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sumwoman's avatar

nice ones in this lot.

John Scot's avatar

Thank you :-) and thank you for looking.

sumwoman's avatar

: )

Good Witch Poetries's avatar

Bravo bravo!! 🤩🤓 #heartfoliofriday

John Scot's avatar

Thank you for the accolades, Good Witch. The 'bravo' seems to have a special vibrato to it now - no doubt picked up from your recent trip.

Good Witch Poetries's avatar

Yes.. you can hear it via text! Love that 🤓 my recent trip was incredibly inspiring, invigorating, life changing really.. but unfortunately has left me as a pile of goooo .. ( gew?..wtf how to spell goo?) finding I need much recovery time after such an experience 🖤🏴‍☠️ but looking forward to creating some dope ass stuff—fuelled by honestly such explosive and ancient power 🤓🤩 I’m still really just tryin’ to process it all.. much in my soul currently ..

John Scot's avatar

I think it's good to realize and honor that feeling of needing to rest and recharge. I hope the geugh runs off or dries up soon.

noria's avatar

..........oh, those old buildings, that we did not built ______ they talk to us, but..do we listen? 🤔😶

John Scot's avatar

Yes! Well... listening, maybe not understanding much though....

Quantum Animation's avatar

Just beautiful imagery. Love the 2 East Indian panels. That geometry on the 10th panel looks a lot the the Hopi Man in the Maze. Is that deliberate?

https://www.redbubble.com/i/art-print/Man-In-The-Maze-Native-Americans-by-mixedshop/137926081/wqnt

John Scot's avatar

Thank you, QA! A couple of days ago I saw that "Hopi Man in the Maze" here on Substack - did you see that one too? I liked it very much, thanks for bringing that up. It was not consciously related to that image - that artwork was from around last year's post. I took a photo of a Celtic design and added the colors from a couple of paintings I had done (similar technique used in the figure below - that came from an alchemical text).

Quantum Animation's avatar

Oh no, no - not on Substack. The Man in the Maze is a very dear symbol to me. As you know, I lived in N. Arizona for 4 years. Hopi country. Been to the mesas. Tim has a Hopi ring with that symbol on it. He wore it so much the shank cracked in two. We loved Hopi jewelry and art.

OK, here’s one of those stories. My favorite cat, Leo, I ever had was with us his last year in Sedona. When he died, I had a wooden coffin made for him which I carved his name on. To bury him, we took off to the desert wilderness behind our house a ways, and I stopped at an arbitrary site - and said, here! Tim started digging, and right at the spot he dug up a silver Man in the Maze button. I knew Leo was transmuting, was returning as a human. Still have that button.

John Scot's avatar

Thank you so much for sharing that story - you have the most wonderful collection of 'threshold' experiences. Well I guess this counts as an interesting coincidence then! I just heard about this "Man in the Maze" for the first time a couple days ago - the post compared the image to a labyrinth in a Gothic Cathedral.

Quantum Animation's avatar

I bet Darkstar is familiar with all this.

Quantum Animation's avatar

Yes, a coincidence, and also I think many ancient cultures had versions of that maze symbol.

Martina Westover's avatar

Gracias !