KIRKE | CIRCE by Red K Elders

Title:	KIRKE | CIRCE
Date Created:	2023
Copyright:	© Red K Elders
Genre:	Unpublished Art
Mediums:	Graphite Pencil
Views:	292
Posted:	9/26/2023

Projects: My creative praxis combines deep somatic movement and trance work with ancient sorcerous technologies such as those found in the 2000 year old Greek Magical Papyri. I work with these embodied processes in and with wild nature places to facilitate visionary states which are recorded through poetic writings, and subsequently expressed in my highly detailed pencil drawings of the ancient gods and mythic beings I&rsquo m working with. The drawings are both an homage to the gods, and an offering, in which I invite them to dwell. I am giving them a new embodied form through which they may continue to live and breathe in this world. I&rsquo m fascinated by the nature of creative inspiration, that leads me to consider whether what is present in any great work of art is an indwelling animate force a spirit or god, that lives on throughout the ages. Working with this question, I&rsquo m compelled deeper into this intersection of movement, creativity and spirituality, and my life seems to become illuminated from within. Even as we all move through increasingly difficult times, we must continue to let ourselves be danced by something greater especially for all those who can not. We must continually open the seams to allow the movement of some vast majesty that we may never comprehend. Then we become a living work of art. Our lives become a ritual offering of beauty.

Location: Norfolk, England

O Lady Kirke, Enchantress. Hawk-eyed, gleaming with the honeyed blood of your father, Helios twined with the Oceanid nymph-nature of Perse. With flashing golden eyes that shoot out beams of light, incandescent hair that swirls in fiery rays, immortal goddess, secluded in the ancient island of Aeaea. Mistress of herbs - Plant Witch, skilled in the arts of pharmakeia, you distil the holy essence of the green fuse transforming all falsity to true nature. Veil-ripper, truth-revealer, monster-maker, you weave the charm that intoxicates Odysseus’ men, folding them into your herd of swine. Lover of Glaucous, spurned, you turned Scylla into a sea monster, your sorcery reveals all truth that is hidden, that can only be grasped by those who dare to confront the shadows within themselves.