Mythic Portals   ( Thumbnail View • Enlarged View )

	Island Of Time Stone Riley Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 24 inches, framed as shown. Is this the shore of Far Hesperides where Hercules was sent to labor? Perhaps one of the fabled Western Isles among which famous Irish mariners would wander? Perhaps some other Eden than we’ve heard a tale? Is that a ship at sail? Is that a sunset or a dawn? Is dark night passing by or coming on? Here at some mythic threshold stands an emblem from an old Welsh tale: A tree still leafed in green and yet aflame. Among its boughs some red bird or bloom or fruit denotes the beating heart's desire. If I may tell the world a bit of secret things, this painting is the memory of magical initiations, as acolyte and then initiator. To those who have experienced this, a poem may suffice for further explanation. The High Priest This endless eddied world of surge and flow may here and there forget to know that it is All but dreams instead that it is You or I. Yet in each heart will ever lie the soul's deep pool, the porphyry bowl of lotus wine, the self-dissolving sigh, so to my lips the endless draught you pour. When I have drunk and bathed and drowned and sunk beneath the waves I've found my self somehow composed once more and lifted to a sunlit shore where wind-soaked flesh and bony core become an echoing ocean sound. So now the eyes within my head look round surprised to see both You and I with callused feet on stony ground still at unbounded ocean's edge immersed in flowing sky. Want to read more? www.stoneriley.com/TOMW.html Or the home website: www.stoneriley.com
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