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Rabbit
9.5" x 12.5"
Acrylic and
Gold Leaf on Paper
2008

The rabbit has played an important part in my life, signaling change. Every time I start seeing a lot of rabbits and dreaming about rabbits, something in my life is going to alter, and this is the way I am prepared for it.

When thinking of the colonization of the Americas by the Europeans, I can't help but remember my forebears on my mother's side: the Vikings.

The Norse men and women also believed strongly in signs and wisdom from the animal world, and so I painted this in memory of one who might have been a great grandmother from hundreds and hundreds of years ago.

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Pisiskow Acahkwak
animal spirits

I did this series of five paintings with the animal totems that lead us forefront in my mind. Each figure has two totems in their field, the primary one with the single, all-seeing eye, and the secret one that they keep in their hearts, the one that whispers.

This can be interpreted in many different ways, one of which could be seen as the clan totem and the personal totem. Another viewpoint could focus on the animal spirit that guides our life as the larger totem, and the animal spirit that guides our moment as the smaller. Both of these ideas are correct, and in fact, as many more as can be conceived would work. This is the strength and power of symbols: that they can hold as many - and as much - meaning as we can pour into them. A symbol is a vessel that can never be filled, but only grows deeper the more we add meaning to it.

In many ways, then, we can look at our own lives as symbols of something deeper.

As we are all connected, each of these paintings lead into each other until the last, which returns again to the first. Like all symbols, these paintings contain in them more than I could ever say, but in my writings, I'll maybe give us a place to start

Description
Rabbit
9.5" x 12.5"
Acrylic and
Gold Leaf on Paper
2008

The rabbit has played an important part in my life, signaling change. Every time I start seeing a lot of rabbits and dreaming about rabbits, something in my life is going to alter, and this is the way I am prepared for it.

When thinking of the colonization of the Americas by the Europeans, I can't help but remember my forebears on my mother's side: the Vikings.

The Norse men and women also believed strongly in signs and wisdom from the animal world, and so I painted this in memory of one who might have been a great grandmother from hundreds and hundreds of years ago.

-----

Pisiskow Acahkwak
animal spirits

I did this series of five paintings with the animal totems that lead us forefront in my mind. Each figure has two totems in their field, the primary one with the single, all-seeing eye, and the secret one that they keep in their hearts, the one that whispers.

This can be interpreted in many different ways, one of which could be seen as the clan totem and the personal totem. Another viewpoint could focus on the animal spirit that guides our life as the larger totem, and the animal spirit that guides our moment as the smaller. Both of these ideas are correct, and in fact, as many more as can be conceived would work. This is the strength and power of symbols: that they can hold as many - and as much - meaning as we can pour into them. A symbol is a vessel that can never be filled, but only grows deeper the more we add meaning to it.

In many ways, then, we can look at our own lives as symbols of something deeper.

As we are all connected, each of these paintings lead into each other until the last, which returns again to the first. Like all symbols, these paintings contain in them more than I could ever say, but in my writings, I'll maybe give us a place to start