Tuesday 26 September 2017

Softly and lightly

Daily Draw: Goddess Knowledge Cards, Demeter

Susan Seddon Boulet's use of colour and the way she creates illumination and ethereal effects with the lightest and finest of strokes has me gripped. Perhaps these cards are more for meditation than blogging as a I feel my words (and camera) can't do them justice.

Anais Nin has beautifully described her work: 

'these figures are out of our dreams, those which flee from us upon wakening, those which are dispersed like dew at dawn, those which fall apart between our fingers like dust roses. 

Susan has a more muted step, or perhaps she is invisible...more soft-voiced, soft-gestured, as the images do not escape from her. She can return from her voyages with intact descriptions...from places never visited by us but which we remember' 

This Greek mother Goddess Demeter gave the gift of agriculture. The message I take is to cultivate a softer voiced, lighter footed way of being in the world. 


8 comments:

  1. Makes me think of giving without fanfare, simply because it is the right thing to do. I am trying desperately not to go in search of her decks! :D

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    1. which is what really great artists do. Contrasts a lot with modern day practices of tweeting your lunch...I got this deck for 5 pounds but feel I've underpaid....

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  2. She depicts a goddess more as fluid energetic being than as a kind of super woman. Love her art style

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  3. If suddenly all we had was agriculture, which seems entirely possible, Demeter would rocket to the top ten, with a bullet as the old DJ's used to say

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