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!

ever lasts for something

Nothing disappears completely

 Entropy and inertia

Everything comes from something

continuance

It seems as though the primary regenerative binary coupling that instigates autonomous equilibrium and individualization are summarized in the concepts of,

Guest            ====--------=====          Host

If one thinks of the body as the host it needs the guests of breathing, food and drink to move through the process it facilitates structurally.

Active exchange and interaction with vital elements that exist outside of the form of the self organized being are essential in maintaining homeostasis.

This is what it means to be animated, to move , to live,

A world  within that has specifically unique fluids, solids and gasses behaving in ways that sustain the operation of the living body.

These forms of fluids gasses and solids do not exist or behave in the outside world as they do in the countless individual living breathing things with specific nutritional / conditional needs contained in anatomical structure.

 Physical systems are interior dimensional environmental control.

 Bubbles with individual pressure and temperature with unique responses to energetic stimulations.

Failing to interact and exchange with the outside world, ( sensed or not ) is suffocation and starvation.

A collapse in self regulation

Nature has provided the same ability to all 

constant consistent repetitious rhythmic

movement

in-------------------out

take in============let go

welcome+++++++++++goodbye

Breathing is gradual and immediate,     adjustment adaptation acclimation 

Guest------------Host 

Awareness , consciousness, memory , attention is not required of the guest

food drink safe shelter and a place to rest

The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel is an Irish story that predates ADF , or My involvement with ADF.

It is a prominent continuance in resonant response over great difference in time space translation altering sensitivities dormant in my spiritual interior concurrent with vocalizations and actions as well as feelings associated with Voice and hosting friendly community worship experience  with what I had learned  and gathered from ADF, facilitating ritual blessing practice in the formation of a druid grove and illustrating a serial comic for the grove newsletter  predating My priestly recognition by the organization is this old story about the most accommodating place in the realm and the sacred king who seeks shelter and finds death there because he had broken the promises he had made to the spirits to generate fruitful bounty and abundance by keeping a just and equal peace by sparing his beloved but guilty foster brothers from execution and bending the law to exile them beyond, cast out to sea they encounter and make a deal with  a fierce one eyed pirate from Albu forcing them to aide in the killing of his own parents in his home realm and then turning to the former territory of the exiled foster brothers to destroy something as payment for sparing their lives and joining in agreement to provide a place owed to the fierce one eyed pirate as a fitting destruction betraying all that was good in a outlaw obligation they spy upon their target before attacking describing location surroundings intersecting water ways and roads the numbers of chariots and horses around the great structure itself with many faces and doors with a huge central fire hall that when lit was seen far and wide allowing for a detailed description of the interior its many rooms the occupants their possessions attire and vocation are delivered rhythmically by the spy asking for an analysis  at each step it is made clear how great  the assembly of great and strange things gathered in this noble place was and how tragic and costly the attack would be suggesting a different target to be overruled by the threatened curse of the one eyed pirate demanding his due and the exiled foster brothers oath bound outlaw honor to this horrible task which proceeds to the next spy view description followed by the interpretive analysis with its suggestion  of how tragic and costly overruled with a threatened curse till coming to a conclusion with the beginning of the attack with the interpreter being decapitated going in and out of the great gate a number of times at the onset of the first wave of attacks on the encircled Hostel just as he predicted the intelligence was correct and our sacred king had seen clear evidence of the degraded and eroding  relationship between structure order and balance between behavior and the landscape made explicit in his contract with the spirits predating his kingly recognition every omen and sign along the way had led him to a place and time that was understood to be his end foreshadowed in dream sending his champion and ultimate defense outside of the besieged hostel to fetch him a drink of water only to find that everything is dry till completing a circuit around and returning to a flaming ruin and a decapitated sacred king  who when given his drink sings praise to his champions execution of his command

What remains of a glazed apple turnover that did not make it into my mouth as intended but fell into my safety belt buckled lap while eating in the car.

It is strangely personal what we put into our person

How things end up, what is really taking place when we thirst and crave with a taste

 Our boundaries of awareness linked with a sense of preference and presence internalizing 

attracted to

Substance that is made up of the life energy spirit direction of other things arranged and prepared by yet others inspired by yet others in a complex fabric of control and creation that keeps us all going

Part of what I have picked up along the journey is that when I treat things as something special they respond to me  in a special way.

nourished by

making friends and learning lessons

What sticks around from the interactions its frequency and regularity effects sensitivity and attention

Feelings perceived or imagined are the medium of communication of immediate response followed by memory and reflection.     

