[Art] Umiri (Koondoola Land Spirit - 01)
Feb. 5th, 2009 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

Umiri (01)
(Swamp paperbark grove spirit).

I met Umiri many years ago now, and feel s/he is the patron of that particular grove of swamp paperbarks in the southern end of Koondoola; who no longer experience the regular rise and fall of the swamp since the government came in and drained them all away by using groundwater for our tapwater.
Umiri isn't a spirit I 'worked' with spiritually, just a spirit I paid respect to and still do from time to time. I don't get down to the Southern end very often, but I like it when I do. It feels older there, and more primal. And I'd be lying if I didn't say my meeting Umiri is a part of that.
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A4.
illo's board, fineliner, metallic and paint, pencil, acrylic, aquarelle.
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Date: 2009-02-05 07:36 am (UTC)You *are* something.
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Date: 2009-02-05 07:46 am (UTC)^_^
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Date: 2009-02-05 07:49 am (UTC)But it is.
Thank you for sharing it.
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Date: 2009-02-05 08:55 am (UTC)Since so much of magic and the spiritual is intent, even though I'm on a different continent, I just offered Umiri a bowl of water on my altar and some acorns from the oak outside my window. Your work makes me see and feel that intense longing for moisture. I hope he/she can sense my offering and take some comfort from it...
xo
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Date: 2009-02-05 03:41 pm (UTC)And yeah, I see it as being between day/night too. I was going to go with sunset colours originally, but... well some part of my brain took over and changed them last minute. ;)
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Date: 2009-02-05 09:48 am (UTC)This piece definitely has a very indigenous feel to me. I looove the gradients of color. And the darker Umiri against the darkening blue background just has a very otherworld/spirit-feel to me.
Your art, and you, are wonderful. ^_^ I definitely look forward to seeing more pieces from you, with land spirits.
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Date: 2009-02-05 03:43 pm (UTC)I love your Kuan Yin icon!
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Date: 2009-02-05 09:55 am (UTC)Have you encountered any spirits that ask for peppermints? Apparently I've been told that is what my local spirits want/prefer...I usually give them alcohol :)
Working directly with 'wights' or land spirits is out of my ken at the moment. I'm going to try and convince the husband to let me order some prints...
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Date: 2009-02-05 03:44 pm (UTC)I've never specifically encountered a spirit that asked for peppermints; but nothing really surprises me anymore and I think it's perfectly valid!
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Date: 2009-02-05 11:17 am (UTC)I really love this one, too. I didn't think much of it in the black and white, but the colours really bring the whole thing to life. S/he looks as if those dark hands are reaching for the sky, catching the stars, and it sings such a deep, organic, primordial feel to it, the sort of song the things that crawl in the undergrowth in the rainforests here sing, but at the same time, an awareness of sparsity and heat over there in WA.
... I don't know, there's something in that that doesn't fit with words. Not that you want my opinion, but that's it - I think it's fab :-)
xoxox
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Date: 2009-02-05 03:45 pm (UTC)Thank you so much, and I always value your opinion. *snugs*
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Date: 2009-02-05 04:09 pm (UTC)Lovely, my dear. :*
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Date: 2009-02-05 06:11 pm (UTC)plant and land spirits are sort of an obsession of mine. I fell off the wagon last year but I'm really looking forward to getting to know them again this spring...especially with all the wild food foraging I'll be doing.