06/02/2024
One week and one day ago was the one year anniversary of my dog's soul leaving his body and crossing the silver river. I will always have a piece missing from my heart where he once lived, although he will always remain a part of me simultaneously. Life is full of contradictions and in itself is a kind of "polar unity", as Alex Grey would put it. Perhaps I'm just pontificating to quell the grief. Last year in July I made this painting (shown in the first 2 slides) of my little Danny to pay homage to him, which is titled: ๐๐ค๐ณ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ง๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ต. Death is symbolized by Uktena, the untamed chaos dragon of Aniyunwiya mythology. My dog's name Daniel has Hebrew origin meaning, "judge", so he is called the Shofet in this piece. There is also another new painting (shown in the last slide with the whole project so far) titled: ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ญ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ต ๐๐ข๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ & ๐๐ฃ๐ด๐ฐ๐ญ๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ. The latter was in part inspired by recurring dreams and psychedelic visions depicting my soul as a wildcat and in part inspired by a local stray cat who, as of 2022, has been a new friend of mine who frequently comes to my apartment for a few hours at a time to eat food and sleep, before going back outside at night to chase insects, smaller animals, and female cats to mate and make more kittens with. The entire, ongoing and indefinite project itself currently has the working title: ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต. This may end up being the official title as well, representative of how the journey through life and the process of individuation can be a kind of untying of a knot outside and inside the context of a macrocosmic / microcosmic, theatrical drama. Perhaps I'm pontificating again. Oh, well. In closing, I wish everyone a wonderful pride month. I would like to do something to celebrate it as someone who is a part indigenous, neuroatypical, enby hominid. Maybe I'll think of something soon.