BA FLIGHT 38

merino from bride flight studios
4 oz


Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

If ever there were a visionary poet, and one who sought to become a channel through which a vision could manifest, it would be W.B. Yeats. Much of his work concerned itself with building a bridge between matter and spirit, and finding signposts along the road to that bridge that belong to the Spiritus Mundi, a close relative of Jung's collective unconscious. He is always looking for the symbol, in its most ancient sense, which can be found in the Greek root "symbolon"; an object broken into two parts, which want to be reunited into a single entity.

Inspired by one of his more terrifying poems, a vision of the violence and aftermath of the first World War, and one that unfortunately remains timeless: scarlet, deep burgundy, blackened purple, orange, and sand.

finn from bride flight studios
4 oz

"Also known as the Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi was one of the elite priestesses of ancient Greece; almost always a noble and educated woman, she was chosen from among the priestesses of the temple of Apollo to become his voice on earth, renouncing all of her earthly commitments and pleasures. The oracle was also a woman with unusual power
within patriarchal Greek society--she was free from taxation, able to own property and attend public events, and was paid and housed by the state in comfortable fashion. Her prophecy, interpreted by her attendant priests for the benefit of her many supplicants, was acknowledged as both authoritative and mysterious; the citizens of Greece traveled from far and wide to receive her answers.

Inspired by Michelangelo's fresco of the Delphic Oracle, from the Sistine ceiling: terra-cotta, sandy orange, soft gold, grey-green, and blued lilac."