Deanne McKeown
SONGS OF ANCIENT WISDOM BELL
This piece is loosely based on the ancient nine-day Dine (Navajo) healing ceremony undertaken to relieve and sustain those stricken with disease, sorrow or loss. In a larger sense, this is meant to re-harmonize and reorder the natural world. The songs that comprise this ceremony number many hundreds and are very potent and beautiful.
I have not intended to trespass in any way on beliefs or the beauty of ceremony - only to honor tradition and human awe in the wonder of the universe, and the intrinsic power of words.
Happily, on a trail of pollen,
may I walk.
As it was long ago, may I walk.
May it be beautiful before me.
May it be beautiful behind me.
May it be beautiful below me.
May it be beautiful above me.
May it be beautiful all around me.
In Beauty may I walk,
In Beauty if is finished
The piece available in the gallery has an organic shape wooden base.
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