Myth & Magick: The Rose and Dragon
Completed September 2010.
12"x9"; pen&ink on watercolor paper.
Students of the occult will probably recognize many of these symbols; the short version for the rest of you is that it's kind of a symbolic map of reality, showing the growth of life from the nothingness of space, to the stars, to the s un and the sea, out of which grow living things stretching back out to the stars. The Ouroboros (a dragon or serpent eating its own tail), the Rose, the Cross, are all magical symbols that could have (and have had) books written about them. Taken together, it's a complex symbol that means a lot to me, but I'm not sure I can put it into words well. Hey, that's why we have symbols in the first place - to communicate the incommunicable.
Read my blog post about this piece.
Original is for sale. Contact the artist for more information.
12"x9"; pen&ink on watercolor paper.
Students of the occult will probably recognize many of these symbols; the short version for the rest of you is that it's kind of a symbolic map of reality, showing the growth of life from the nothingness of space, to the stars, to the s un and the sea, out of which grow living things stretching back out to the stars. The Ouroboros (a dragon or serpent eating its own tail), the Rose, the Cross, are all magical symbols that could have (and have had) books written about them. Taken together, it's a complex symbol that means a lot to me, but I'm not sure I can put it into words well. Hey, that's why we have symbols in the first place - to communicate the incommunicable.
Read my blog post about this piece.
Original is for sale. Contact the artist for more information.