Singing in a spiraling landscape
One holds the message as a treasure in her heart
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| Singing evoking blessing - drypoint print - click to enlarge |
Here the copper plate has been inked and wiped, ready to be printed.
drawing with the needle
These are the first proofs of this plate, the journey of the spiraling songs ain't over yet :-)
This is a wonderful work, Stille Linde! The 2 persons really are swinging together with the environment. They both look happy, dreamy and confident. I like these faces very much. The face of the second person I love really very very much.
ReplyDeleteThe artist's hands are blessed.
Thank you, Dori, I've been so deep in this drawing I had forgotten that things like blogger exist and now I feel a bit surprised there's a Dori responding :-)
ReplyDeleteHA! Singing and spirals - subjects quite dear to my heart!. When I recorded in the cave, we would light it with just small candles. The flickering would light up the huge stone columns and I would see shapes - spirals and landscapes. Mostly, though, I would start to see endless faces forming in the flickering light - bears and owls and grandmothers and all kinds of spirits. I would feel I was singing them alive, or singing that they would be revealed. This is really beautiful and so reminds me of my experience.
ReplyDeleteAnd their breath was singing you alive, Valerianna. Surely some of your singing and spiraling has inspired me here.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, "their breath was singing your alive", how very true! I love how our worlds knit together though we've never even shared a cup of tea.... isn't it remarkable? It would be lovely, though, to sit someday and share a warm fire and tea, or the night sky full of stars....
ReplyDeleteThis kind of forgetting is the best!
ReplyDeleteThe second person was maybe in the mud, because her arms are dark of mud. So I think she found the treasure in the field, like the man, who found a treasure in the field and sold everything he had and bought the field. I always felt today with this drawing. It is so wonderful!
It looks so open, like the sky is huge or they are on a mountain top... everything seems so joyful. Beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteIt would be lovely, Valerianna, to have this simple sharing of fire and hot water and night sky :))
ReplyDeleteDori thank you for this very interesting idea about mud and buried treasures. Her arms just needed to be dark, and I had not yet started thinking "why?"
Jodi, it is such a good discovery for me to make intaglio prints that are open and joyful :-)