Today we’d like to introduce you to Kimberly Clo.
Hi Kimberly, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstories.
I am a visual artist gushing little love poems + wisdom teachings in the language of geometry. A language which we all, in fact, speak. Mine is a long and beautiful story about how I went from being a deeply devout Christian leader in my large Southern Baptist Church in Miami to have a sudden shift in consciousness upon the passing of my father when I was 35.
I painfully walked away from all of it – my beliefs, my community, my sense of “security.” I left it all behind except LOVE. I began allowing my curiosity about what others had to say about LOVE lead me. Over the years my spiritual adventures led me to study and also lead Goddess Circles. I studied Earth-based practices, yoga and meditation, tarot, and hermetic studies.
My psychic and healing abilities have expanded and strengthened, I do reiki, explored Taoism and Zen teachings. It’s been a delicious unfolding and exploration. LOVE as my guide has led me to the most exquisite places within mySelf.
My art communicates deeply nurturing LOVE and solid wisdom in the pure language of colors, circles, and dots.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
I don’t often talk about or focus on my painful past because it messes with my head as I face forward and grow in new ways.
The truth is there have been so many heartbreaks, family traumas, spiritual abuse, huge vulnerable efforts that I made in the past to put my unique gifts out into the world; only to end up in broken community, bankruptcy, and money shame for putting my family in financial jeopardy. I pursued something I thought would help, but instead, set us much further behind. I wonder if anyone else can relate to how this feels?
I have also navigated chronic pain all over my body since I was 12 and have only recently gotten a diagnosis that makes sense. I see the damages caused by self-gaslighting and my own internalized ableism as I have punished myself for things I could not help and can not change. Again… can anyone else relate?
Sharing my art and this emerging body of teaching AND doing it during this weird, world-shifting time makes me feel really brave and super grateful.
It has not been easy.
I have also not done it alone. I am deeply privileged to be supported by a loving husband and soul family that sees me and has my back and calls me out on my nonsense.
I have come so far from who I had been.
I feel safe to expand and test the limits of my creative capacity and I want to support others in doing the same.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I am a late-to-the-party visual artist. I was a hairstylist for 25 years. While I have always loved art, I only did it as a hobby. It scratched an itch. I never thought anything of it as a career.
In my delicious deep dive into teachings on LOVE, my adventures took me down the rabbit hole of Sacred Geometry – which is hilarious if you know me – I am no math person. However, I found the concepts and wisdom in Sacred Geometry to be extraordinarily stimulating and irresistible to parts of my brain that had never come online for me before.
At the same time, I was having very profound experiences connecting to the land where we had just moved. One acre in Madison, Tennessee. I was asking questions of my land and getting real answers back! Very profound and grounded teaching began to pour in. A body of teaching that has been growing and blossoming me into a completely different version of mySelf as a result.
Then one day, the skills I had gained with the compass and straight-edge intersected with the body of teaching from my land. I began to communicate in a way that felt very distinct from one day to the next. My visual art is communicating LOVE on many levels.
The colors are coded. Each color carries a whole body of wisdom. I can say many things more easily, elegantly, irresistibly, and ruthlessly in the poetry of geometry.
Where do you see things going in the next 5-10 years?
The way I see it, the only reliable fortune teller is the gardener. She knows basically what will grow and where because she planted the seeds herself. She would never plant a watermelon seed and hope for a tomato.
I don’t know where the world will be going in the next 5-10 years, but I do know it will be the fruit of whatever seeds we are planting right now. A peaceful world is made up of peaceful people.
We are planting the seeds of the future right this moment.
We are never getting out of this thing without LOVE being the answer and everybody knows it. My work is here to help make it easier to let LOVE in by the most irresistible and ruthless means of circles, lines, colors, and a jillion little dots.
I know my work is coming on the scene at the exact right time. I am curious to see where it will go and who it is for.
We are in the process of creating an app. so that folx who desire to go deeper with my work and who like the way I see things + the way I say them, can connect with me in meaningful ways. I will have regular updates about this exciting project on my website. Feel free to leave your email on my website if you desire to know more.
A Blessing for You, Dear Reader . . .
May you create anew according to your pleasure
May you shine your glorious light
May you take mature, responsible care of your creations.
May you know that you are safe
And may you honor the truth + fullness of your being
in your experience of
Pleasure
Beauty
Renewal
And
Devotion
So I say and so it is.
This is how I plant the seeds of the kind of New World I desire to live in. Here’s a short video I made to share another way of saying it. https://youtu.be/YYgBoxoRo90
Contact Info:
- Email: Yes@KimberlyClo.com
- Website: www.KimberlyClo.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/seedsofanewworld
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kimberly.clo
