[Art] Earthworm as Totem - Redo.

[moonvoice]

Earthworm as Totem - Represents:

Groundskeeper. Gardening and the gardener. Earth protection. Nourishing the earth / nourishment from the earth. Earth wisdom. Respect for water sources. Nourishment from the night. Environmentalism and pollution. Reparation. Miraculous regeneration. Healing. Growth. The dirty work. Androgyny.

the full essay can be found here.


Earthworm as Totem
Original @ Etsy / Prints @ DeviantArt









This one is so shiny! :D

Comments

[goddess_incarnate]

This is like the most beautiful thing I've ever seen <3

[moonvoice]

Wow, thank you! :D :D

[ariestess]

Oooooers... This is pretty! And looks vaguely phallic to me somehow... I'm going to blame that perception on my horny muses...

[tulikettu]

nope, definitely phallic. first time I saw it, I was like, "ooo, shiny head peeking out of foreskin!" I wonder if it'll change how I feel about my garden worms this next growing season. The totemic description fits me to a tee. I love the soil detail.

[moonvoice]

PENIS!WORM.

[tulikettu]

ahahahahahahahaaaaa!

are you phallus-ifying the worm or wormifying the penis? (*is hoping for the former rather than the latter*)

[moonvoice]

Phallusifying the worm. :D I don't know, they essentially help to fertilise the earth. They're 'dirty.' It all just kind of came together in my head and worm didn't mind. Also a lot of people haven't noticed! So I think it'll just be one of those things where some people will tilt their head one day and be like OH MY GOOOOOO-

[tulikettu]

makin' love to the beautiful black earth. ooooh yeah......

[gone_fishing]

D'awwwwwwwwww, I love it! XD

[moonvoice]

Yay! :D

[silverjackal]

Heh. I'm glad to see that other people have observed that this looks phallic to them, so I can freely admit to it. It's not just the earthworm itself, but the longer leaves, and the shape of the soil. I will freely admit to having a dirty mind in this regard... which somewhat fits with the worm, yes? :D In all seriousness, I love the richness and vividity of the colours. Somehow the mixture of the greens, and that nice loamy brown, and the pink, all work exceedingly well.

[moonvoice]

Oh yes, definitely phallic. *blush* It fits for what earthworm always wanted, in fact this composition is almost identical to the previous illustration, except just... better and more fleshed out. The earthworm also fertilises the soil, moves through tunnels in the soil, it just very much lends itself to other parallels.

[urbanimal]

Love love love love LOVE!

[white_rabbit]

AWWWWWW. Somehow I never thought an earthworm would be able to give me the warm-n-fuzzies, but here we are. :) <3

[burningbright]

♥!!!!

Or rather, ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥. *hee* Earthwooorm.

*eyeballs Etsy* Hmm. You have raised your prices to a more appropriate cost for your artwork. I will just have to watch it and see if it's still there when I have the funds.

[aldersprig]

Aaaw. Earthworm is love.

[mirrorred_star]

It's the cutest phallic worm I've ever seen!