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| Elephant Memories |
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100 Fildzana - 36 Revisited
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| The Night they Burned Dixie Down |
In the end, and you will see why, I chose Steve's title 'The Night they Burned Old Dixie Down' as it encompassed so many historical roads in one pert image of a popular song and touched each of us in some similar way.
At first glance into the cup I was definitely immediately struck by the dancing woman. What she evoked in me was the image of a Can Can singer in Paris, maybe from a painting that I had seen by Lautrec in a museum, maybe just popular culture impressions about Impressionist painting. Below the dancing woman though is the Shaman, the Medicine Woman looking up at the dancer(you can see her profile looking into the dancers feet/skirt), keeping time with one hand and the other hand up to her mouth to express 'shhhhhhh' . This is so in tune with Susan's Night Hunter, stealth, Indian folklore and so on. |
| Shhhhhh |
These two images together made no sense to me and no matter how I tried I could not reconcile them which is why I asked for help in naming it. I looked up the meaning of Old Dixie and of course the most common explanation is that this is the name of the Southern Confederate States during the Civil War, which is also what the song is about.
A string of interesting impressions continued to come up: American Indians and the mixture of cultures:
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| Indian Riding Horse w Bow & Arrow |
During that time in New Orleans $10 dollar notes were issued called 'Dix', the French word for Ten. Suddenly with this information I felt that there was a connection between the Shamanistic vision at the bottom of the cup and the energy and urgency of the Dancer on top.
Of course, I became a little over fascinated with New Orleans, it's Indian Tribes and the mixture of Cultures that came about through the centuries.
I could go on forever, every cup is truly like a painting, symbolism abounds, if you look deep enough the story is there for the taking. ( to the left of the dancer, Steve, is a confederate soldier holding up a flag -of victory or submission I don't know...
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| Confederate Soldier |
You all have inspired me so much, I didn't really even realize how much deeper the stories spilled from the cups could become and so I thank you and hope that we can collaborate again sometime! S
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
100 Fildzana - 41
Elephant: There is no need to hurry. You can expect a progression of gradual success, a sure way ...This is no time for hasty plans and clumsy strokes.Step by step to the final success.GLASS: You are surrounded by honesty, fairness, honesty and trust ...The next days will be favorable for achieving dreams and plans. Take the days ahead.
WHAT: Expect social success or success in public life.Before you have significant conversations about work or finances.Possible viable plans to achieve financial projects.
Arrows: Something had to be urgently undertaken, because they can be bad news. Failure in work or love. Unforeseen tragedy of the loss of which will only now find out.Be careful
*information graciously comes from this web site, not my own interpretations
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