Annie B's eddy: October 2023

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

"White Buffalo Woman Dancing*
Annie B.Siemer
2021

My Art ....reposted

"Red Oaks"
Watercolor Leaf Print
Annie B. Siemer

Women don’t endure simply because we can; no, women endure because we aren’t given any other choice. – They wanted us weak but forced us to be strong.”

– Amanda Lovelace, in The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Eddy spits up another old collage....

This is one of many collages I made while doing respite here in Florida the Fall of 2009 through the spring of 2010. In many ways that time was very productive for me The Creative regarding collages done with old magazines picked up in/from laundry mats and The Friends of Dunnellon Library collection.

Many of those contained profound predictions of the near future ( and UM now ) and alongside this one being deeply spiritually symbolic for me personally, many elements of it...some unseen on its edges....foretold the passing on of my little brother Patrick.

The Hopi Symbolism is obvious, the view into the Other Side is actually a rare color photo by Ansel Adams, with touches of St.Germaine. My art will always be a mirror (albeit possibly cracked) of the places in which I live.

It remains to be one of my all time favorite collages and well having an online book called an Eddy gives me license to remember, forget and repost...for an Eternity. I don't look much like my photo to the right , an early selfie from 2010.... a lot of grief and (PTSD,COVID, addiction) has been healed via art supplies and THIS LAND !

And for that. I will be eternally Grateful.

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Remnants

"My Mom the Photographer"

Patrick's Garden

Photo of Downtown Brown's Engine
By Larry the Vwdude

'Round here....

Historic Church - Dunnellon, Florida
Modified Photo
Annie B.Siemer

As the Crow Flies...

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Bloodroot

"alike yet different"

Watercolor Leaf Print

Annie B.Siemer

2003

This is a leaf print watercolor I made during my stint as the first Interpretive Naturalist at McCloud Nature Center in West Central Indiana, the summer of 2003.

It is one of my all-time favorite healing plants, and the first time I ever saw it in the wild, a colony showed itself to me somewhere near Walker Valley in what is now called Great Smoky Mountains National Park , the summer of 2000.

So very much has happened since then. This piece is called "alike yet different" and it was painted for a person that I thought I was in love with...at the time.

We Are All Alike Yet Different. May Bloodroot and All of the Other Healing Plants help us bring us back to ourselves.