What is it about?
Experiments in combining praxis in somatic movement arts with the 2000 year old ritual technologies from The Greek Magical Papyri, to produce highly detailed realistic pencil drawings of ancient gods. Includes wonderings about the nature of creative muse, inspiration, and what makes an artwork 'alive' and vivid even many hundreds or thousands of years later.
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Why is it important?
As I continue to deepen these practises, and others come into contact with the finished drawings, I’m seeking to discover whether there is some intangible force that comes into, that infuses and inhabits, and leaps out again from the resulting artworks?
Perspectives
I hope this article might offer an expanded way of both perceiving and approaching creative endeavours, with these considerations made extant. Invoking and courting The Muse, as artists have done for centuries, is an art form in itself.
Red K Elders
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This page is a summary of: See yourself through these hands: The moving body as a portal to spirit possession. Working with ancient ritual technologies to create portraits of spirits, gods and mythic beings, Dance Movement & Spiritualities, December 2022, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/dmas_00037_1.
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