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spiritus : breath, spirit, vital principle, vigor, agency
numinous ⦿ daimonic ⦿ preternatural
24in x 36in. / 60.96cm x 91.44cm. Acrylic on canvas. February 2014.
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harbinger
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27.5in x 35.5in / 70cm x 90cm. Acrylic on canvas. Repaint. January 2013.
Painted over in 2018; now a textured dimensional landscape
― sky, trees at elevation and downslope with steps ascending
from water in foreground.
the be(e)
The complex figure suspended in the void is both static and psychoactive. The head floats freely in the head-space of a bee, the body and wings of which integrate
with the human form whose fingers sensitively monitor liquid flows of vital essence, honey perhaps, solidified beneath his feet, delimiting his path.
This piece was created during a time of intense crisis and remained preternatural for several weeks, moving and communicating whenever I engaged it.
For a write-up on this, see Krittika Nakshatra, a January 2013 brief, where
"The Be(e)" is presented as an illustration.
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27.5in x 35.5in / 70cm x 90cm. Acrylic on canvas. 2011.
the daimon
a depiction of the daimon (Gk.) or genius (L)
referring to the divine inborn nature presenting
here in a horse showing multiple orientations united
at center where soul or host personality is seen
For a brief essay on the daimon, see Daimon, Genius: Character, Calling, and Transcendence.
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.5in x 22.25in dia / 1.27cm x 56.5cm dia. Acrylic on plywood. March 2012.
Catharsis
Time has stopped
connections dropped
dilating, a receptive cone
expanding inward — alone
no need to rush, no row to hoe
for that which seemed to just before
is not of matter anymore.
And falls away my old attachment,
decathected, laid to rest,
a willing abnegation, yes,
but also loss, a meaning less,
a sense of failure and regret,
persona death, inflated breast
which gentle ursus claws to bone
and calls to Hekate Chthonia
for reconstruction and rebirth.
Catharsis is complete
when rises deep from silence vast
an inner force of lilith cast
sublimity renewing
seeing hearing doing
time again engaged
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catharsis
1803, from Latinized form of Gk. katharsis "purging, cleansing," from kathairein "to purify, purge," from
katharos "pure, clear of dirt, clean, spotless; open, free; clear of shame or guilt; purified," with most of the extended senses now
found in Modern English clear, clean, pure, of unknown origin. Originally
medical in English; of emotions from 1872; psychotherapy sense first recorded 1909, in Brill's translation of Freud.
Catharsis
Online Etymology Dictionary. Accessed 24 February 2012. |
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katharós [catharus]
(a primitive word) — properly, "without admixture" (BAGD); what is separated (purged), hence "clean" (pure) because unmixed (without
undesirable elements); (figuratively) spiritually clean because purged (purified by God), i.e. free from the contaminating (soiling)
influences of sin.
2513. katharos
Strong's Greek: 2513. Accessed 24 February 2012.
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16in x 20in / 40.6cm x 50.8cm. Acrylic on canvas. March 2012.
Mila, the Optimist
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle
(→ popularly attributed to Plato or Philo of Alexandria, but Ian Maclaren, Scottish author
and theologian [born John Watson] is the actual source).
Sunday, pierced and bloodied, weary, forlorn of hope, failed
in so many ways, bone cold, too numbed to speak i cast it all aside to paint.
I'd begun a numinous piece two days before and thought i'd work on that some more
but, instead, a wondrous being took her place, took shape on my canvas, pulling me from wretched spit
to ethereal light. Today she said her name. | |
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32in x 40in / 81.28cm x 101.6cm. Acrylic on canvas. 2011.
the transformation
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16in x 20in / 40.6cm x 50.8cm; acrylic on canvas. 2012.
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Kallisto
Beautiful nymph companion of Artemis vows to remain a virgin,
hunt in the mountains, shun the company of men,
but Zeus finds her desirable and falls in love,
sleeps with her disguised as Artemis
(some say Apollo, brother of Artemis), and then,
pregnant, Kallisto is changed into a bear
(here the tale takes different paths)
by Zeus, who wants to hide his love and save her from his wife Hera's jealous rage;
by Hera, who angrily transforms Kallisto, then persuades Artemis to slay her;
or by Artemis, who, observing signs of pregnancy when Kallisto disrobes
to bathe with the other nymphs, seeks to punish her for loss of virginity. 1 | |
bear medicine conveys
strength stamina renewal
patience discernment wisdom
introspection dreaming healing
meditation vision shamanic journey
intuition inner-knowing transformation
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20in x 26in / 52cm x 66cm. Acrylic on canvas. 2009.
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medicine bear
1974 age 24, just yesterday and a lifetime ago,
a 200µg drop of clinically pure lsd on a quarter inch square of notebook paper,
dissolved on the tongue, too late now, said my friend,
some tension, some dread, something i said, misread,
know i should go, yes, you should, ran the thread
on north vancouver island that cold, still winter night, snow, drifts along and far beyond the recently plowed road, crunching sharply beneath my feet, moving west in moonlit
darkness, alone unknown lonely frightened confused when the white dog emerges from the void, reassuring, a guardian, leading me forward, deeper into darkness,
speaks with every dog who challenges our passage, and each in turn is silent, ― she is several paces ahead of me when to the
right, in an autumn forest, i encounter ‡ two wrestling bears ‡ near the ‡ great bear medicine woman ‡ who floats in mid air, who sees and heals,
who speaks to me ⇒ i hear • feel • understand « we want you to be a healer »
some time later dog and i come to a frozen lake at the end of the road, where i rest a spell, behold the stars, while she scouts around the perimeter ...
partway back, where we first met, she nuzzles me goodbye, i thank her, she turns, returns to the night
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BEAR GODS AND GODDESSES (or associated with bear):
Artemis, Diana, Andarta, Artaius, Artio, Hu Nonp, Jambavantha, Kaiti, Kim-un Kamui, Rksavaktra...
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27in x 39in / 68.6cm x 99cm. Acrylic, latex, india ink on burlap. 2007.
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the buck
spirito primitivo
o mighty buck,
i draw you, call your name
to run as one, o mighty buck,
to feel your thundering heart,
your fierce vitality, impassioned, free,
driving out conflicting thought
to absolute simplicity
o mighty buck,
i let them go,
extinguish predilections so,
running, seeing,
open lo,
becoming
spiritus mundi
o mighty buck | |
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12in x 36in / 30.5cm x 91.5cm. Acrylics on canvas. 2011.
internal review
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