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This drawing is inspired by a visit to a famous grotto near Ghent
where people still offer candles and prayers.
I have a deep respect and love for this tradition.
The grotto is covered with earth and tall trees grow on top of it.
In my drawing a woman - a saint - is sleeping in one of the trees.
I can imagine she lives there, a tree-renunciate.
And there is a small dark figure standing in the rain
a white bird on the hand
near to a small doorway leading into the grotto.
This beautiful autumn evening we made a walk through a local beguinage
founded in the early 13th century, it has so many hidden places,
where we love to roam ... and see ...
time and stillness and overflowing life everywhere.
One cannot understand how such a small spot can embrace it all.
where we love to roam ... and see ...
time and stillness and overflowing life everywhere.
One cannot understand how such a small spot can embrace it all.
How beautiful, how wonderful! Everywhere this Spiritual Grey combined with spiritual Green and incarnative holy figures! Great post!
ReplyDeleteThe password for me here is now:
"excebal" - this means EXTRANO!
"Incarnative" is a word my art-friend Christian used sometimes...
This drawing, that place, both are so beautiful, Barbara! Too much for words.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, beautiful drawings...
ReplyDeleteAnd, intriguing - last night I was drawing a bit and found myself drawing a grotto under a huge tree with hooded women walking around and arched tunnels leading off under the roots. The place in my drawings is so much like the place in yours... I often draw women in roots, but this one had some stone architecture, which was new. Maybe I was there with you....
Dori and Jodi, thank you for finding beauty here.
ReplyDeleteValerianna, I hope in a next post you will show the drawing, please :-) Often when I am drawing I see scenes from dreams I had forgotten or even dreams I never remembered before. When we draw our connections are more subtle and deeper and reaching out further.
"it has so many hidden places, where we love to roam ... and see ..."
ReplyDeleteYour drawings are very much like this.
I agree, It is too much for words. I shall try.....Lovely, soulful, heavenly, divine, sublime, sacred.
Yes, absolutely... what you say about drawing.
ReplyDeleteBless you, Ramona
ReplyDeletePlease , Stille Linde, what is a "tree-renunciate"??
ReplyDeleteDori, a tree-renunciate is someone who has abandoned ordinary life to live a spiritual or monastic life, and who lives in a tree. It is my word and it exists in my drawing, and I'm sure there must be "tree-renunciates" in India or other places where people still are really familiar with spiritual life.
ReplyDeleteLovely, Stille Linde! Tree-renunciate....I can imagine, there are more tree-renunciates than we can see at the first view. I can imagine, there are also "psychological tree-renunciates", that means, their soul lives somehow in the soul of a tree.
ReplyDeleteToday I read a nice Irish sentence:
"God sleeps in the stones, he dreams in the plants, he awakes in the animals and he acts by the humans."
Dori, thank you for all the beauty you bring here tonight. This is a sentence to remember, daily, in all our big and small precious experiences with stones and plants and animals and humans. Brilliant !!!
ReplyDeleteYour Blog is so beautiful, like an old treasure, old and new! Compliment!
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