 Thoughtfulness or logic may never come into play,

 but kindness and extending basic comfort always does.

continuance in generous benevolent attitude that is messy and leaves a lot of crumbs all around

nothing is empty                                                            nothing is original

Obsessing on biggest best personal exclusive on demand service is not healthy neopagan directive

Spiritually digesting the inspiration from respiration and expiration with perspiration and motivation.

Keep it real look at it deeper closer longer than you normally allow yourself to  and you will discover a level of understanding,( backstory)of the subject and objects circulating in immediate specific proximity to the observer- speculation as to actions and relations over time - develop not by the unique talents of the individual imagination but are a active body composed of the detritus of previous lives

                                                                              Guest - Host. 

nothing lasts forever

 All things will pass,

 no matter is permanent or inert but bound by the changing energetic field around it.

The Vital energetic exchange with the surrounding environment specific individuated.

Vibrational frequency     wave function    octaves scale  signal circuit  structure system

light - sound - heat 

All things traveling away from their source

Mortality and multiplication are the two sides of  Evolutions coin.

One presuming the other over time and space.

Death is Natures kindness, 

  Generating opportunity for others,

 a gift to  life that is .........the future.

and taking with it the individuals struggle and suffering

and taking with it the individuals sorrow and sadness

and taking with it the individuals stasis  and shape

Making the living world into which we are born.

It is a good thing that nothing is immortal .

It is a good thing that nothing is the absence of something .

It is a good thing that nothing is for certain .

Spiritual inquiry contacting guides assistance channel of the past and the passed.

Allowing for a degree of free will and agency in the sensitivity of the apparatus of communication.

Tuning  into and resonating with experience of non living things as environmental influencers .

Long  distance information 

Beings without bodies who have opinions of their own, a different point of view, something to say.

Keeping things kind

friendly greetings and farewell

questions cost a little 

no harm in playing

till it is time to move on .

omne vivum ex vivo

 Truth reveled with a tilted swan necked flask and boiled nutrient broth a few generations back.

Origin stories part of poetic language and the veneration of the past as self reflective composition.

well! tilt my axis!

 Seasonal change is the external instigator of my internal transformational agitator.

Feeling as if centrifugal force rotates a perceptual envelope beyond the curvature of now.

The spinning fate - destiny at the base of the center the root of the subject outside and beneath .

The foundational supportive framework of circumstance provided by most ancient non gods.

Uniquely polarized point of view distilling what will be from what has been

 Thread of mortal existence, continuity of spiritual being, linear form, stretchy and bendable.

All wound up in patterns and designs that are not of our own making,

 without hope of influence or persuasion

 beyond appeal we are blessed by beings before worship and without worship.

trust in the truth of the turning

charmed by the chance in change

grateful for the gift of growth

rewarded by the revolving regeneration

The stuff built into our making.

is the making yet to develop a material manifestation in anticipation of future function.

composed of predictive passive predestined particles pigmenting porous permeable potential.

A painting from college of the old stairway to my rooms door , half open upper right.

Vertical axis as center of my world and self concept when I began answering to the call,

                                                                       Druid !

Personal time line- the past life experience, growth recorded internalized memory habit flesh

Bound and twisted together in the unique singularity of individual being at the core of who we are.

Directional sense- the space between discernable spirits relative to one another- magnetic polarity

External directors beyond the interactive sphere routinely contribute to the turning of  magic current

                                                           "Sacred Tree grow within us"

Considering coincidence circumstance chance reflective retrospective resonant revolution

Considering connectivity continuity consciousness  returning regenerative regularity rewards

adjusting adapting approaching arriving                          sharing social seasonal survival solutions

time and temperature brought to you by....

traveling within the still flat surface plane

Everything makes waves in its passage

Everything leaves a wake behind

Energetic expansion extension exchange

away from the origin of the field disturbance and the returning displaced environs

Temporal tickling acoustic resonance responsive realm

Trembling  tactile temperamental transit tension tolerance trip tracking

Time spent together

closeness and distance

the space between objects feeling

companionship sensitivity

contours complexity currents

hope has an echo

formless and undefined things still cast  shadows

trusting in ability of touch and transfer

balanced circulation gradual adjustment

aggregated deposits accumulating conglomerate symmetry

compositional metamorphism elemental equilibrium 

greetings and farewells  all around

all stirred

all in the mix

collectively unable to reverse course or cover up tracks we leave behind

individually perceiving movement in relationship to a singularity that is self and other objects or things

internal location spirit level will power life propeller active in nearly everything all around

a lot of crossing paths

a lot of intersecting souls

a lot of combinations of energies

a lot of potential possibility in the solution regeneration culture growing in medium we find ourselves in