Wild Icons (The Eloquent Curve) by Poppy Palin
This set of images celebrates our unfailing connection, as spirits incarnate in human form, to all creation. Each untamed 'icon' captures, for a glorious moment, the truly holistic nature of being, and the seamless dance of the dream of life.
These images are a spontaneous response to the poetry and mystery of existence from the artist as a woman and as a green-spirited representative of the ceaselessly generous, overwhelmingly powerful, Earth Mother.
Each image strives to express something of the perfection witnessed in the symmetry and the endless grace of nature... be that in the shape of a limb, taut and sprung on an unseen riddle of muscle and sinew, or in the lilting melody of a leaf's fall.
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Over and over I have aimed to replicate the lyricism and astonishing eloquence of the curves and spirals of the Earth's bounty whilst knowing such transient perfection can never quite be held down. Such is the ceaseless ebb and flow of energy that animates all creation! Yet still I have striven to show the subtle, devastating interplay of hue and shade, space and form, and I willed a little of the dynamism inherent in this wonderful, wayward world to give these images life beyond that which is two dimensional. I knew I could never match the effortless glory of the Creator whilst knowing I too had to create. To witness and to celebrate in line and tone.
It is my hope that the joy and yearning, the tender and the terrible aspects of being, be found somewhere in the interchange of colour and contour here. These are, if nothing else, living icons of the divine wild, filled with honour.
