alone, what is different now is that i have a home AND i feel part of the whole universe since we are all going through this together. i don't have my social places like my gym and ballet classes to go to so i have been all by myself for about 3 weeks now. and i can feel the pain for others whom are alone or stuck maybe in a small space with ones partner and even children (i don't know what is best here...to be alone or to not have the change to have ones own space for a period of only word knows how long), but for me this is sort of a relief, since staying with myself is my safe space.

my thoughts is that this can be start of a new beginning💫🌸💫🌸💫 

one filled with more gratefulness and one of a more loving understanding of how we are GUESTS hon planet earth and we need to treat our mother with love & respect. to treat all other co-habitants of ours with love and respect. a world of, as the yogis say, ahimsa. there is so much i could say here but for now this is enough.

we've just had the beauty of easter happening. a sacrifice for us to live an eternal life. when understanding this fundamental; it is possible to become a new creation. a fundamental i think in all various ways of defining your own truth. 

"easter tells you that it's possible to be a new creation"

-

dr. timothy keller

(he is the head  pastor of the church i went to on sundays when i lived in new york, redeemer where i attended the upper east side service and basically kept my head straight on what really is important in life. now i listen to their podcast "gospel in life" where i heard have been listening to his easter services)

i think in this moment in time we can ponder on being the cocoon becoming the butterfly, to when this is over we are to blossom and to be a new creation. 

to pray for all that are suffering 

but

to hold suffering and joy at the same time🌷

to say thanks for our breath to say yes to a better future.

here in epping finally the warmth of the sunshine kissed my cheeks and i was ready to go out and create. oh how dear i have missed you sunshine warmth!!!

my april 2020

 epping essex perfection beauty april 2020

and how to devour the gift of it just showing up just like that.

since the spring of 2014 my focus has been on telling my story through self-portraits. in 2013 a lot of sadness was going on and in all came to a "rock bottom" the 13th of february 2104. that spring i could not plan anything with anyone since i could not promise to show up, so i started my self portraits because i could let myself down if needed be. before this i mainly shot and styled models for fashion/ culture magazines and before that i worked as a fashion associate at the new york times magazine for 6 years where my whole life actually was through the lens of beautiful clothing creations. the aspiration of such beauty designed by alexander mcqueen, marc jacobs, valentino, dior etc etc devouring photography through the lens of tim walkers imagination and other such talented wonders. such a different me. i just wanted to be the dream (or maybe i am just the same still...)

here my love for vintage started though, there were such amazing vintage shops in manhattan then:))) (for me this means around 2002-2006) so come 2014, my work was still focused on sheer beauty but too to focus on sustainability focusing on only buying vintage and as years has progressed i have become more and more aware about so many things. so since april 1st (no joke😂) 2019, i have been a vegan! for our cohabitants and for our mother earth. yoga is new in my life and i try to practice ahimsa.

this is a new path.

every day my aim is to:

seek beauty

&

to nourish the moment

it is so important to see the beauty in this world.

it's a way of life to prosper i believe.

this is where i concentrate my work on right now this spring of 2020.

this image might be an option to work on

 my easter sunday in epping

one week earlier 

the outfit for the top image

 my easter sunday make up with the dress i wore for my day of editing.

 wearing a vintage dress that bought here in london 2015, 

a store that sadly does not exist anymore:(

a beauty in the area of spitalfields.

another outfit for my first self-portrait story created this april:)

my dear art teacher, and now my piano tutor jason rose shared this image on facebook today and oh how i wanna create this myself, 

me being all the participants of "the progress of spring"🌸🌸🌸

by

charles daniel ward

(source)

as of now i am to create a blogpost every 3rd week of the month and on the wednesday of that week since it is the 3rd day. three is what my whole universe surrounds upon. i am sure i will have to explain a tiny bit more in regards to this but i think for now it has been too much text already😊

i wanna leave you with this:

"i feel in this time...it is a necessity to have a plan, a manifesto, an alternative. it's a question of life and death of our species...after tragedies one has to invent a new world, knit it or embroider, make it up. it's not gonna be given to you because you deserve it, it doesn't work that way, you have to imagine something that doesn't exist and dig a cave into the future and demand space. it's a territorial hope affair...in the future it will become your reality."

