It's the thought that counts

 People witness the call to enter sacred space with the declaration of the intention of honoring the many beings, gods and not gods that bless our world and our lives.

The first sacrifice is offered to our most common and ancient relationships of the living and dead that make up what we know and have yet to discover about the vastly huge and immensely complex truth!

EARTH

Mother of being

Lands of All Living

Generator of generations

All the way back

The one and only Original

The Real Deal

The Whole Thing

without idealization, without romanticization,

without interpretation, without exaggeration,

without expectation of special favor, without exploitation of practice 

without fear of penalty, without obligation

offer of our selves this freely given gift to the Great Giver

a tiny bit from a tiny bit part of bigger things of bigger things

genuine authentic appreciation for a nurturing benevolent current that runs through the ages and things of this Living and Dying Place shared as a growing body shared as it is by all generously as particular participants in planetary personhood recognized here and now

Our Ritual in your name 

with our breath

with our sound 

with our words

in our voice

we pray

Earth Mother                                           Accept Our Sacrifice!

age

 A watercolor of a Copepod on the same size paper block as the Gods and Goddesses series I have painted- accumulating into the yet to be born -Perrin's incomplete guide to Gods and not gods-

of which, The Cailleach appears on the cover of ADF's publication OAK LEAVES currently. 

I have had my work on the cover before, but this is a return to the series that was featured on ADF's publication The Druid's Progress report number eight fall 1991ce Cernunnos and again with report number nine spring 1992ce Lugh.

the series, sold as individually crafted cards in a limited micro community is mostly work before associations with Priest, Clergy, Reverend and the general public. The Cailleach was painted mid-nineties.

The Copepod was painted after Priest, Clergy, Reverend. Somewhere about a decade into the next century that I find myself in now.

Becoming part of a series of common Aquatic Macro Invertebrates it had a lot in common with my previous series on that size watercolor block.

Attempting to appreciate and differentiate members of a community of different beings that exist in our reality largely unseen.

Putting down on paper what I am inspired to look for in study and observation as an imperfect reference of appearance and disappearance over time and place.

My attempt to get to know the subject in the shaping of a representational image that is an exploratory and enthusiastic characterization -as a memory aid and facilitator of understanding.

Excitement in identification and recognition- I was possessed by the subject and the need to paint it for myself.

magic revelation of different scales and time uniquely shaped pieces that fit together in a larger puzzle 

containers

Oar Foot

Individually lateral symmetry mobility up front with one eye

buoyant boundary of bug beginnings

giant of the microscopic world and smallest surviving paired paddle swimmers of the planktonic world

independent autonomous agency exhibited by numbers of individual movement decisions in the lives of millions of beings of common propulsion method and sensitivity for surroundings

 hungry self-directed bodies in the billions over the millennia

collective clusters communities' coastal continuity

largest single animal biomass on earth

possibly the most continuous eating, breathing, crapping contributer to the carbon cycle

moving molting masses of transparent jittery specks ravenously consuming all the phytoplankton found

first foragers first harvesters first meat first meal, first to find and first to flee

significant persistent common animal present planet population pointer

Prehistoric macroscopic prototype crustacean still dominating the wet domain

Ancient fertile awareness existing unseen within the waters

something simple that is so prolific when active extending the range of habitat beyond the limits of its potential support but leaving behind a dormant and resilient next generation to awaken and spawn in a new age.

I think Oak Leaves may have another cover with a watercolor of a goddess from the old series from the same size paper block painted before Priest, Clergy, Reverend coming out this Spring.

looking forward to it

light energy is formative and directional

 

The suns light has shown upon the living films and concentrations of the giant spheres surface of this body of matter for eons.

The properties of matter, solid, liquid, gas remain the same over time along with gravity as the compositional diversification driven by the chemical conversion of energy of a specific slice of the spectrum of cosmic radiation   - green life is a generator and capacitor in the primordial mud of then and now.

With the respiration of green life is the creation of free oxygen on the Planet.

This reactive gas dissolved in solution distributed thermodynamically across the surface area of the liquid surface before the crust accumulated from deposits to create the continent to be.

the sea and sky were first in existence before the land emerged as a solid form, what we think of as earth

what we think of as stone 

what we think of as mineral

what we think is solid

what we think of as habitat and home for life being the offspring of lights penetration through a revolving liquid lens.

life planktonic

Animals that need to sense food develop light sensitivity organs that are responsive to a wider and faster discernment of available ambient light as well as a nervous system to interpret and react to a visual field.

Eyes develop with animal anatomical complexity in a recognizable head that is sensitively responding to what it is seeing, particularly other things with eyes.

Eyes are organ of awareness the physical development and shaping are a product of the qualities of light itself instructing generational life how to specialize and optimize.

Leaves develop with vegetable anatomical complexity as a recognizable outgrowth that is responding to the directive influence of changing light, particularly seeking and anticipating future light.

Leaves are an organ of respiration and photosynthesis with great variation as to form and shape specializing in surface area transforming light and water into life to be connected and cycled within the structure of the body in a relatively fixed position to light outside.

Green life is able to develop physically and structurally in the stability of the shallows of the last super continent to break up

Life Pangaea

Life was adapting to a radically new environmental condition outside of liquid surroundings.

Drying out was the lesson taught to life allready familiar with death

Trunk and branch, limb and root holding precious fluids within non buoyant bodies

 feeling gravity            feeling verticality     feeling less density and pressure

Feeling greater fluctuation in temperature place energy exposure to solar radiation and gas exchange

Animals and plants get thirsty and breathe easy in a whole new way on this planet in direct connection to the precise angle of the suns passage in the daytime sky.

receiving signals from our local star tuned into its frequency turned on by its intention we respond.

we are nurtured intimately by a vastly distant brilliantly radiant body that shines through empty cold darkness to animate and inspire!