Lion-Heart by dragongirl
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Poser- Bryce - Amorphium - pillars, gate, sculptures: Dimocrates- DAZ - with my own textures — pieces from outoftouch - Super Updo2 - with my own textures
One of the Underground Shamans
She knows that real Living is a journey from what everyone believes, to the Place of immutable Truths - The Greater Order.
It takes courage to take the journey from our family’s and our culture’s misconceptions - those misconceptions that become actual parts of what Beings think of as their own Identity, woven deeply within our pre-thought sense of Reality.
Like the shocking immensity of a lion’s roar at sunset, this shaman’s daily work has made her heart magnificent, and fills it with a Grand Wildness few ever experience.
Comments (39)
A powerful figure, well done!
Everything about this is wonderful!
Very nice work!
Her outfit and makeup are so effective, lovely
I love your portraits of powerful women....inspiring!
Beautiful
(picking up from where I left off the last time I was here...) When Buddhism entered China, it developed this severe version of the parent faith, where a mental/spiritual slap/collision/intrusion/explosion was meant to burst-open the presumptions and cultural misconceptions (to use your words) that we're all burdened with...I'm sure you know this, but I bring it up because your text brings it to mind. The 'sudden satori', the sudden casting off of all those preconceptions to reveal the pure inner energy, light, etc. When a Chinese leader asked the first Indian buddhist master---who'd just arrived in his country---"who is it who sits before me?", the master answered, "I don't know..." That's what your description tells us...and the Lion's roar is the explosion that frees the journeyer to no longer hold onto those preconceptions, to say "I don't know" as a joyous revelation. So one can wonder what such a person---being freed and filled---feels, thinks about, intuits..."Grand wildness" is a great description...
Your image is doused in a deep late-august sepia, a brown filled with olive tones, with hidden riches not usually found in browns. The shaman stares with tranquility but also a kind of hardness---to me, it's not a hardness that says "stay out," but a hardness that says, "are you ready?" She doesn't want an easy answer, she wants a truthful one. (One of my spiritual teachers, years ago, leaned forward and, with old and glowing eyes, whispered slowly: "Where have you been..." I couldn't answer until---after some time---I realized he was asking where I'd been in my soul. Finally I said, haltingly: "Uh---not very far." He smiled deeply and said: "Good. Then we can begin...")
You have rich foliage behind her, as well as on her gown. (Great gown!) And then strong pillars and fence pikes, mixing opulence with rigor. And her eyes are dotted with rich reds and yellows (I guess you could say she has several third eyes). A creative and iron-strong visualization of your shaman...her eyes are emerald green and feel soft, so underneath her rock like gaze there is softness and invitation. A very integrated, complex portrait. And the lion on her chest completes your title. It's her spiritual crest.
So regal and beautiful!
Wow, so fantastic artwork!!!