Youtube has meant a lot to me. I'm on the autistic spectrum (just found that out, sixty years late) and have somewhat singular interests and no one to really talk to about them. Now, through the magic of algorithms one interest area after another pops up and it's like potato chips.. can't eat just one. Through an interest in astrology, then channeling I found Atala Dorothy Toy, a lady who photographs nature spirits. This has been an obsession of mine since I happened on The Magic of Findhorn back in the late seventies, when you had to buy books to follow your interests. (feels like the Dark Ages) I was like the kids in Peter Pan - "I believe" For all the years since I've been interested in secret, because NO ONE else wants to talk about this. My mom moved in with me when she was in her seventies, and although I did not mention what I was doing- stuff like setting up nature sanctuaries, a place you promise to stay out of so wild things can be safe - she would report that she SAW tiny little beings, like pudgy naked children, running all over laughing and playing, and sometimes big tall pretty ones dancing. I was so envious. I never saw anything. She passed away some years back, and since I didn't get good enough descriptions from her about what she saw I couldn't make drawings, and I really felt an opportunity had been missed, that I just had no talent here. Then I saw these photos, and Atala saying not everyone sees things, some just feel. Well! I feel all the time. My place over the years has become much more peaceful, beautiful, magical feeling, like it wants to take care of you. A couple of storms of the century have been through in the last couple of years and done no damage, although one nice firewood oak was dropped out where it couldn't hurt anyone and was perfect to cut up. I resolved to take my camera and find some of these faces in nature. I didn't find any, but I took a lot of pictures of things that appealed to me, including this scene of two trees on opposite sides of the creek that are holding their roots together and shoring each other up, lots of trees on the side of the creek fall over after a big storm and take a bit of creek edge with them. These two look sort of male and female to me, not hard to see, and seem to be smiling in the middle with a bit of a froggy face. I put a metal leaf frame around it and continued the main elements, and added the swirling energies that I'm pretty sure I feel. I like this. I think I will be doing more.
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