Monday, January 30, 2006

Enfolded Luminosity: Pulsing Hea(r)t, eye of Ra

A reading, a response, an interweaving, a myth-making story of the artwork by a young woman who goes by the blog name of BoureeMusique. If anyone else has a reading, I'll post it too. Many thanks!

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How many times can a woman post an image? It's renamed, from "Willow Women," to, "Pulsing Hea(r)t, eye of Ra." I would read that, pulsing heat/heart, eye of Ra. Why? They clearly don't look like willow women anymore- they were so stretched I thought of them as mirages, as desert dwellers (in the surreal mind it doesn't matter if willows and deserts don't go together). But that pulsing sunset, the way it throbs through them, the desert, Egypt, the Nile, Ra, ah! But Hathor, the queen who wears the sun with two horns- and who is most likely the more ancient goddess of light (before Ra, who came before Horus). It's all bound in up there. I wonder what myth the figures in this painted drawing belong to? I wonder if I can make one up, or if you can?

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I will play with it - from left to right, they can be Gwynhwyfar, Morgaine, and Igraine. The Goddess surrounds and envelops them, is the vibrant sun and blood color. Gwynhwyfar is on the left, half-recognizing the Goddess's call but running from it. All she wants is the true love of a man she should have had. Had her marriage been different, life would be less painful for all of Camelot. Igraine is on the right, held by the Goddess mostly complacently. She stands motionless and in a dream-like state, thinking of her Uther. Morgaine is in the middle, her face ethereal because at times she truly embodies the Goddess. She strides - proud but more than that - confident. She sees bitter times, but the sun, the power, is always at her center, because she is ever true. BoureeMusique

4 comments:

  1. Thank you so much, Ken. :)

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  2. I agree with ken; kind of. It's what the image elicits in the viewer that ultimately describes the subject and the experience. Words...sigh. Even a word like "ineffable," which might very well describe your picture, doesn't tell us how to "feel" the word, or the picture. For me it's all in the seeing. A great philosopher once said " What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence." But...we try anyway don't we. Look at all these words I'm using to try and say the obvious! Which is...

    BTW: The philospher was Ludwig Wittgenstein. The quote is from his "Tractatus," which even he later had to refute in part because he still couldn't find the words to express even that. Hmmmm. Let's see...

    Brenda! Look where you have taken me with your art! Yikes! Quite simply it's...

    Ok. I'll stay with ineffable! And...Mysterious!

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  3. lhombre, you have me giggling! Really! I wouldn't think it's quite your style, but I'm intrigued with the illustrative quality, meaning referring to some sort of mythic tale, even if it seems rather Fin De Siecle. A century late? What does it matter? Not at all, Dear Watson. xo

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  4. But, hmmmn, fin de siecle has found its way into certain branches of feminist art that proposes to recreate our myths, as well as in fantasy art, both of which are not academic but of the world of popular culture. Off-shoots, undercurrents, clippings and grafts, this style, its roots surely in the symbolist movement, blooming wildly in the garden of art almost undetected.

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