- björk

(source)

dear friend take care

see you next month

💓

xxx

alice

RE-MEMBERING TO ONES MAGNIFICENCE

that is going to be my focus of my fall before the start of a new decade🌸

i am fully devouring a wonderful book

"conversations with god"

by

neale donald walsch

so many truths 

in this book

so much beauty

such magnificence

to 

re member

oneself

to

where we belong, 

where we came from and

 from who we came in to this world from

from the source

from god

from infinite intelligence

whatever you wanna call it

we are here to express the our magnificence 

so that god can experience life through us

we were made in the image of source whom created all things perfection

mathematically perfect

every single thing in our universe and how it works

is a study of sublime intelligence

anyways

i am so excited to dive in to all things that can make me a better human being

and too a better artist

to find the essence of how i want to express my life

(too to finish this book💜)

to be god's pleasure

i have decided that 

i will do one blogpost in the beginning of  the month

 instead of weekly ones

there is such excitement to better myself at all my crafts

not only photography 

but too my

painting, piano skill, the ballet practice, the poetry making

etc etc etc

too 

finish my new page where i sell some of my prints

&

build up my website:)

so next time we meet it will be november 5

october 

will be fully devoted to re member myself

to the family we all come from🌸

"nourish the moment"

(which is a motto i live in every day)

series i started creating this year of 2019

 oh wow that just came out

just like that

free thinking

from reading a book which i am only in the beginning of😊

this section of my flat is

now 

dedicated for drawing and painting

 i have other sections for journaling, reading, piano practice & singing 

flower pressing & of course my computer place where i do all the editing and such things:)

me

wearing a cacharel blouse and top shop skirt

lady with a dove

by 

john brett

if you wanna follow me more on a daily basis

then

i share a lot on my instagram stories

unfiltered and in the moment

re-member

&

re-mind

yourself

faith hope love

alice amorina solantania saga

THE LAVENDER BALLERINA 💜

hey lovely dear readers:)🌸🌸🌸

this will be a very short blogpost

since

 lately i have been feeling overwhelmingly tired,

 so

today i have taken a rest

no morning walk but baking instead:)

then sitting still at mr smith of epping 

to have my hair done by lisa💜

(to follow me on a day to day basis

 i do feel the ease of happiness instagram stories, 

so feel free to follow me over there)

now i am here cooking some vegan roast 

filled with things i love😊

plus a vegan gluten free desert:)))

for the cake bread i created the recipe myself and

 i will share it in my next blogpost

this is a work in progress of mine

the lavender ballerina

i thought is fitting since tomorrow i am to visit 

hitchin lavendar

with my friend sarah 

for £6 one can pluck as much lavendar as one can carry:))) 

i am not going only for this, i am going to enjoy spending time with

 sarah and to capture beauty:)))

sarah is the one whom 

got me to meet lilliane last week💜

a corner of my flat before the piano happened:)

me today

 monsoon dress

chloe glasses

this painting is not finished

but 

she is my

fille green

my cake bread 

with 

meridian peanut butter

and

swedish glace vegan ice cream

oh how i know how to create my own layer cake this cakebread as a base!!!

that will be a treat for my piano teacher jason and my mentor helen🌸

anyways

hopefully see you next week:)))

faith hope love

💜

alice

A DAPHNE 🌸🌸🌸

magnolia daphne beauty🌸

the below image is one i created as a dear memory of mine, one of meeting a daphne.

i did talk about this a tiny bit a couple of months back but thought it too sacred to share here at that time.

one morning,

 an icecold morning (minus 3),

 i was out at 4am starting my morning walk. 

20 minutes in to my walk i stumbled upon something moving and oh how it scared me.

  i realized quickly that an old lady had stumbled and fallen and did not know where she was, or why she was there.

 she was in a nightgown, barelegged. 

she was so cold.

 i at once called the ambulance/ police and oh did we have to wait. 

i gave her my coat my gloves my hat and i held her in my arms but she was still so cold.

 it took almost 2 hours for help to come.
barefoot:((( she was so soft yet sooo unearthly shivering cold.

i did know her name daphne,
 by then and
 that she did live with her daughter alison and her husband dave. 

for me this experience was one of humanity and love, 

daphne gave me love.
 how i adored her. 
this 93 year old woman she was my little one for those couple of hours. 

i had not felt that closeness with anyone for so long. yes it did give me love.

and oh how she was suffering😔

the police found her family,

 the ambulance came 

and thank god she survived. 

alison (her daughter) told me she had to go to the emergency (alison used another term, one that freaked her & me out)

she was so cold so everything was uncertain.

a couple of weeks after i met them in their home:) 

daphne in pink. 

the family, dogs 

and a lovely talking bird plus a garden that = magic:)

 oh dear daphne.

i was gifted this magnolia celebration flower which i now created art with its blooming blooms💜

dear daphne

 i have started to scan my polaroid images

started with the ones that has been affected by me moving house, spilling things on my dear art. the spilling was not so joyous but now i can see the beauty in it💜

 the above polaroid image is from my former garden in east dulwich.

the cats made my days

i too frequently visited richmond in its kew gardens:)

well i do visit this magic still even though further away.

 such a perfection beauty in the spring time

jessie dunne in my garden

see my sweetness?

she was always around checking me, protecting me.

