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the Magician.  As i said yesterday…on the Dreamer Cloth,  this magician came as if i drew Blind…just appeared out of the tip of the pen.  No thought,  no urge…just appeared of Her own accord.   

Today i tried to capture that essence…on paper…and was and was not able.  This,  above is where i got.  Which is good,  but not there.  But i found i need to stand back and let it go as it will.  So this much was good for today.    There is nothing specific about the original image,  it is SO UNspecific, so vague,  but there is a  …..stance….an energy that i need to keep with me when the Cloth goes.  

the first was good for this but the being was ummm,  compact.  not open enough,  so i had to cut and add space.  it worked.  But still,  something so subtle in the stance of the original,  the Posture….i don't have that yet and Need it.   Not that She will ever appear like this again,  but i need to have that initial being.  So tomorrow,  i will try again.  She will be a shape shifter so how she might appear here on out will be different,  but i need to know the original Being as she chose to appear.

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17 responses to “the Magician”

  1. Patriciaspangler47@gmail.com Avatar

    I would think shape shifters are hard to capture–said by one who can’t draw well. So I studied the two trying to feel the difference. Second version has elongated a bit and feels more ethereal to me. Having shifted from a more planted place originally. Love them both. Maybe she just won’t be pinned down.

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  2. Kim Avatar
    Kim

    The magic part of this magician can’t be reproduced the same as the first time. You say you need to keep it’s energy with you when the cloth goes but the energy came from within you. It will come again. It will be different next time…but it will come again.

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  3. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    i remember somewhere in my tarot..the magician restoring..channeling spirit into the world..energy flowing through..
    and i sit here at my table watching the snow flurry outside..it is so silent..so still right now..yesterday the winds blew the snow almost parallel to the ground and lifted the snow off of the meadow in changing swirling forms..you could imagine shape shifters there..you could imagine nature playing..and yet the force ..if you ventured out was all enveloping..the cold and the power..and now this stillness while the snow falls…how amazing the times when you can capture something so elemental
    gentle day grace

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  4. jude Avatar

    the moment it first appears, is like energy. it doesn’t get captured again. I think this fleeting aspect is what thrills us.

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  5. Deb G Avatar

    I love how you keep working on things…

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  6. Ali Avatar
    Ali

    I have been there, trying to re – capture the energy and spontaneity of that first line and it never worked – I do love the paper magician as well though, and the story of how the first one came to be.

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  7. Wendy@ Late StartStudio Avatar

    A dreamer needs a magician and vice versa. I love to look at your dreamer turned . . . she’s dancing, forward, always forward.

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  8. grace Avatar

    the one on the cloth…is still. in place. “showing”
    something…
    the drawn on paper has motion, is going…and i guess, going
    out of view until “next time”. This is what i see today.

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  9. grace Avatar

    yes… i used to do Tarot. But this is a different kind
    of Magician i’m thinking. A Magician of common things, of
    the ordinary, maybe

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  10. grace Avatar

    yes. maybe i just want to really SEE what it is? This time?

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  11. grace Avatar

    yes…very much what kind of Magician i imagine this to be..
    of ordinary
    when ordinary shapeshifts
    just as your words say

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  12. grace Avatar

    it is. Very much and the only way for it to happen is
    pen to Cloth as the primary movement

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  13. grace Avatar

    yes…things keep asking

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  14. grace Avatar

    it never works, does it. but to truly LOOK
    takes it IN, imprints in some way

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  15. grace Avatar

    O! it didn’t occur to me to do that, but you are right!!!!
    Thank you for this!!!

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  16. Mo Crow Avatar

    100 variations

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