Raven Skull Vanitas

 

 

Raven Skull Vanitas

Original Oil

18X24

Judy Vars

550.00

 

In Skokomish tribal legend, snow-white raven stole the sun, moon, stars, water and fire back from

gray eagle at the request of the people. He hung the sun, moon and stars back up in the sky. He dropped the water, forming streams and lakes. He made fire available to the people, growing black from its smoke as he flew.

The black Raven is usually associated with the trickester and the creator, in North American native culture, able to pass between our world and the spirit world.

The raven either black or white brings the secrets of magic between our world and the spirit world.

Whether black or white the Raven is a powerful symbol and one I paint over and over.

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Raven magic is powerful medicine that can give you the courage to enter the darkness of the void, which is the home of all that is not yet in form. The void is called the Great mystery. Great Mystery existed before all other things came into being.
Great Spirit lives inside the void and emerged from the Great Mystery.
Raven is the messenger of the void.

My Raven skull vanitas painting is so beautiful with pink arctic rose flowers and periwinkle forget- me-nots representing the spirit. The theme of spirit and duality reoccurs  frequently in my art. I find very satisfying the Yin and Yang philosophy; that in opposites lay the paradox that we are related to each other, in creation we need both sides. The Ravens are mythological birds which carry messages to the spirit world. Nothing is ever black and white. Yes these are this things I contemplate while creating my art.