(there are so many images here on my blog, here is one post)

how i love thee, 

let me count the ways💜

this fluffy thing:)))

epping perfection

how she was screaming let me in. now now now.

how i'd love this beauty to be my family.

 this morning i was to meet a lovely luis

dressed in some casual things feeling very joyous.

the curtain 

was my destination

a shoreditch hotel/ membership place

i loved it and i did love luis whom showed me around

 this is the veiw from their roof tarrace

east london wonders

together with an adorable spring day

at home

vogue us

hugely inspired by mikael jansson's talent portraits:))))

i wanna leave you with a recent inspiration of mine💜

this beautiful painting 

is a creation of

lucien levy-dhurmer

"bilitis"

oh such dear inspiration:))))

much love and see you next week🌸

xxx

alice saga

A SISTERLY FULL MOON CELEBRATION RITUAL AS GUIDED BY AN ALICE

since seeing my love jenny tallberg last week

 i have been so inspired by our conversation

 in regards to live ones life in conjunction with the divine feminine

 moon

this full moon that we were to devour this past weekend coincided with easter and the resurrection of jesus christ.

the full moon 

= 

nourishment and celebration of what works in ones life

 while releasing what is not working.

 this together with starting ones own resurrection, to live my future magic life now = such possibilities, such hopes of golden potential for us.

jenny ( a wonderfully talented artist just fyi)

sent me a couple of links to start reading up on all this. 

if you wanna read them too, you can here and here:)

a few days ago i too found out that i won a photography competition, that of london's school of photography:) i feel so blessed and grateful.

easter weekend has been such a sunshine summery thing:)🌸 the weather together with the most important weekend of all year has been wonderful. so much to step into. so much to devour.

each morning there has been podcasts of course on my walks, 

but most importantly i am almost finished with emily brontë's wuthering heights book. again the language of these women...tomorrow i am to finish it sadly, 

but luckily i have another jane austen book waiting for me:)))

thanks goodness for audible to let me read books while walking:)

i am too soon to start shooting still life portraits in my little place, since my dear helen came to help me cut up some plywood i have had in my flat for months, such a relief that this cutting is done:))) helen...how i adore thee let me count the ways💜

now i only need to paint my backdrops and then start creating beautiful set ups that i can shoot with various lenses.

on another note
🌸🌸🌸

i have played with this self-portrait today.
it was created among the beauty of richmond's kew gardens spring of 2015.

i did not intend to call it this,

since it was part of my faeries of the flower self-portrait series

but for now and with this manipulation of photoshop and picmonkey,

 i call it:

a full moon sister celebration ritual

 as guided by alice saga

this was the first day of no stockings for 2019:)))

wearing a cynthia steffe top

zara dress

and a marc jacobs hair pin

one thing for may:

 i might wear make up on more days than creation days😉

here i am in a vintage tulip dress 
&
chloe glasses
 devouring a summery spring day
listening to someone i adore, krista tippett
 (and her on being podcast💕💕💕)

this outfit is to embed a character, not sure whom but maybe a nun of sorts.

the dress and shoes i bought from a lovely ann.tique

the marie antoinette inspired shoes are made by iris corolla.

 such candy cake cuteness

an easter spring in epping

my helen:)))

my flat is to the left of this image.

i shared the joy of winning the lsp competition on my instagram stories:)

some art that inspires me at this magical moment of time

virgilio tojetti's

a spring maiden

butterfly wishes

by

charlotte bird

i want to leave you with a wonderful poem i found

by

jennifer welwood

i think it was read in one of the podcasts i subscribe to

unconditional

willing to experience aloneness,

i discover connection everywhere;

turning to face my fear,

i meet the warrior who lives within;

opening to my loss,

i gain the embrace of the universe;

surrendering into emptiness,

i find fullness without end.

each condition i flee from pursues me,

each condition i welcome transforms me

and becomes itself transformed

into its radiant jewel-like essence.

i bow to the one who made it so,

who has crafted this master game;

to play it is purest delight;

to honor its from - true devotion

each condition i welcome transform me

opening to my loss

the universe embraces me
i bow 

i wish you a magical rest of our week

see you next week:)))

love

alice saga