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Sacred Spaces - i suppose all space on earth is sacred, although we seldom treat it as such. In this gallery i include some of my favourite things i have ever actioned on behalf of God.

i usually store this gallery in AA - Artists' Anonymous - a Smug Communities repository that I think is appropriate. i assume that is why artists use pen (painting) names. A man or woman's faith is their own business...

A lot of my work employs collage - it allows me to use modern media and ancient techniques of painting. It is, in essence, image making nonetheless. Paint, silver gelatin, pixels, cardboard, bytes - all form the canvas - the end result is image of a single moment in a succession of moments. One foot after the other...

For a good view of much of the subject matter in this gallery go to - and beyond -http://www.sacred-texts.com
inanga
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inanga > Angels and Tuatara at my Table: Homage to ... ...eating off restored plates. Circumference: 820mm inanga
inanga > Tulips I had forgotten where this small piece, inspired by van Gogh went. It ended up on my Mum's wall in Greymouth. Where she hung it was just perfect and a surprise for me. I was listening to a video feed of Vincent by Don MacLean with a great selection of Vincent's work, inclusing 'Starry, starry night' and others. I picked up a brush, some acrylics and oils and Vincent's spirit crept into the trees at the top of the painting. The Phi spiral took care of the tulip garden, the fence and the track leading to the gate.
inanga > Photo Albums Ms P got hold of three of the same type of photo album and asked for colourful covers for them. I knew the utilitarian nature of a photo album and that these paintings/collages would not last forever – as long as Miles got a photo of them for the Web then it didn’t matter. They were spontaneous, without little occult forethought or significance, but nonetheless a lot of fun. I am looking at them as I write this… 3 Something Italian, English and Kiwi Ms P asked for something of her mongrel blend – Italian on her father’s side, English on her mother’s and Kiwi. Her Dad was born in on the West Coast of the South Island in the same hospital ward – McBrearty Annex – as I was. Acrylic, gouache, and cut outs from a Kiwi tourist brochure 2007
inanga > Death of Grace Kelly - see Plog inangawiremu.blogspot.com for the story
inanga > 'Let me Pass', Kosovo detail inanga
inanga > City of Fire inanga
inanga > Waitohi's Grave, Mana Island This poem goes with it: The Silver Fern Each new day The fern unfolds Upon our land And we join hands In praise Of where we stand Where we are raised The land of the Kiwi Once of the moa Our Ao-tea-roa Our Aotearoa The land of the kiwi Once of the moa Now ours Our Aotearoa We are the people Of Aotearoa We are all one Free, proud, strong Always together One voice, one song Yet always together We gather to learn A united throng Content and free Gathered beneath The southern cross And the silver fern Our fern unfolds Our silver fern We of the kiwi Once of the moa The fern unfolds In our fields of gold In and upon us You and I Kiwis and moas In our Our Aotearoa... inanga
inanga > Matariki (Pleiades) The Pleiades is known in Aotearoa (New Zealand) as Matariki, and its rising about 21 June marks the beginning of the new year in the southern hemisphere. The ancient people of Aotearoa (the Owaitaha) knew it as the Seven left Eyes of the Seven Chiefs, and in Greek mythology it was called the Seven Sisters. There are, however, ten bright stars in the group that appears as part of the constellation of Taurus. The bright stars are Asterope 1 and 2, Taygeta, Calaeno, Electra, Merope, Atlas, Alcyone, Pleione and Maia. Only now is the importance of Pleiades being realised in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and recently Stonehenge Aotearoa was opened with its alignment fitting in with the Matariki calendar. See www.astronomynz.org.nz/stonehenge for accurate astronomical alignments. acrylic, paua (abalone shell), silver spray paint and collage on board, 2007
inanga > Eye of Horus: Paua - detail from 'Let me Pass' by inanga i thought this an appropriate place for some of the wisdom of Thoth: EMERALD TABLET IV: The Space Born 'List ye, O man, to the voice of wisdom, list to the voice of Thoth, the Atlantean. Freely I give to thee of my wisdom gathered from the time and space of this cycle; master of mysteries, Sun of the morning, Thoth the teacher of men, is of ALL. Long time ago, I in my childhood, lay 'neath the stars on long-buried Atlantis, dreaming of mysteries far above men. Then in my heart grew there a great longing to conquer the pathway that led to the stars. Year after year, I sought after wisdom, seeking new knowledge, following the way, until at last my Soul, in great travail, broke from its bondage and bounded away. Free was I from the bondage of earth-men. Free from the body, I flashed through the night. Unlocked at last for me was the star-space. Free was I from the bondage of night. Now to the end of space sought I wisdom, far beyond knowledge of finite man. Far into space, my Soul traveled freely into infinity's circle of light. Strange, beyond knowledge, were some of the planets, great and gigantic, beyond dreams of men. Yet found I Law, in all of its beauty, working through and among them as here among men. Flashed forth my soul through infinity's beauty, far through space I flew with my thoughts. Rested I there on a planet of beauty. Strains of harmony filled all the air. Shapes there were, moving in Order, great and majestic as stars in the night; mounting in harmony, ordered equilibrium, symbols of the Cosmic, like unto Law. Many the stars I passed in my journey, many the races of men on their worlds; some reaching high as stars of the morning, some