ANDEDION by Red K Elders

Title:	ANDEDION
Date Created:	2020
Copyright:	© Red K Elders
Genre:	Unpublished Art
Mediums:	Graphite Pencil
Views:	147
Posted:	12/5/2023

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

Andedion is a Gaulish word, usually translated as ‘The Under-World God(s)’ or ‘The Infernal One(s)’. Found inscribed in the Chamalières tablet from 50AD. I've come to understand them as a whole host of ancient ones whose rightful veneration has long been forgotten. These very old ones were often the original extremely potent seed forces that were subsequently enrobed in the more palatable guise of the more recognisable Gods and Goddesses of later eras.