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Ivette

 

2011 Ivette Artwork

"Like the morning sun you come and like the wind you go"

The dual nature of "Like the morning sun you come and like the wind you go" was a fitting allegory for the dawn-dusk  scenario in this year's graphic portraying Jerry in the radiant morning sun shading the clouds with pink and orange and with the moon softly lighting the sky at the end of the day. The blue fairy signifying movement was stirred by memories of dragon flies buzzing around in the pond last summer adding swatches of brilliant blues to the frolicking bliss.  "Likes the wind she goes."

Clouds Image

I was blown away, once again when I noticed a lightning bolt shape suggesting itself on the paper. There it was, making perfect sense, illustrating the polarity and movement of the quote. All I did was define the shape's edges more clearly and let it be in the middle, representing the zone of change and transformation.*

The dragon cloud was inspired by a real cloud I saw a while ago. A beautiful prism cloud, resembling a  fluffy feathery rainbow column, reaching across the sky in the shape of a dragon. It reminded me of the ancient Mayan and Aztec prophecies about signs appearing in the sky, foretelling the return of Quetzalcoatl, Lord of the Dawn, Beneath the Moon and Under the Sun* as rainbow clouds in the shape of the Plumed Serpent. It was so stunning I took a picture and forgot all about it until now.  The Plumed Serpent was strongly associated with the morning and evening star, the planet Venus.* I'm including the picture as proof that I'm not making it all up.

Whether these may be recollections from a distant past, true visions and mystic revelations or not is not clear to me. It may be only fantasy, but like the music.."it's an obsession but it's pleasing."

The good painter is wise, god is in his heart
He (she?) converses with his own heart.
He puts divinity into things.

   __ Nahuatl saying.*

* Ideas and quotes borrowed from  The Mayan Factor by José Argüelles

 

 

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