Sunday, October 16, 2011

Daylight and Darkness - Horse Painting

"Daylight and Darkness"
image size 16"x12" - acrylic

Acrylic number 4... Eagle feathers keep appearing in the shapes of paint that I create with my hands. 

"The creature most loved by the Great Spirit was the eagle, for he tells the story of life.... Through his eyes, he sees pleasant and unpleasant scenes, through his nostrils he smells good and bad odors, with his ears he hears joyful news and words that make him sad...."

"The eagle feather is divided into two parts, part light, and part dark. This represents daylight and darkness, summer and winter, peace and war, and life and death. So that you may remember what I have told you, look well on the eagle, for his feathers, too, tell the story of life."

from A Lumbee Legend. 

2 comments:

  1. There are the dark and light, a good phrase, there are peace and war, or go dark and rose the light :)

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  2. Carol, saw that you were following my bog so thought I would check out yours, great work, love horses so I see do you. Good job!

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