by allan renshaw
Katrine Rustad - Collaborator
Oil on Panel
h: 109 w: 109 d: 2 (cms).
An unseen landscape for our minds,
This totemic panorama
We assume other nature is without mind
With our inherited individual minds
Oblivious to the countless elemental signals
We have grown estranged
Our visceral bodies
Ignorant to countless intelligences
Elemental phenomena
Resonate our bodies, without us knowing
These Heronlands
Offer us intimate opportunity
This wild, luminous nature
provides us intimate identification
A way of re-becoming animal
Attuning to the greater psyche of nature
Finding reverence
Finding ecological consciousness
by allan renshaw
Katrine Rustad - Collaborator
Oil on Panel & Incantation
h: 107 w: 107 d: 2 (cms).
Caledonian Red Bears. Progenitors of human and bear. They cross the primordial divide. To perform the ritual totemic dance of transmutation. To help humans redefine their relationship with earth. Take up their true responsibility - Of rebecoming animal.
Ancestors came to me in a dream and then on waking, in a dynamic stream of ecological consciousness. They asked me to be their voice, to be a conduit, to send a message. They also asked me to make an image-story of their ritual ceremonial dance - a dance of transmutation, a dance of reconciliation.
-The Image-Maker, Ursus, Winter 2020.
The Red Bear's Ancestral Message:
We are the ancient Caledonian Red Bears
We cross the primordial divide,
We come in ritual ceremonial dance.
To dance the act of transmutation,
To bring about reconciliation
To save your souls.
To read the incantation in its entirety please visit: https://www.allanrenshaw.com/caledonian-red-bears
NOTE: The UN has declared a decade of restoration - beginning from 2020 - a tangible platform.