Price
$900.00
Dimensions
9.000 x 12.000 inches
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Description:
Watercolor on board. This painting, 4th in my sacred hand series, was inspired by 3 boulders on the prairie at the Pipestone, MN state park.In a windy, lonely place cradled beneath endless sky and grassland is a secret. Here's some of what Ive written about these sacred stones:
"Under waving turkey foot and blue stem grasses, scraggly chokecherry and sage, within the body of Ina Maka, our mother, is hidden the solidified blood of the ancestors. Here the blood of the people seeps to the betwixt and between place where sky and prairie meet. For generations we’ve birthed this sacred stone, bringing it forth still dripping with groundwater, scarlet as blood, from the body of Ina Maka. Destined for use as prayer pipes, this is the bone of our Mother, blood of our people."
The elements in this image are of the Lakota tradition and symbolic of the West. Out of the western door sweep the winds, and ridden by the sleek little swallows who delight in riding the wild currents announcing a storm. They are the eya paha, announcing the thunders, and fly counter clockwise because in my painting they also symbolize the heyoka. Thunderbeings, lightening, hail, tornadoes and rainbows come out of the west, black in the medicine wheel. It is the place of adulthood, healing, heyoka and purification. The hand is red because its the hand of the People whose bodies are buried beneath the grasses, and whose flesh long ago merged with the soil. Its also Nunpa (hand), a constellation whose story teaches about honor and integrity. Paha Sapa, the sacred Black Hills, are in the background (in actuality too distant to see) and prayer ties flutter in the wind. If you place your hand over the hand in the enlarged mage (by touching your screen) the fit will be about right for participating in the intention and prayer of this painting. The gray waves flowing from the fingertips are power and intention for those to whom this land is sacred, mending the sacred hoop, and honoring the non invasive spirituality and customs of others. The prayer comes out of the western door, in the palm. There is more but this is all I have room for here.
Text and image copyright Helena Nelson Reed. Please dont use without written permission. If you are interested in purchasing a signed print contact me before ordering so FAA can ship it to me for signing, after which Ill forward it, I ask only that you cover the shipping.
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