A Ceremony of Creating From the Creation of Life
From the Series
Messages Between Blue and Red
Before Red and Blue Were Divided
They were together as Earth and Spirit
Red and Blue were one
Before they divided
and came apart
and became
Blue Roads Answering Prayers
and
Red Roads Protection
And they needed each other
Red needed the protection that Blue gave Red
and Blue needed to help Red on Red's Earth walk
How the story manifests after Creation
is part Instinctual, part Intuitiveness and part Trust in self
I believe in order to see, rather then see in order to believe, as Fool's Crow would say
It becomes Ceremony when something physical occurs to manifest a new understanding
A new truth in ritual
It becomes Sacred with prayer
The life of the tree
and the knots
takes on a new life
when what they grew is redrawn by my hand with deep respect and
empowering their life with a voice by acknowledging their spirit
their extensions of life, their branches that reach for light
and from where their branches sprouted, become children of experiences
like our life which grows off of us
our children
our creations
our experiences
they are our ceremony of life
that we take for granted every single day
we get up doing over and over again complaining.
And so
This knot was a prayer for our youth
becomes this knot by extension of what I see subconsciously
which is looking down on Ancestor's head for he is answering that prayer
and becomes the image on the lower right reinterpreted
Blue Roads Answering Prayers, Acrylic on Fir, 24" x 19" Click on link for poem
Looking straight onto Eagle
Left Blue eye represents night, setting sun to the West
Right is Yellow represents day, morning sun to the East
Eagle carries our prayers to the Creator
Creator sends our ancestors to help us on our Red road Earth walk
Footsteps mark their coming from the North to South
on their Blue Road Spirit Walk
We are looking overtop of the Ancestors heads
They carry the Prayers, Eagle Brought which I sent
They are heading South to Earth to bring Answers
Their heads hold the prayers and walking like the Grand Entry Back to Earth
The Prayer on the right represents our Youth and saving their lives surrounded by the blue sky of hope
The knot or prayer on the left Ancestors head represents, the spirit connection
needed for people living on Earth, reaching in two directions for connection
representative of being rooted on Earth but reaching for Spirit
And it is redrawn in Eagles mouth on the lower left in the circle of blue spirit surrounded
as he holds the messages of prayers from us, from me
that I recreated from what grew in the earth and branched to the heavens
It is a Ceremonial Prayer for our Indigenous Youth to have hope to live
and for our Earth Humans to have Spirituality in their lives again.
Ceremoniously dividing the Red from the Blue
The Earth from the Spirit
And then by re-creating Creation with what grew interpreted from my subconscious
I am bringing a ceremonial honouring to its life in the form of a prayer.
The painting represents Ancestors walking down the Blue Road
meeting our prayers
And so here it is before it is painted and you can see what I saw
and it did connect to Red Roads as you can see the conjoins reaching
Red Road Protection was the next one part of the same wood in its raw state:
And it became this one, below
And Each Knot carried special meaning for Protection for MotherEarth,
for the Dual Sides of Life that bring day and night, the old and the young and
the connection needed for wholeness. Protection for the Indigenous Culture
and Protection of the Creators who manifest their work into the Universe
Below represents Mother Earth raw (centre), painted (left) and recreated (right)
Recreating what mother earth created in a knot feels like I am hounouring her.
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This knot carried special meaning as it represented Mother Earth on Turtle back, she represents the rooted connection to the Earth and to Spirit.
It started as the one in the middle, which is the painted one on the right
Reflected in her are all the seasons, the day and night and the Stars overhead, she is connected to the Universe
And the one on the Right is the one I've recreated her creation, turning in the Universe, you can see it in her roots and her feet
that she is both rooted of the Earth and of the Universe. Her head was existing as a knot and I recreated her body as an expression to what she created in the knot central
Here is a closeup of Mother Earth's Head in the Clasp of Eagle talon
Inside her Head she retains the Seed of life and the four roots
It is within the blue of sky and spirit
within the circle of white universe
within the gold circle of sun
and connected to her hair as it grows
Under Eagles wing is a Shield
Protected both by Eagle and as a Sheild
It represents The Elder Carrying Tradition to the Young
She is situated in the Centre of all the Directions
and she is connected to the North because of her age.
This knot represents protection of our Culture within the hoop, the Hoop Dancer
Dances for the Earth within the Protection of Shield
Here he is redrawn within the hoops of life out into the Universe
Continuing Culture and Art
