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Category: Druids

Reimagining the Imagined

A series of digital images reimagining the Celtic deer who appears near the end of my long painting ‘Druidica Blue: Deja Vu (Cave Art For the New Psyche).’ Here she is reimagined as a ‘double-deer on the river with a blue slash.’

Reimagining the imagined. The Celtic deer discovers herself in a geometric composition with a goddess manipulating a moon symbol, also from the original painting.

Reimagining the imagined. She is reimagined in two-dimensional profile where ‘dry sand is covering reeds and half-buried, disintegrated reed boats.’

Reimagining the imagined. She is reimagined in the centre (space) of the roll of paper where she began. I have previously posted the original painting, on a roll of mid-weight Italian paper (35’W X 5’H), with images and rationale: @ https://poemimage.com/2023/05/01/druidica-blue-deja-vu-cave-art-for-the-new-psyche/

Reimagining the imagined. I reimagine her being of the sun. In this composition two diagonal rods exit or enter a window in a dome. Diagonal lines connect her to the window. 

Reimagining the imagined. She is reimagined here within a defined space. Perhaps an open air temple. I include a section of the original painting.

Reimagining the imagined. I remember painting the curvilinear antlers and feeling the texture of the paper on the floor. In Photoshop I (somehow) created a ‘brass brooch in refracted sunlight.’

Reimagining the imagined. The Celtic deer experiences a sudden buoyant springtime: surging youth & chlorophyll. Excuse the double watermarks. In doing so much layering and relayering I lose track of it.

Reimagining the imagined. Three primary influences (Matisse, Cubism, cartoons) create the sensation of a distant seashore I will only visit in my imagination.

Reimagining the imagined. In this Cubistic image the Celtic deer seems to enter the edges of a reverberaton. 

I have previously posted the original painting (35’W X 5’H) with images and rationale: @ https://poemimage.com/2023/05/01/druidica-blue-deja-vu-cave-art-for-the-new-psyche/

A Whale of Eachtra. A Whale of Imbas Forusnai.

A Whale Fountain-ing Forever, Before the Beginning & Nevermore: A Whale of Eachtra. A Whale of Imbas Forusnai.

A Whale Fountain-ing Murmured Droplets in Rhythmic Murmuration: A Whale of Eachtra. A Whale of Imbas Forusnai.

A Whale Fountain-ing Fountains of Fertility: A Whale of Eachtra. A Whale of Imbas Forusnai.

A Whale Fountain-ing Liquidy Sunshowers Warming Fountains: A Whale of Eachtra. A Whale of Imbas Forusnai.

A Whale Fountain-ing the Monstrous Eternal, Encapsulated Within Minute Ephemera: A Whale of Eachtra. A Whale of Imbas Forusnai.

A Whale Fountain-ing Pleasures of Being Gazed Upon: A Whale of Eachtra. A Whale of Imbas Forusnai.

A Whale Fountain-ing Wizardry, Alchemical Muse-Magic & Psychedelic Music: A Whale of Eachtra. A Whale of Imbas Forusnai.

A Whale Fountain-ing Cloudy Thickets Un-surrounding Inner Fountain Eye: A Whale of Eachtra. A Whale of Imbas Forusnai.

A Whale Fountain-ing Heart to Fountain Heart: A Whale of Eachtra. A Whale of Imbas Forusnai.

The whale from my long painting in my previous posting. The whale is about halfway through, or across, the painting. I reimagine the whale performing a new role, in new scenarios, but deep down we know it’s the same fountaining whale: https://poemimage.com/2023/05/01/druidica-blue-deja-vu-cave-art-for-the-new-psyche/

A linocut moon from my ‘wordless poem’ Nevermore Together (2014, The Porcupine Quill’s press – 120 linocut prints). A Spiral Monk digital drawing from a series I did a few years ago. The Irish terminology discovered in the John Moriarty book Dreamtime.

Eachtra: An adventure to or from the Otherworld of mythic, or of near-mythic, strangeness. Imbas Forusnai: Method of divination practiced by seer-poets of ancient Ireland.

Imagine a Word

Imagine a word in the yellow garden of the angel-faery

imagine the word mirabilia

mirabilia opens a curtain revealing a portal

angel-faery imagines me ~ I imagine mirabilia

not three not two not one not me disappearing

into a collapsed perimeter ~ I imagine an angel-faery

in the yellow garden you memorize mirabilia

three eyes aimed upon a stem three eyes upon a flower

memory cascading sounding the word mirabilia

in the yellow garden yellow-ish flowers whisper

in the luminous yellow garden angel-faery whispers

angel-faery touches my eyelid to the flower of her vision

in blue soil I ring like a bell

the keyhole shaped like an ancient symbol

the flower of mirabilia touches your blue soil

darkness like a keyhole beckons the echo of my vision

into the garden of the angel-faery memory cascading

mirabilia penetrates a keyhole beyond the collapsed perimeter

who what where when why

not three not two not one not you

disappearing within the collapsed perimeter.

ink brushwork, printmaking, digital collage s mccabe

Grey Concrete Sidewalk

I finished four deadlines yesterday I began in February when I finished my 33′ X 5′ painting on paper. Now I can do something about promoting this painting.

final section, Druidica, 2022, Steven McCabe, 33′ X 5′ – mixed media on paper

The amount of work I have done in the last year makes me feel half my age.

I remember when I used to work in schools.

I went for a walk after the rain. Garbage washes over the street in familiar colours.

I see a painting in the tiny art gallery window but when I photograph it clouds appear.

Is this a store security camera monitor? I would splice the discarded ‘evidence’ into an art film.

The Classic Candy Store sponsored a free giveaway of Moirs chocolate at the local (it has been resurrected) theatre in 1927. One day my shadow will vanish forever like a chocolate company.

December 5th, 1927
December 5,1927

I used a Sharpie marker in my sketchbook on the subway. The lady in white does not see me. I only see her in the photograph.

I only notice the Celtic manuscript in front of the drugstore parking lot when it begins to fade.

In the elevator at the medical clinic a Taj Mahal-like shape eats away at the cheap paneling.

Now I can do something about promoting this painting.

detail- Druidica, 2022, Steven McCabe, 33′ X 5′ – mixed media on paper

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