My name is Centina Alexa, and I live between worlds whose wonder has been with me for as long as I can remember, entering the things I make, accompanying the things I love. Even my melancholy belongs to this tenderness. I have come to know it as the beauty of depth.
I make art in the hope that something of your own vastness will meet you there. That you will pause before a being, before some small gesture of beauty, and feel your inner life stirring towards you. Your particular beauty. The strength that lives quietly within it. All that is yours, and could belong to no other life.
I love kaleidoscopes and the tenderness of this world. I had to learn to love this life, and to recognise the wonder of thoughts mirroring themselves in deep shadows.
I love how light breaks across a prismatic room, scattering itself through fog and the frequencies believed to be unseen. For a long time, I kept myself a secret and carried these worlds within me, along with their mystery and the deep feeling they asked of me.
Everything we are is constantly moving, within and without us, and often, not much is needed to find our way back into the centre of our hearts. The maze is made outside us; what is true to you feels natural, never like an endless spin of possibilities. Your natural state is expansion: the cultivation of your truest and most unique self, and your ability to shine within your strength. Your potential is always ready to be seen, faced and shared.
I had to learn to become, allowing myself to be reached by depth and the truth behind veils. I choose to feel as deeply as I can, and to embrace the remembrance of all this beauty in our world: the awe in our eyes, the depths that carry us through portals and across this earth.
It was responsibility for our hearts, and attentiveness to the sensitive ways our souls are made to communicate, that taught me to release mask after mask after mask. Through this process, I learned how vulnerability is our greatest strength, and began to recognise the calling I am humbly stepping into now: the single-minded focus on embodying and being radically true to ourselves, on choosing to act through pure creativity and flow.
Gradually, my own face became visible to me. My depth found its expression; my strength grew from the tenderness with which I could finally meet myself and embrace all that I AM.
When you come to me, I hope you feel that your life is being received with care. That there is room for its mystery, its unfolding, its still unspoken possibilities. And that, in being seen, you begin to feel the vastness of your own heart—the beauty of being precisely, irrepeatably, you.
Why I create
I make art to help you remember your depth.
Your true, individual beauty.
Your infinite strength.
The beings
Meet the beingslove is
the whole mirror
everything else is fire and gold;
