Bi
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Much is lost about the women’s medicine societies of pre reservation Lakota culture, and what survives is kept private. There’s a small amount of information available about the Double Woman (DW) society. Briefly, a vision of DW grants recipients with an high level of talent in traditional skills, especially quilling and tanning. DW dreamers endow their creations with the power of dream and vision. They were (and are) gifted healers and strong, doing the same work as a man. Like men endowed with Elk medicine, DW dreamers have the power of seduction and are perceived as different from other women. DW dreamers (DWD) were sometimes lesbian, living with other women in the manner of husband and wife. This relationship might have been short or long term. If the individual’s vision changed she’d leave the relationship and entered a more traditional one, and her choice was honored by the people. While some say this was limited to DWD, I think acceptance and tolerance was practiced throughout the culture and not restricted to this society alone. / / DWD are associated with Iktomi and Elk Dreamers, men possessing the Elk Medicine. All were powerful, sexually charismatic, potent, untamed, unpredictable, and dangerous. Half of DW’s face is beautiful, the opposite side hidious. After seducing the man, DW would turn the ugly side of her face toward him and the shock drove him crazy. She’d then transform into a black tailed deer and bound away. Sexual contact was fatal to the man, who lost his mind or pined away after she left him. The DW spirit and those who dream of her may possess people standing too close to them, and DW herself can seen and heard around rocky cliffs. Her voice might be heard at night, and her feet make sounds like bones clicking, hoofs or bugs rattling, bears shuffling, and small stones knocking together. She was used as a boggy to frighten children into obeying. Like deer she hears over great distances, its tough keeping secrets from her. DW sends birthing, stomach and menstral cramps to women, and colic to babies, while DWD can cure the same conditions. DW has influence over fruits of all kinds and can send stomach pains to those who eat them. DWD are midwives and treat women’s health, reproductive conditions, gastro intestinal, urinary and lower intestinal areas. DW appears in a vision or dream as two women holding hands or a rope from which a small white dog, ball, or doll is suspended; this image may be seen beaded or painted on old pipe bags and traditional dresses and was also part of a ceremony preformed by DW society members. DW represents dualistic answers to a single question, often oracular. A DWD is gifted at whatever creative endeavor she undertakes. A fertile, wild woman untamed by man or society, she’s her own mistress. As such, she also represents the forces capable of upsetting society and its boundaries. Every creature and symbol in this painting connects to this archetype and women. The last time I had this image on RB I included some of the meanings but this time Ive told more about the archtype herself. Text and image copyright Helena Nelson – Reed, please dont use without permission.
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first experiment of a series of illustrations on skateboard decks. bi is her name. / she wonders if she can fly.. / she believes she can.. / as she has in her dreams.. work unfinished… still in progress bi is her name ..........
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My 2 y.o. and 4 y.o. holding hands Nikon D80, Nikkor 55-200mm lens, auto focus, auto mode October 2008 Featured in the “Beauty of the Bi-Racial” group.
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tolerance is the true winner here
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bi is her name. she wonders if she can fly.. / she believes she can.. / as she has in her dreams.. bi is her name .....
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bi is her name. / she wonders if she can fly.. / she believes she can.. / as she has in her dreams.. bi is her name .....
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After feeling either / or Cleo has entered in to another realm; complete manic detachment everything is enriched, imbued. Although everyone else is quite concerned she has reached a euphoric state, people are reaching in to drag her back, she cant afford to hear them, she has found the 2% of her mind the others can’t…and to her its close to heaven.
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Water colour paint, ink, charcoal and collage.
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need your suggestions… had her hand drawn to touch the frog… / looked anatomically uncomfortable, so erased it. / now it feels empty.. the frog is her prince : ) / his name… mac should i redraw the hand? enlarge to view… .
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My Lust
by shall...your fingers draw masterpieces on my body, / wetting my skin and my apetite, ...
Lust.. love…oh the power!
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Sometimes a soft wind blows / and scatters the very fragments of you life all over the page.. / and sometimes, if you are very lucky, someone comes to you / and helps you to put the picture back together again. It may be a different picture, / but who’s to say its not equally beautiful.. and occassionally even more so!
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Ex-Musée des Monuments Français = Cité de l’Architecture & du patrimoine, Paris. September 28th, 2008.
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Acrobatic bi-plane flying low in front of wall of fire HDR Images / Prague Images / Aviation Related Images
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I think it says it all! Isn’t it? / Shorter Version for Prints & Cards! My gallery is Copyright © Wandering Soul. All rights reserved. / All the materials contained in my gallery may not be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my written permission. My images do not belong to the public domain. / Please read the Etiquette Policy and respect it! / Modifying, tubing, cropping, using it for letters or stationeries, layouts, backgrounds, stock, copyrighting, stealing my work is not only against the law but unethical. / Altaring or using without express written permission is stealing. View More ART here!
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1.2 Mtrs Square / Original ink on canvas / $700 + GST / Prints available in limited edition signed by the artist.
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A SYMBOL OF LOVE.
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tolerance is the true winner here
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When I see you touch yourself… it blows my mind.. when I see you…
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I think it says it all! Isn’t it?
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I think it says it all! Isn’t it? / Shorter Version for Prints & Cards! My gallery is Copyright © Wandering Soul. All rights reserved. / All the materials contained in my gallery may not be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my written permission. My images do not belong to the public domain. / Please read the Etiquette Policy and respect it! / Modifying, tubing, cropping, using it for letters or stationeries, layouts, backgrounds, stock, copyrighting, stealing my work is not only against the law but unethical. / Altaring or using without express written permission is stealing. View More ART here!
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