Sunrise for Trip North

Sunrise for Trip North                  2011                           ©Greg Patch

Morning Snow

Morning Snow                                                        @Greg Patch

Loons and a Cold Sea Sunrise

Loons and Cold Sea Sun x 2            ©Greg Patch 2010

Photo Diptych

Chilly Morning w/Sun

 

      Chilly Morning w/Sun                            ©Greg Patch


Am a member of the online Artist Marketing Resources group the conversation was on how we became and put ourselves out being an artist. This was my response...
"I was the kid in school who the teacher asked to help them draw the maps on the blackboard. It was just something I did. I get butterflies in my stomach every time just before I show. I try to look at it as a positive excitement experience. Sometimes I get the same butterflies just before I go to work on a piece before me. I'll put some music on and the rhythm helps disperse the butterflies. Looking back at it I think realizing that it is not just one leap, but, a series of leaps and bounds, and plateaus [and perilous caverns] helps me to keep things in perspective. And cherishing that I still have a long way to go helps to keep it alive..."


In another conversation in the group this quote from Oscar Wilde; "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." is appropriate here.

SunRise

                 SunRise                                               ©Greg Patch 2010 

Webh morning

Sun rose this morning through Ocean's mist reminding me with dewed webh (the Proto Indo European "root" of web) and gentle waves of colors that all are related/connected.

Ocean Sunrise Ankh and Lingam

I find this most appealing to the coming season, Spring.


from National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/ancient/artifacts-symbols.html

"The ankh is a symbol of life often shown in the hands of Egyptian gods or pharaohs. The gods are sometimes depicted giving the ankh, and thus giving life, to a human.

The origins of this widespread symbol are much disputed. Whatever its original symbolic meaning (theories range from a sandal loop to a sunrise) the ankh was widely adopted first by Egyptian religions and later by early Christians for whom it linked the cross with eternal life."

My personal preference would be that its meaning comes from the sunrise over water. Here is my reasoning. Man was drawing what he observed around him before he wore shoes, much like our cousin the ape. Conceptually, the symbolism of it relating to the sandal is a bit contrived. This idea does not relate to nature as our source for most of our symbolisms. Visually the sandal really doesn't look anything like an Ankh. The dots don't connect. Typically the Ankh is associated with "life". We realize that the water and the sun (light) are the great sources of life. Water is teeming with a major food source for us. Birth, delivering from the womb protectively within the water that streams forth as the "water breaks". Another interpretation of its symbolistic origins is associated with the lingum, or penis. This also would imply life as it sourcing the seed of life, also transmitted in the seminal fluid, a body of water.  The Sanskrit word for the male sexual organ is Lingam and is loosely translated as "Wand of Light."