I made this drawing in november 2010, one year ago.
Today, walking through my work, I saw one who wished to express a change :
for she has grown into a woman with long hair and a radiating heart.
Now three women with long dark hair make this drawing move and spiral.
Tell me their story, if you can ... I'm curious and waiting.
First, I love this drawing.
ReplyDeleteThe birds are scattered like the seeds they are searching.
The woman feeding them represents youth and playfulness, a younger self of the woman she is connected to, who is now leading a child.
The woman with the radiant heart is wisdom and love. All want to know her.
The figure in front who is watching, is awareness.
One year ago the figure was like a light shape, like a ghost, strange and somehow without feelings or trying to hide the feelings behind a cloth, but longing for love and contact, this is symbolized by the three hands. Now the figure got hair and blood and a heart. It is a completely NEW figure with a completely new mission and personality. Ramona is right: All want to love her,-- because SHE loves all.
ReplyDeleteThe tree-rings in the back-ground are the years and the circle of seasons.The "twins" inside of the figure in the back-ground mean two different feelings, for example happiness and sadness.
The feeding-the bird-figure is lying, that means not active but patiently waiting, so the birds can approach.
The child on the hand of the 4th figure is either watching the birds or is looking to the viewer.
I like the meaning "awareness" (Ramona)of the figure in the front.
3 women, these are three friends, and everyone is (will be) all three women.
I can't tell you the story, but I can tell you the feeling of it... very good indeed! Such a calm, happy feeling fills me as I look at it.
ReplyDeleteI keep coming back to this drawing - wanting to tell you its story for me - but realizing today that there are so many stories imbedded in here that to tell just one would hold freeze it in a way that doesn't feel right. I move from trees to sacred pool to birds to people gathered and flowing in spiraling movement throughout. I pause and feel my heart open, entraining with the three-handed woman with hand on heart. She is powerful for me. Then, there is the watcher.....
ReplyDeleteBut I should add this every time to my posts "Tell me their story, if you can ..." Thank you so much for telling what you see !! I love this :D
ReplyDeleteRamona, I'm happy to read you see youth and playfulness in the woman feeding the birds "scattered like seeds"
Dori, you're a wonderfully gifted reader of images, thank you, dear, for all this!
Jodi, this image keeps fascinating me, and what you tell me about the calm happy feeling pleases me a lot, I had no idea about the kind of feeling other people might get from the drawing.
Valerianna, thank you for coming back. I believe every image that is strong enough will always break through all the stories. I'd love to hear you telling stories :D but now you lead us into a dance ...
I tell stories while beating my drum... and I sing songs that seem sort of ancient, that fit in the story... its story telling time now and I'm beginning to
ReplyDelete"hear" them in the wind. Its time to start speaking and see what there is to tell. I think the stories are like drawing with my voice - I follow the story's lead like I follow a drawing, not knowing where I will go or where I will end up - that's where the magic is, I learn so much this way, just as I did this morning when I needed to draw my emotions to ground me for the day... it worked.
I love your drawing stories... they come from the same seed.