Above is ‘The Mysterious Seven Macaw’, 35cm x 50cm, Single Edition Digital Print on Cotton Satin, 2007. A digital piece exploring the K’ichee Mayan conception of what happened at the last World Age Change, as narrated in the Popol Vuh.
This sounds like an unbelievably negative statement, but it’s not. It’s a critique of the state of play in our current evolution as a culture, as individuals and in the wider scheme of things. The New Age is in danger of being stillborn, of dying before it has ever gotten off the ground, of being destroyed before its time.
I have just found a sublime essay entitled ' The Paranoid Style in American Politics' which examines in some detail the influence of conspiracy theory and paranoia in American politics, coming to conclusions which have, I feel, a powerful implication for us all as people, not just in the sphere of politics, as the paranoid style is increasingly finding its way into spiritual expressions in our mod
In 2005, I wrote an essay called 'The House Of The Sky' which explored flood myths and the effects of precession and other long-term heavenly movements upon human archetypes, evolution and consciousness.
A continuation of the work begun in 'Honey For The Mistress Of The Labyrinth', these six small pieces expoore Minoan Cretan ideas of Woman as the trigger for an embodied epiphany experience. The idea behind these images is quite subtle, and at first sounds horribly conceptual, but it is a kind of new way of seeing.
No, more properly a really *old* way of seeing...
Above is a digital image called 'The Lady', 2006, 30cm x 42cm by myself, as part of my ongoing ::salviaspace:: series of art works...
1. She is gentle. If you give her respect and take your time she will induct you pleasantly into a brilliant and shining world of intent which is equally jarringly shamanic, reassuringly and softly healing, oddly abstract and very earthy.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders