DIONYSUS by Red K Elders

Title:	DIONYSUS
Date Created:	2021
Copyright:	© Red K Elders
Genre:	Unpublished Art
Mediums:	Graphite Pencil
Views:	270
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 climbing vine O hidden sign O python coiled in a cave Passion's slave and master O Author of the welcome disaster; Welcome! Everlasting killer of the black goat; You who float at the outer edge of reason And desire; you whose immortal grandfather Was his sire: EUOI SABOI! O AGRIOS THEOI! Wild one of the woods, running loose; love-child Of Persephone and Zeus; by Hera hated, and hunted By the titan-kin, who pursued you through the forms Of bee and boar and bull - 'Til cornered as a bull, You were dismembered in great agony. But then Your father from the still-hot ashes pulled Your beating heart, and placed it in a secret womb To start again, O friend Of drunks and dreamers, fighters, fugitives, And pythons coiled in caves; of passions' slaves And masters. O Welcome Disaster - Come! I call you to this place, and picturing your radiant face I lift this brimming cup. EUOI SABOI DIONYSUS! from Hymn To Zagreus-Sabazios-Dionysus, in The Hekataeon by Jack Grayle, which was integral to the making of this drawing.