Halloween Hilarity & Samhain Silliness

The Oracle of Stillness: Weaving Coherence in the Chaos

Thanks to blogging buddy Boud of Field and Fen, I attended a fascinating art exhibit last week. Boud lives in New Jersey, but she sure keeps her finger on the pulse of all things artistic, so she let me know about this exhibit here in my city of Edmonton, Alberta! As it happens, Harcourt House Gallery is located right in my own neighbourhood, so I could just walk over and see it!

The Oracle of Stillness: Weaving Coherence in the Chaos by artist Noreen Crone-Findlay features many wonderful mixed-media figurines celebrating sacred geometry and the "timeless echoes of the Feminine Divine" (as stated in the brochure). So you know it was right up my alley! Each one incorporates elements such as weaving, knitting, crochet, fused glass, paintings, ceramics, wire, beadwork, macrame, found objects, etc. to bring them to vibrant life.

Here are four of my favourites showing Noreen Crone-Findlay's artistry --

The artist even created her own decorative looms on which to weave items for the Divine Feminine figures. This one is called the "Rigid Heddle Band Cat Shape Loom and Heddle" --

And this "Star Loom" features hare/rabbit symbology sacred to the Goddess --

A delightful exhibit which nourished my imagination and soul! Time well spent indeed. Thanks for the heads up, Boud!

Halloween CATerwauling With HRH

SprAyTAN and Aunt Tifa

Thursday Art Date With Rain -- "Fog"

Here's my contribution for this week's

 Thursday Art Date With Rain --

While I appreciate looking at picturesque scenery

as much as the next person, I don't enjoy

doing landscapes in art. It just doesn't capture

my interest or imagination like portraits and figures do.

Consequently, I rarely post any landscapes

of mine since they all look pretty uninspired.

But I actually do like this one from a 

watercolour class last year, so here it is.

Just pretend some of that atmospheric stuff

hanging around/above the shoreline is fog, okay?

I'm not really sure what the hell it's supposed to be.

[Artwork © Debra She Who Seeks, 2024]

Why, Yes, About This I AM a Judgmental Bitch. SUE ME.

Quality Viewing

Since I can't drive or read a lot until my eyes finish healing and I can get new glasses, I'm sticking close to home these days, mainly just watching a lot of TV and movies. Here's the most interesting things I've seen so far --

1. An Unexpected Recorder Sighting

As a hardcore recorder nerd, imagine my surprise to see Cyndi Lauper playing a recorder during her performance of She Bop in her recent TV special A GRAMMY Salute To Cyndi Lauper: Live From The Hollywood Bowl.  It was the highlight of the whole show for me, actually, so I snapped this photo off my TV set for posterity! You go, girl! The world needs more recorder music!

2. Vatican Hijinks

I finally got around to watching the 2024 movie Conclave and let's just say that I LOVED the ending! LOVED IT! Hahahahaha! Those of you who have seen it, you know why!

3. A Literature-Obsessed Cop

On my sister's recommendation, I binge-watched Annika, a two-season Scottish cop series streaming on PBS Passport. Annika analyzes every murder via a relevant piece of beloved literature in an ongoing monologue delivered directly to us, the viewers, breaking the fourth wall. In fact, she regularly takes us into her confidence in such "asides," revealing her thoughts, doubts and vulnerabilities. Highly recommended!

4. Beat Era Queerness

Also finally watched the 2024 movie Queer, with star turns by Daniel Craig as a fictionalized version of the postmodern Beat author-addict William S. Burroughs and Lesley Manville as a dangerous jungle doctor who is an ayahuasca shaman/researcher. I enjoyed the first half of the movie but it dragged in the more far-out last half. Good gay sex scenes though. OH, DANIEL!