The cocoon starts to spin, it spins like a whirling dervish –
and suddenly, it falls down! There is a crack,
golden light and the hull is open
Oh! and there is something inside,
a black orb, well-cushioned
I shake it, softly, and the orb sloughs, rolls out of the soft cell
I reach for the orb
and in my fingers, like a waxing moon, it turns golden!
I am the host for the 190th of drawing challenge and the theme is
METAMORPHOSIS
Starting with the COCOON, theme of the last week's drawing challenge of Patrice, I ask myself what will be inside of it. I didn't know. Then, through the experience of strange bad headaches, especially in the last year, I venture the guess, that there is a remain of grief and I should better ease the tensions... and the line of Faust I by J. W. v. Goethe has passed my mind:
"Das also war des Pudels Kern!"
"So this, then, was the kernel of the brute!"
For sheer fear to fall in a depression, I hadn't allowed myself to feel or express any sadness, no tears. But this is so important! And, it is only a mood, a slowly mood, but only a phase.
For this drawing challenge I have padded out the cocoon with catkins and colored a kernel of an
avocado black and golden (thank you for your patience). With the same egg tempera I painted a canvas (20/20cm, ca. 8/8inch):
The metamorphosis of an attitude (one can turn it)
For more of metamorphosis have a look at these amazing players:
woolfy Nadeschda, Rachel F., Barbara Bee, Roberto M., Veronica R., Tammie Lee, Patrice A.,
Lisa Herzfrisch, Leena Vainio, Tanja, Stefanie S., Eric, Lucia H.
and Norma
I am really curious about your metamorphosis
I wish you a happy weekend!
No. 190 METAMORPHOSIS
next: No. 191
Our next host of this week's art challenge is Veronica.
Her theme at this weekend, the 5th + 6th of March is
LEAP
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No. 190 METAMORPHOSIS
next: No. 191
Our next host of this week's art challenge is Veronica.
Her theme at this weekend, the 5th + 6th of March is
LEAP
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