Rise and Root
Rima Staines is a wonderful British artist who keeps an incredibly interesting blog about her life, her paintings and her thoughts. Whilst she is not a prolific blogger, with Rima, it's all about quality and not quantity. My only criticism is that the comments left on her blog are incredibly 'gushing', but maybe that's a reflection of the love people have for her and her work? In her latest post , she talks about a dream and how she saw a symbol which she interpreted as an Ogham symbol. This led her onto creating the above image 'Rise & Root'. Both the images and the words are incredibly powerful for me: Rise : against blandness, shopping, concrete, conformity, the pricetag on your days. Root : in beauty, wild imagination, black earth, stories, otherness, your old heart. I've blogged briefly about Ogham symbols here: http://earthgazer.blogspot.com/2009/10/hawthorn.html Rima wants the ' Rise & Root ' image to be shared far and wide,