The Oracle Series: The Patron Saint of Rebellion.
‘The Patron Saint of Rebellion’ Print available from Society6 – https://society6.com/product/the-oracle-series-the-patron-saint-of-rebellion_print?sku=s6-21660052p4a1v4504.05.2021.
Have you heard of Lilith as the rebel, the patron saint of non-conformists? Lilith as the spark of rebellion, the taste of freedom. Who would I be if I hadn’t met Lilith? Where would I be? What would I be doing? How old was I when I met her? Fifteen? Sixteen? Younger?
She visited me once, in a dream, and once when I was as awake as I am now. I was lost enough and young enough, not to question whether I was going mad. The experience was real, not a hallucination, and I felt chosen by her.
Lilith led me here, to this person I am now, to all the things I know now. I gave up on conforming, I’ve attempted to live my own way, to forge my own path. Lilith led me here, to this me, to this place, she did her art. But what would I be if I never met her? Where would I be?
01.06.2021.
I did the first sketch for the next painting in the Oracle Series today, Lilith. Each one is an experiment, there’s no certainty in them, but that’s the point. Each one is an exploration of what I can do, with what’s possible, with what I have, my level of skill, my state of mind in those moments of creation. Where I’m at emotionally, mentally, where my focus is, the alternating steadiness of my hands. Saying this, knowing this, each painting is… more than the one that proceeded it. Lilith is wild and unruly, but grappling for steadiness, even in sketch form.
09.06.2021.
I spent the day working on ‘The Patron Saint of Rebellion’, aka, Lilith… I look at Lilith across the room, she looks wild, untamed, strong in her rebellion against the world, but also herself. Rebelling against her perceived limits, what her body’s capable of, the limits of her own mind, the limits of her existence.
There’s no serpent, no wings, she’s just a woman. A woman slandered, a woman just trying to be herself. Behind her is the blood moon, or the red of a lunar eclipse. Above her head, crowning her, is a crescent. Poking out from behind her like a dragon’s tooth, it reminds me of advice I once heard. “Be like the dragon. Can you imagine a dragon being afraid?”
‘The Murder of Miss O’, a novella, which also features and appearance from Lilith… sort of. Available now, from booky places.
