Celebrating--my 100th blog post today!
I thank you, for visiting, stopping in and sharing my thoughts and yours--nearly 30,000 times, and from so many countries!
A virtual toast--to you!
Cheers!
Gran Bwa is a lwa that helps you connect to ancestral roots or the spiritual home of Vodou. A friend of mine, who is an expert on Haitian Vodou, who has spent a lot of time in Haiti with the artists there, told me I had painted Gran Bwa when I made this spontaneous work out of walnut ink and sumi-ink on handmade paper. I had considered this painting a self-portrait. She now holds this piece in her private collection: Quite a few people are afraid of Vodou but it is an awe-inspiring tradition of bringing together plant energy with divinity, spiritual and personal energy. My friend who is very involved with Vodou, especially the art that surrounds it, is from European ancestry. She is light in spirit and bubbly, with a close relationship to nature and her garden. Vodou affirms the relationships between cycles of life, trees of knowledge and spirit. The Vodou vision of lwa , understands them as the intelligence of energy present in humans, nature and thoughts. Mysteries ca
Congratulations on your 100th blog post. I celebrated mine last year. It is quite an amazing feat. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Chrys! Good thing we don't sit around counting every post but instead just blog or we'd never get to 100 posts, don't you think?
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