Hibiscus...

ART EXHIBIT....Look for it EARLY NEXT YEAR (work is now in progress)

RELIGION, MYTH AND FANTASY

Dawn Hanna- Visual artist/ writer


'Religion, Myth and Fantasy' is a visual journey into the imagination incubating the interpretation of Dreams, Myths, story-telling, metaphor and symbols. It is about survival and the creative process. It is about dreaming...
Dreaming and visions in ancient societies were considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention, whose message could be unraveled – dreams being a message of the unconscious.
Myth is to culture what dream is to individual. It is a narrative of symbolic language from its original source ('nothingness' - chaos) and from this chaos comes the cosmic order of life and existence.
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and an influential thinker in his time. He is the founder of analytical psychology and a known pioneer in the field of dream analysis.
Jung believed that In all communities and cultures there exists Archetypes. Archetypes and symbols constitutes the structure of the collective unconscious. There is a common and collective symbolic language belonging to all cultures that are intermixed with images and dreams of the unconscious and consciousness of a breathing universe.
This Exhibit combines my individual experiences of myth and folklore to draw on dream interpretations of God, religion and the individual through a visual story- telling. This includes unique Bahamian folk traditions that have survived from Africa to slavery. However, it is an integration of Creation myths and a synthesis of many cultures. It incorporates Western Greek and Roman Epic Mythology, Judaic Christian imagery, Native American and East Indian oral traditions. Through out it there exists universal human patterns of behavior where we all share these symbols and archetypes as part of the Human family.
'Religion, Myth and Fantasy' is about life and death, destruction and rebirth- the boundary between human and divine. Our exhibit sifts through universal metaphors and archetypes as the source of all inspirations and instincts including the beautiful and spiritual.
I am a writer, performer and Visual artist and have spent the past twenty years exploring a variety of influences in creative expression from oral story-telling to the Visual arts. I am a modern abstract artist preferring the democratization of space through line, color and form to emphasize new creative freedoms. I deconstruct the narrative to affirm universal symbols and metaphor.

This Exhibit will include a mixed medium of wood, canvas, vellum (sheep and goat skin ), limestone carvings and a mechanical installation...

zen buddhism...inner peace

The Lotus flower - symbol of purity and great beauty

from nothing, everything
"Zero and infinity"

Straw lady....

Straw lady mingling
with the crowd
platting rope
selling bags
straw stretched long
from one to the other
eyes turned down
in quiet chatter
pieces of raffia
neatly sown
strands of thread
inter weave strips
scissors clip away the fray
calypso breezes
blow over bags
placed loosely on
straw stand...

Dedicated to Mrs Ambrister

Time...

infinite
as the universe
Timeless
like the sea...
caressing moments
gradually
reaching forever
unraveling everything...

Beginnings...

wiping slate clean
in head and heart
clutter
bound up
anchored to the past
rubbing away memories
recalled
in sorrow and pain
pulled taught like rope
in the mind
or a four cornered room
recessing
dancing now
with the wind...
lambent
with new beginnings...

Ocean waves

Ocean waves

water crests break
pushes over clear seas
light and dark shades
of blue and green
washed in milky white
Sun slips through
the Horizon...

PRISM...light refraction

THANKFUL...

I am thankful for the day
for what God has granted
I am grateful for the day
in what I have received
I fall short of grace
but God reminds me
all grace is with the creator
it brings me peace
it brings me calm
it brings me love...

TEAR DROP....

thinking of someone
long ago...
letting go
releases a single
tear drop
heart morphed
with butterfly's wings
joining souls
together
last night in a dream
within a vision
in an evening's song
meeting again
in another place
another time....
moving on now
brings joy
of moments shared
made whole again
not sliced in half
of arms and legs
one soul meeting
on another plain...
feeling love
with respect...

DREAMS....

Dreams of tomorrow
fills now with hope
and moment
with life....

SPECTRUM....

Time...

Peace and love......

lover man...

sadness like a fine
tuned piano
black and ivory keys
beat to the strum
of heart
falling over with tears
plucking
a piano string
gently weeping....


conceptualizing Nora Jones
a 1941 popular song by Billie Holiday
just a song I love

speak....

speak with ease
chalk with lime
body with breeze
moving the wind
in all directions...
four corners
of the earth
scattering leaves
across a pantheon
or golden arrows
shooting toward
an open sky
spreading light...

RAIN ON...

when darkness hits
over land
I dream of
a garden full of rain
drenching fruit
to the pit of seed
grass sprung high
over land
rain on...
rain on...
bird's song sung
through crystal light
drops
into lakes
full of plenty....

Long day...

long days still ahead..
time to unlock
rest
my
mind
by the sea shore
by the bay
coffee or tea
some times hot
makes me angry
not for
long...
after the day

BIRTH OF CREATION