What The Fire Said: The Eternal Mother

What The Fire Said

What The Fire Said is the portal for my own art and writing. It is necessarily a work in progress, and you are welcome to return anytime to see what has been added here.

In my header you will see both contemporary calibration dials and centuries-old symbols used in the practice of alchemy. My art tends to operate at the interface between such extremes: between our shared distant past and an unknown far future, between the realities of history and the at-times greater realities that lie over the threshold in the world of myth. At these extremes science and magic, myth and history turn into each other, become indistinguishable from each other – as in the far future they well might. ~ Hawkwood (David Bergen)

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Hawkwood (David Bergen)

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She has many names in many histories. She is young and full of hope for the future. She is as old as the earth, and has seen all things that have happened and that are still to come. Her likenesses in clay have been discovered in the earth of Mesopotamia, in ancient Canaan, and in a Europe so distant in time that we must count it in thousands of millennia. Some of her names we know: Astarte, Inanna, Eileithyia and more. Others even more ancient have been lost to us, but her likenesses, carved from stone or from mammoth ivory, endure. She is the bearer of new life, the Eternal Mother.

In her devotion to her own children, and in her giving them both the gift of their lives and their freedom to live their own, there could be no more appropriate model for my painting than my own wife, Emma. My painting is to honour her and all mothers.

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