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Category Archives: Mythology

14
Nov 2014

Roger Williamson Newsletter Two

Number Two 2014 Welcome to the Roger Williamson Art Newsletter. New Paintings 2014 New Items Howling at the Sky: Draconian Architecture and the Sabian Keys Dance for Kali Clothing, Bags and Pillows Dance for Kali featuring the image from my 2012 oil painting. A woman assumes the god form of Kali. She does this to manifest the Goddesses’ personality within herself so that she may be empowered by her. To channel and amplify this she dances before the yantra of Kali, the goddesses’ signature which is used like a talisman in the Western Magical Tradition.  The skulls represent epochs of time both past […]
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Nov 2014

Pagan Art, Dance For Kali: A Review

Kali, Time, Pagan Art Without the Pentagram Goddess Kali Time, Posted by Steven Posch on Tuesday, 04 November 2014 Anyone who thinks of contemporary pagan art as the preserve of the fey, the twee, or the technically improficient needs to get his (or her) butt down to the Minneapolis Collective of Pagan Artists’ Samhain 2014 exhibit, Doorways to the Underworld, stat. There she (or he) will encounter confident, conceptually mature work by artists fully in command of their respective media. All this without pentagrams. Well, there’s one, but on that, more later. Anglo-American painter Roger Williamson’s A Dance for Kali […]

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Nov 2014

Dante Beatrice Inferno

Dante Beatrice Inferno Dante Beatrice Inferno is set in 1960s England, 1962, on Wednesday night, in the Orchid Ballroom. I am here with Virgil, a friend I knew from school.  He left the previous year.  I am still there, so he knows everything, or so he and I think at the time, about the greater world and its secrets.  He is my guide as I attain the limit of the night. It is set in 1960s England, 1962, on Wednesday night, in the Orchid Ballroom. I am here with Virgil, a friend I knew from school.  He left the previous […]

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Oct 2014

Waiting For Dante, Beatrice At The Inferno

 Waiting For Dante, Beatrice At The Inferno Waiting for Dante,  Beatrice at the Inferno is set in 1960’s England. 1962, Wednesday night, the Orchid Ballroom. I am here with Virgil, a friend I knew from school.  He  left the previous year.  I am still there, so he knows everything or, so he and I think at the time, about the greater world and its secrets.  He is my guide as I attain to the limit of the night. The entrance to the night is a cavern of the new order loud, bright and exciting, a cacophony of chaotic sensory overload, […]

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Oct 2014

Atavistic

Atavistic Memories or Palimpsest Oil on wood, 48 inches by 24 inches,2014. Buy the original from Saatchi Art Atavistic Memories depicts a male human figure in the throes of recalling the tracks of his heritage back to the dawn of time. In displaying numerous characteristics from these epochs, he evokes the behavior and mannerisms of each in the present. The phenomenon is in harmony with shamanism, psychedelic experiences, creative dreaming and transformational psychology. First shown at Doorways to the Underworld exhibition, Stevens Square Center for the Arts, October 25th 2014 For related information see Dream Language Atavism is the tendency to revert to […]

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Sep 2014

The Vodoun Spirit

The Vodoun Spirit Vodoun Spirit, while on a visit to Haiti in the late 1980’s, I happened to be in a market selling locally carved wooden images of Vodoun deities and animals.  As is typical, all were painted in brilliant colors, except for one which really stood out. I purchased the unpainted carving which became the model for this painting. There is more to this story because a friend who was with me purchased two of the painted statues.  At the end of our trip, my friend returned to England and I came home to Minneapolis. About a year later I was in […]

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Aug 2014

Gone to Earth

Gone to Earth Gone-to-Earth, is an oil on canvas symbolic painting, 48 inches by 24 inches. Original painting available from Saatchi Art Gone to earth is to enter our inner being, where we become  empowered through contact with our ancestral roots, nourished by the avatar of our power animal.  It is, the healing place. Conversely, to retreat from what we see as the dangers of the world into a secret lair. To go away to a place where people will not be able to find you . Featured as Princess of Earth in Tarot of the Morning Star deck

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Jan 2014

Greek Pandora Anesidora

Greek Pandora Anesidora Greek Pandora Anesidora. Oil on wood panel, 96 inches by 48 inches, 2013.  Price on request. Greek Pandora Anesidora, in English Pandora meaning she who sends up gifts, is a title of the Greek Pandora.   It is she who releases man’s opportunities, the challenges we need to overcome so we might grow, from the vase given to her by the Gods. The word  actually implies “from below” meaning within the earth. This is the center panel of the triptych Fall of Man  

pandora, Anesidora from Ancient Greek mythology, An original oil painting by Minneapolis visual artist and author Roger Williamson
10
Jan 2014

Religion of Dream Dreaming

Abducted by Dreams or The Religion of Dream If we need a religion, then let it be from our own inner reality.  Let it be our Religion of Dream. The Religion of Dream is not a doctrine but a practice: to honour the subconscious as our primal temple. Here, symbols replace scriptures, and the act of creation becomes prayer. This is a faith without hierarchy, where every dreamer is both disciple and deity. Abducted by Dreams Oil on canvas, 24 inches by 20 inches, 2010 See Magick Original painting of Abducted by Dreams available at Saachi Art Roger Williamson visual […]

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