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Above, the first animation I ever made may seem like flashy mayhem
to people who have not tried to decipher image.
I thought that I would write about a fairly normal device in the arts,
which is the impressionistic1
idea of interpreting the aura of someone, or of an event.
The image above (originally called "Juin", which is French for the
month of June ) is from what I consider to be an historic record of
someone whose life and times had been unearthed in the shape of a small
rock cat impression!
Taking a look at the flat, almost one and a half inch long cat shape
that I had found while gardening, (above, depicted
graphically, on the animation) I believed that this impression
had come from a shape made for the purpose
of "cookie-cutting" a form, and this cutter may have come from a
well-to-do womans' necklace pendant.
I watched what I could see of the relic, and saw a woman in Roman or
Greek garb.The story of her passage to the area where I had found many
relics was an amazing dicovery for me!
I saw the woman (about thirty years old, dark haired and attractive)
run out of an underground area. The forest around her was alive with
red Prairie Lilies (I still have one from the area), also rows and rows
of white lilies. She ran as fast as she could, until she came to an
area where many people had left a sign for her- a group of hand
impressions laid into kaolin clay, hardened and preserved. These were
around or next to a small water
spring.
I watched the woman take the cat pendant off her necklace, and,
kneeling, make several impressions of her personal marker, a cat form.
Then she dashed along, down a path lined thickly with lilies.
To my enormous surprise, I believed, after she met her destiny, that I
was watching a record of an event that is literally, recorded in the
New Testament of the Bible.
The woman met with a young Rabbi, David ben Miriam (Jesus), and
immediately began to cry.
My mind translates everything I can "hear" from natural rock records,
and I perceived this to be the story of the woman "who was not fit to
touch the hem of His garment" (according to the Bible).
I was amazed to see that she stood close to David and
said: "My dear friend, I would hug you, but,
at the moment, I am not suited to touch even the hem of your garment.
You see, I have suffered from a sickness, and cannot stop bleeding. I
have come all the way here to seek your assistance. Can you heal me of
it?
I watched as David took a gold device which had a glass cylinder in it,
full of an emerald colour liquid. He used this device with some type of
drip needle, and started health assistance almost immediately.
This account is a little simplified, but the sensibility of the event
that I was able to witness was not the same as what Bible students have
been obliged to read, or to believe, post-edit circa 800AD.
Priests of the period began to suspect women as being the purveyors of
illnesses like syphylis, and womens' former status as Rabbis or
Ministers had already been diminished by the professional males in the
Christian
faith,
way back in the 3rd or 4th century.
By the time the Bible was edited by St. Thomas Aquinas, items like a
friendship between Jesus and Roman aristocrats' wives got sloughed
away, in favour of the type of one-sided story that the story of the
ill woman has become to represent. Women were considered to be
secondary, and even, unclean!
I am fond of meditating upon the actual events of Old or New Testament,
and was more than delighted to see and to hear that the woman was
not a
lesser
individual, and certainly not considered to be by Jesus. She was
just being polite and clean, the very notion that has assisted Jews and Christians in their long journey
toward civilized means, and toward true, admirable survival.
My delight was in rectifying the record of not only the loving nature
of David ben Miriam (Jesus Christ) but to also feel that I had in my
possession an absolute, a
tangible record
that the Biblical records had become conveniently
mythologized into a real put-down of women, over the centuries. I had
come (like most women of the sixties) through the strenuous politic at
the heart of womens' liberation, the re-establishment of womens'
equality
in the
churches. I had studied Theology in University. Like many advanced lady
theologians, (although I was a beginner)I was intent upon renewed and
brand new concepts in Faith, not old,
stale and outdated dogma, written by celibate fanatics! Since there are
still men in the
world who would utilize the sensibility of woman as unclean by
comparison to a religious
figure, since they worship text all too pedantically, I hope
that, in giving the rock record
to an archeologist, Biblical history may undergo a type of restitutive
re-evaluation.
So, I recorded what I could see into the animated abstract above, for
brevity. I used
MSN clips of pebbles that had come from the same rail area as had the
woman, and superimposed (in the animation) simple actions that I could
see happening
in the womans' aura.
Telemetry allows a person to
have vision which can "apperceive", through handling a relic, or from
standing in an historic area. What this could be is probably a
combination of seeing through hearing, and also a
natural ability to scrutinize minutiae similarly to the function of
acrystallographers' equipment. Like a sound physicist, a telemetrist
can
see and hear everything that has happened from a pebble, literally.
It stands to reason that, if the image of the person or event is
recorded in earth, that the aura of the action is
also recorded, since Kirlian photography has proven that the aura can
be seen and recorded,
in coloured
shaping, as a chemical steam.
That print of action and intent was still there, and I hope to
fascinate and to educate through the somewhat primitive artwork above.
Each of the discs in the
art were used as auric impressions of the womans' actions. I used the
pebbles and the cat shape as clues, or identifying features.
I hope that you will allow for creative license in your objective
perception of the motion and colour of the simple circles and shapes.
This amounts to a small mission of mine, in favour of better quality
communication between doctrines, and also toward the
clarification of history,in the hope of bettering the issues of
equality of the sexes.
2 entries found for impressionism.
Main Entry: im·pres·sion·ism
Pronunciation: im-'pre-sh&-"ni-z&m
Function: noun
1. often capitalized : a theory or practice in painting especially among French painters of about 1870 of depicting the natural appearances of objects by means of dabs or strokes of primary unmixed colors in order to simulate actual reflected light
2. (a) : the depiction (as in literature) of scene, emotion, or character by details intended to achieve a vividness or effectiveness more by evoking subjective and sensory impressions than by recreating an objective reality. (b) : a style of musical composition designed to create subtle moods and impressions
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