wisdom ~ wonder ~ will

 seemingly simultaneously  sympathetic science superstition search somehow shines shifting sentiments 

shadow shapes surface seams seen surprisingly solid surroundings streaked symbols slipping secret sanctuary

technique ~ technology ~ truth

 

Collected and crafted combinations contributing communicative creative consciousness

Curatorial  complexity contained crowded collaborative community chosen cornered by me

Cosmic centering ceremonies contrast colonial cultural conditioning about conquest and control

Curiosity challenges constraint complacency  comfort comes change cycles  caring continues 

Celebrating connectivity commonality celestial compatibility current channel charge contemplation 

show and tell at the lost and found

Time is talking in it's sleep.

Impossible to imagine the dream that provokes the moan and mumble,

the incomprehensible utterance that is the voice of the world.

                        mindless babble- thoughtful drone- persistent hum,

                                                  all story- our story, is this story,

never meant to be understood as a complete and separate thing ,

 but descriptive of process.

 

 

salus - audhumla

 Salus  is a Roman Goddess associated with public health and sanitation, my painting of her based on a  coin struck in the time when the sewer system was seen as a sacred devotional teaching and practice of a benevolent and wise being who choses to share and give of themselves blessing and knowledge to people to benefit the whole of the community.

the more sophisticated and concentrated the social interaction or psychic engagement becomes a spiritual urbanization of human values puts avoiding sickness as a key directive for future survival.

Clean as protection of illness that passes from one to another

- not all sharing is intentional-

-not all spiritual expressions are healthy-

carry away from this place through dark and deep unobstructed  flow

out and away not here to stay or down below to grow

Audhumla is the Cosmic Cow subject of this larger painting,

 a product of my imagination inspired by popular English translations of primordial Norse origin of life story.

Before the Gods

Between Fire and Ice

A most inhospitable  place of extreme energetic polarized opposition

frontier of  flame and fog - frost and melt - crust and drip

salts and substances deposited and transformed a material mineral essence that was no longer  a singular fixed  nature of fire or ice

elementary individuation of forms the building blocks of relationship, connective tissue, chemical exchange

nutritious collections encrusted in the space between

fertility in place 

Life in balance

food for the first food

Licked up by the most ancient great giver - milk flowing- feeding all worlds - all nature of beings

unsophisticated original being

transforming the space around it without awareness, intention or will

a simple hunger for the undigestible, oblivious not - god  begins the cycles of giving 

what sustains what

what is born from what 

seemingly solitary singular body with no sense of family,  kinship or belonging

no sense of flavor for what little there was to survive on

how could you know what you were starting?

with nothing and no one to compare

friend and feast

Yet Another Summer's End

 Communication between things naturally exists .

life experience need not be bound up in a moral narrative and relationship with sacred teaching.

It can be viewed as part of a common theme of biological activity involving revolving periods of conscious directed action, and times of unconscious rest , sleep or dormancy.

The other side of Life.

Life cycles , Life spans, Life times

Generations enmeshed in regenerative revolutions returning reflexively

perennial rotation  geosynchronous distribution  deciduous dynamism 

Transmutation between things naturally exists .

There is a transformation that takes place in the sharing of something from one being to another.

The substance expressed is rarely consumed entirely, often selectively noticed and reacted to.

What is taken in is a digested translated adaptation interpreted composition of the original subject.

Lots of little changes in a extended balanced continuation of  forms 

Resiliency generators - complexity developers -  wonder workers

Detritus dimensional doorways  nothing is wasted, nothing forgotten, nothing stays the same

Little things make a big difference in the long run.

Acknowledging the magic of intention as making a " gift " a special exchange,

Accepting something and expressing gratitude for being the recipient  of something thing they are free to reject is the distinctive feature in differentiating blessing from burden.

Essential qualities of recognition in benevolent action as a force that guides nourishes and heals.

structure of interaction- observational sensitivity

The image above a work still in progress,

The Herbs that grew from Miach's grave placed on Airmed's Cloak.

 Flexibility is in large part dependent on oppositional applications of force or pressure in a channel of limited space.

a point of restriction of possibility

a condensation of opportunity

choice is often   one way or the other 

  a simple switch or valve - hold on or let go

Naturally occurring support structures exist around us and within us.


The branching crotch between trunk and limb,

carrying on the movement, in time and space.

 directed dividing

 a border expanding with a respect for the point of connection.

a common reference beyond  individual sense of center - balance - base .

a feeling of attachment - of being part of something-

recognizing a conductive pathway of blessing
representing the exchange of vital energies and the interactions of spirits
between here and there.

 

essential harvest of external host

 

The image above a work in progress,

The Herbs that grew from Miach's grave placed on Airmed's Cloak.

The  repeated phrase ,

" joint to joint , sinew to sinew"

 Emphasizing the connective joining and bonding of independent free moving elements in the whole of the body in action.

The points of connection between spirits ,

and people  is articulated,

a hinged arrangement,

hanging balance

enter and exit

beginning and end