08/24/2016
New work from Amanda Sage
Dear world... I have something very special to share with you. My most recent feat of dancing with the story of humanity past and present, bundled into a prayer for our collective future comes in form as the 'Vitruvian HUman'. Based on the drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, created in 1490, it is a map of our perfection. This rendition is not a man or a woman, it is both... the marriage of opposites as we realign our separation from each other and our environment.
This painting was initiated by my dear friends Lucian & Lea Tarnowski in light of the theme of this years Burning Man, 'Da Vinci's Workshop'. http://journal.burningman.org/2015/10/burning-man-arts/brc-art/burning-man-2016-da-vincis-workshop/
It will be displayed for the first time on 7x9' banners at the intersection of 8&A at the camp Dream Society.
Without the support of my partner Joe Bob Merritt this painting would not be what it is. Here are his words in offering to this work:
"Upon the iron rails of the Peace Train tracks, crowned by the Ace of Cups, the Vitruvian HUman is adorned with the Golden Horn that Holds the Whole and waters the seeds that are sewn into the fabrics of forest blankets, crystalized wind, stars and flesh.
Flowers flow forth from whence we came…towards HU WE ART. She stands upon the shining shore of The Dawn Lake of Golden Glass. Animals, Plants, Waters, Fires, and Winds, spiral in form and tie together a net of stars that is our Home which is this Whole Living Earth.
Luminous wind songs of color are the breath of bellows that feed the forge sprouting the sparking swords that whistle like humming birds and howling wolves and glide like dragonflies and butterflies eager to perceive and feed Love Returning.
The willow star tears, the dear green meadows, the silk thread web wombs, and fields of sapphires and snow are blown by burn that turns illusion to ash and enlightens and binds us to all that lives and shares in the feast of wonder which is the Grail Herself...Holy Matter, Wholly Mother... for whom we art her shining Knights gathering around this round table to serve Her as a Hymn.
Our Armor is our Amore.
Our Light is Our Sight.
Our Words are our Swords with which we wield to pierce the veils that blind and confine.
Our see-ing creates the scenes and the cities wherein our eyes settle and where once again all are welcomed home again."
'Vitruvian HUman'
egg tempera, casein & oil on wood
12x16"
2016
