The Knowing - Peter Muraay Djeripi Mulcahy
The Knowing
With sensitivity comes greater understanding, from greater understanding comes finer clarity. Only with a timeless patience, a connective sensitivity and a deeper willingness to understand and see the relevance of all creation come the knowing.
This painting shows a people who were connected to their mother while in the embrace of their father.
Elders are our embers
This beautiful symbolic painting is deep in its explanations of the complex culture that spawned it. Loving, nurturing, respectful and whole are all words that best describe this piece and the culture it portrays.
Each part of a whole
A fine detailed painting with incredible relevance for today. This work is another in Peters own indigenous knotting series. This artwork tells of the story of the core beliefs in “Indigenous Australia”. Why respect was at the heart of every thought and decision
What Baayama has entrusted to you I have no right to disrupt, disturb or disrespect.
Mainly Spirit
We must continue to remind ourselves that we are spirit first, that we are a part of the all. Our old people knew it and lived it.
They really understood life as a continuation, there’s no gaps in time and there’s no gaps in creation. There’s just the one. In both space and time, we share the same moment and place with all before us.
We do well to know they are with us, so we remember our respect for them, the land and each other.
The physical world is simply a shadow covering our spirit.....
We are strong when we know this.
We are strong when we know this.
Ancestors
This vision is two spirit ancestors watching over me. They circle me, keeping me true to what I know and what is expected of me. They came as eagles to represent strength and invoke a feeling of awe. Their effortless flight teaches us of life and how when we allow ourselves to be one with spirit, the flow of life is continual and without effort.
My ancestors allow me to know that I am on tract and not alone. Someone to look up to and live up to. We are never alone and that is our strength.
Birth of the Butterflies
A truly beautiful story depicting the true philosophical nature of our Indigenous people. In the time when death did not exist, creation was suddenly forced to consider it for the first time. After turning to their leaders, clever ones and most wise. The answers to the mystery of life, death and reincarnation were carried on the wings of the lowly insects, Birth of the Butterflies.
All artwork and stories from: www.aboriginalaustralianart.com
All artwork and stories from: www.aboriginalaustralianart.com
Chuck Close Daguerreotype Portraits
A good portrait should reveal answers about the person, yet leave enough room for more questions. In some cases, the old ways become exciting methods for producing refreshing images and themes. A good example of this is Chuck Close's daguerreotype portrait of Kara Walker.
Chuck Close is one of the most prominent portrait artists of this generation. He is famed for his extremely large canvas paintings of people's faces, using varying grid and pixel methods to create smaller artworks in the larger portrait. Despite having prospagnosia (face blindness) and having suffered a seizure which left his arms and legs weakened, he continues to produce artworks on the same scale. Over the last decade, he has experimented with different forms of photography, with most of his famous photographs done with the daguerreotype process.
This particular portrait is a collaboration between Close and his artist friend Kara Walker, known for her work dealing with race, sexuality and identity. Walker poses in profile and is captured in silhouette, a more common form of portraiture in the 19th century. Close used daguerreotype photography, of the earliest photographic processes over a century old which involves long preparation, exposure and developing times.
The end result of these artists experimenting with old processes is a beautifully haunting profile portrait in the shadows, the outline of Walker's shoulders and head clearly visible, with the bare minimum amount of light showing enough detail on her face. For this 2007 portrait, Close was awarded the 2nd prize in the Portraits category of the World Press Photo.
For more on Chuck Close, check out this previous entry on him and his not so typical daguerreotypes. Time magazine has a good profile on Kara Walker. To find out more about the daguerreotype process, have a look at Louis Daguerre, the father of photography.
return to yourself
'If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now. And when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.'
Masaru Emoto
you are not a prisoner
'Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner.
You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.'
Haruki Murakami
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| Pelican Wing. Image: Julia Inglis |
Sacred Familiar's New Nest in Sherbrooke Forest
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| New nest - new home |
Dear friends, we are so happy to announce that we have found the new nest for Sacred Familiar in the magical Sherbrooke Forest. So many beautiful spaces for sharing ceremony and creativity. After a wee break we will be opening the doors of our forest dwelling in early February 2013 to all who wish to journey with the Wild Swan. We will be offering many new workshops and sessions including Shamanic Animal Journeys with Tony. In the meantime we will be immersing in rest and play - so many new feelings and ideas are birthing with each day.
We wish you all a wonderful crossing of the glittering threshold that is 2013.
See you soon in the green worlde,
Love, Julia and Tony xx
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| Tony standing outside our house with some tall friends |
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| Directly across the road are the glorious Alfred Nicholas Gardens a wonderful place for a contemplative walk after your sessions x |
when we no longer know what to do
It may be that when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work
and when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
Wendell Berry
Karin Dreijer Andersson - Living the Mythic
Visionary Art - Martina Hoffman
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| Curandera - Martina Hoffman |
To create is synonymous to breathing for most artists.If I don't create, I slowly loose my center and energy. Generally speaking it seems less important what kind of a creative process I'm involved in, just as long as I am creating. And what matters to me most here, is how the creative process makes me feel. It fills me with excitement, lets me get in touch with my innermost being and gives me a sense of deep satisfaction and joy. Creating has always been the essential and most important part of my life, and I perceive the creative process as a way of nourishing my soul. Another great perk is the facility of getting in touch with our innermost fears and shadows through our creations. In essence making honest art means facing ourselves at the deepest levels and using this process as a healing tool for deep transformation.
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| DNA Spirit
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