I absolutely love this. So much cultural richness in a tiny seal! Through your words and your beautiful painting I was transported to an ecstatic celebration complete with a ritual dance that sounds like bells. Where divine visions are shared between women. This reminds me of the freedom and joy of practicing witchcraft outdoors (which is something I seldom get to do). Lovely post!
Love this article and your art! So beautiful and I just find the color palette so gorgeous and juicy. Thanks for sharing and offering up the idea these images help us continue this "living tradition" - the first certainly looks like an ecstatic dance ritual to me. Let's all dance and connect!
Yes! We are sacred dancers! This was the first work in this series, and I was trying to give the feeling of the gold from the ring. I feel like what I ended up with is more like deep sunshine.
Very interesting and beautiful! I'm not sure what the dotted lines are, but I gather they are a common feature in shamanic trance journeys. Depictions of them have been found in shamanic paintings all over the world, ie in different shamanic cultures. They seem to appear in visions. I wonder what they represent?
Do you mean the black dotted lines around the figures' heads? That's their hair, depicted in a stylized fashion. But now that you mention those other dotted lines, it makes me wonder if the Minoan artists were doing a sort of double entendre here, with the hair also representing whatever those dotted lines represent in shamanic art. I have some personal experience with something similar in my own spirit work, but unfortunately it's in a context that I can't share publicly. Maybe I can make a point of exploring that feature and see what I can find out that I can share.
I absolutely love this. So much cultural richness in a tiny seal! Through your words and your beautiful painting I was transported to an ecstatic celebration complete with a ritual dance that sounds like bells. Where divine visions are shared between women. This reminds me of the freedom and joy of practicing witchcraft outdoors (which is something I seldom get to do). Lovely post!
Thank you so much!
Love this article and your art! So beautiful and I just find the color palette so gorgeous and juicy. Thanks for sharing and offering up the idea these images help us continue this "living tradition" - the first certainly looks like an ecstatic dance ritual to me. Let's all dance and connect!
Yes! We are sacred dancers! This was the first work in this series, and I was trying to give the feeling of the gold from the ring. I feel like what I ended up with is more like deep sunshine.
Amazing!
Thanks!
Very interesting and beautiful! I'm not sure what the dotted lines are, but I gather they are a common feature in shamanic trance journeys. Depictions of them have been found in shamanic paintings all over the world, ie in different shamanic cultures. They seem to appear in visions. I wonder what they represent?
Do you mean the black dotted lines around the figures' heads? That's their hair, depicted in a stylized fashion. But now that you mention those other dotted lines, it makes me wonder if the Minoan artists were doing a sort of double entendre here, with the hair also representing whatever those dotted lines represent in shamanic art. I have some personal experience with something similar in my own spirit work, but unfortunately it's in a context that I can't share publicly. Maybe I can make a point of exploring that feature and see what I can find out that I can share.
That would be great.
Thrilled to see you posting your sacred art here and the ancient inspiration for it is gorgeous!
Thank you! You were the inspiration for me to start this series!