falling low in the blackness of night. Each and all of them struggling upward, gaining the heights and plumbing the depths, moving at times in realms of brightness, living through darkness, gaining the Light. Know, O man, that Light is thine heritage. Know that darkness is only a veil. Sealed in thine heart is brightness eternal, waiting the moment of freedom to conquer, waiting to rend the veil of the night. Some I found who had conquered the ether. Free of space were they while yet they were men. Using the force that is the foundation of ALL things, far in space constructed they a planet, drawn by the force that flows through the ALL; condensing, coalescing the ether into forms that grew as they willed. Outstripping in science, they, all of the races, mighty in wisdom, sons of the stars. Long time I paused, watching their wisdom. Saw them create from out of the ether cities gigantic of rose and gold. Formed forth from the primal element, base of all matter, the ether far flung. Far in the past, they had conquered the ether, freed themselves from the bondage of toil; formed in their mind only a picture and swiftly created, it grew. Forth then, my soul sped, throughout the Cosmos, seeing ever, new things and old; learning that man is truly space-born, a Sun of the Sun, a child of the stars. Know ye, O man, whatever form ye inhabit, surely it is one with the stars. Thy bodies are nothing but planets revolving around their central suns. When ye have gained the light of all wisdom, free shall ye be to shine in the ether. One of the Suns that light outer darkness, one of the space-born grown into Light. Just as the stars in time lose their brilliance, light passing from them into the great source, so, O man, thy soul passes onward, leaving behind the darkness of night. Formed forth ye, from the primal ether, filled with the brilliance that flows from the source, bound by the ether coalesced around, yet ever it flames until at last it is free. Lift up your flame from out of the darkness, fly from they night and ye shall be free. Traveled I through the space-time, knowing my soul at last was set free, knowing that now might I pursue wisdom. Until at last, I passed to a plane, hidden from knowledge, known not to wisdom, extension beyond all that we know. Now, O man, when I had this knowing, happy my soul grew, for now I was free. Listen, ye space-born, list to my wisdom: know ye not that ye, too, will be free. List ye again, O man, to my wisdom, that hearing, ye too, might live and be free. Not of the earth are yee, but child of the Infinite Cosmic Light. Now, to ye, I give knowledge, freedom to walk in the path I have trod, showing ye truly how by my striving, I trod the path that leads to the stars. Hark ye, O man, and know of thy bondage, know how to free thyself from the toils Out of the darkness shall ye rise upward, one with the Light and one with the stars. Follow ye ever the path of wisdom. Only by this can ye rise from below. Ever man's destiny leads him onward into the Curves of Infinity's ALL. Know ye, O man, that all space is ordered. Only by Order are ye One with the ALL. Order and balance are the Law of the Cosmos. Follow and ye shall be One with the ALL. He who would follow the pathway of wisdom, open must be to the Flower of Life, extending his consciousness out of the darkness, flowing through time and space in the ALL. Deep in the silence, first ye must linger until at last ye are free from desire, free from the longing to speak in the silence. Conquer by silence, the bondage of words. Abstaining from eating until ye have conquered desire for food, that is bondage of soul. Then lie ye down in the darkness. Close ye your eyes from the rays of the Light. Center thy soul-force in the place of thine consciousness, shaking it free from the bonds of the night. Place in thy mind-place the image thou desireth. Picture the place thou desireth to see. Vibrate back and forth with thy power. Loosen the soul from out of its night. Fiercely must thou shake with all of thy power until at last thy soul shall be free. Mighty beyond words is the flame of the Cosmic, hanging in planes, unknown to man; mighty and balanced, moving in Order, music of harmonies, far beyond man. Speaking with music, singing with color, flame from the beginning of Eternity's ALL. Spark of the flame art thou, O my children, burning with color and living with music. List to the voice and thou shalt be free. Consciousness free is fused with the Cosmic, One with the Order and Law of the ALL. Knew ye not man, that out of the darkness, Light shall flame forth, a symbol of ALL. Pray ye this prayer for attaining of wisdom. Pray for the coming of Light to the ALL. "Mighty Spirit of Light that shines through the Cosmos, draw my flame closer in harmony to thee. Lift up my fire from out of the darkness, magnet of fire that is One with the ALL. Lift up my soul, thou mighty and potent. Child of the Light, turn not away. Draw me in power to melt in thy furnace; One with all things and all things in One, fire of the life-strain and One with the Brain." When ye have freed thy soul from its bondage, know that for ye the darkness is gone. Ever through space ye may seek wisdom, bound not by fetters forged in flesh. Onward and upward into the morning, free flash, O Soul, to the realms of Light. Move thou in Order, move thou in Harmony, freely shalt move with the Children of Light. Seek ye and know ye, my Key of Wisdom. Thus, O man, ye shall surely be free.'
Angels and Tuatara at my Table: Homage to ...

...eating off restored plates.

Circumference: 820mm

inanga
> Angels and Tuatara at my Table: Homage to ... ...eating off restored plates. Circumference: 820mm inanga
Angels and Tuatara at my Table: Homage to ...

...eating off restored plates.

Circumference: 820mm

inanga
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