Great Grandfather Spirit
by FeatherStone Studio Julie A Miller
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11.000 x 14.000 inches
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Title
Great Grandfather Spirit
Artist
FeatherStone Studio Julie A Miller
Medium
Painting - Watercolor Ink
Description
“Great Grandfather Spirit...” ...columbus day memories
the words came out slowly
as if I was discovering them for the first time,
still feeling like I was suspended between dreamtime, and waking..
having to face the raw edges of these visions,
of loss, hurt, displacements, death and living,
it was a wound that would not heal,
a wanting to not move or write or paint this blank canvas,
not wanting to lose anymore time or people to this lost history,
to just curl up and close myself off from these images filled with sorrow and pain...
that carried me on the current of words and images,
into the strand of life they lead me to,
feeding the memories and visions while draining their existence,
boxed and prisoned in these lifeless reservations,
past masses of land,desert, canyons, and riverbeds,
that stretched between them and their “new home”,
and as I looked through their eyes as mine,
I could feel their anguish so acutely as if I was being pulled inside them,
far deeper than any dreamtime had taken me,
i fought to stay separated from their pain, it was already becoming mine,
as if all the losses I had endured had merely been a taste of what to come.
stepping away from the finished painting,
the chill of the wind shifted through me as if my body had lost all the substance,
the image’s before me, painted and voiced onto canvas,
images of Elders, Dancers, children picking sweetgrass,
did not belong here,
they belonged in my Father’s childhood, my Grandfather’s and Great Grandfather’s,
in another time when they had walked these deserts,
these rocky cliffs and fields of sweetgrass, dust billowing around them,
surrounded by a knowing, a feeling of death and despair,
of a People...of a way of life,
that centered and circled all life...honoring each for their own givings,
to carry these stories, told on the current of winds, and into the air,
to be remembered...
and all i wanted was for all the dreams,
these strands of past memories and lives to continue and merge,
so that I would not lose anyone again, to shift into focus,
the “Real Columbus Day Memories”,
of Great Grandfather Spirit, for myself, for my children and theirs,
to hold them and gather them in a Circle of life, wrapping them in a kinship,
and being proud for who we were and still are..
to honor each day , to walk slowly and listen... to the slow pulse of...Life
...we still Remain.
julie.a.miller
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June 30th, 2017
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