Sheri Munce

Increase Your Awareness
As you view the art above and read the art review below by Integral Life Aesthetics Editor Michael Schwartz, take notice of four primary lenses made available by integral aesthetics: the subjective/intentional space of the artist himself; the materials, medium, form and structure of the art work itself; the historical, economic and social structure in which the art work is created; and the cultural, linguistic and intersubjective values space in which the artist works and/or seeks to express.

If you would like more details, be sure to check out Michael's exquisite exploration of integral aesthetics: Looking at the Overlooked.

The great Vietnamese Buddhist teacher and adept Thich Nhat Hanh once wrote that words like “love” and “joy” are wounded words, ravaged and worn thin by time, and in dire need of healing.

Munce goes by the artistic name of She, a shortened version of Sheri, attesting to her commitment to bring forth in her own unique way the waves and wisdom of the Feminine Divine. This is no small calling, as almost every single one of us—young and old, male and female—secretly craves the ongoing influx of the Being-force that is Her.

Our collective hyper-masculine¹ habits can readily misconstrue Munce’s art as “sweet,” “saccharine,” and “nice”. But within the suffusing energy of these sophisticated works is a Divine Sweetness and Tenderness that embraces all flavors of existence: simplicity and complexity, boldness and delicacy, pain and pleasure, the ragged and the flowing.

The imagery ranges brilliantly from Kosmic Hearts to glowing heroines, to innovative abstractions, to enactments of dance and prayer, to timeless archetypes of Spirit like the Tree of Wisdom. Each and every work is singular, each and every surface lovingly rendered, scintillating with the mutual care of part and whole.

Sheri’s work represents a rare opportunity for healing, a tender space where Love and Joy dance freely, untouched by the vulgarities of our wounded world. Whatever the particulars of your own incarnation—man or woman, masculine or feminine—allow the gift of Sheri’s art to wash over you and through you like a sacred salve for the soul.

¹On the terms of “hyper-masculine” as characteristic of humanity’s collective inheritance, see the work of Integral Spiritual Experience teachers Saniel Bonder and Linda-Groves Bonder.