BARBELO by Red K Elders

Title:	BARBELO
Date Created:	2022
Copyright:	© Red K Elders. Muse: Sara Pinna
Genre:	Unpublished Art
Mediums:	Graphite Pencil
Views:	207
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

BARBELO is the supreme female divinity in various forms of Gnostic cosmogony. She is the primal feminine force, the first emanation of God. In her union with the pure god-force, all came into being. “I am lust in outward appearance, Yet within me is control. I am the hearing which is attainable to everyone and the speech which is indecipherable. I am a mute who does not speak, and great is my multitude of words. Hear me in gentleness, and discover me in roughness. I am She who cries out, and cast forth upon the face of the earth. I prepare bread and my mind within. I am the knowledge of my name. I am the one who cries out, and I listen." - From The Thunder, Perfect Mind - which exists only in the Coptic version found at Nag Hammadi in 1945. The author, date, and place of composition are unknown, but it seems that the text was originally composed in Greek well before 350 C.E., the approximate date of the Coptic manuscript