Incantation, Incantation Wooden Floor Rabbit Sublimation, 2010 (122cm x 61cm, acrylic on wood)
In most cultural beliefs the butterfly is a symbol of transformation, usually in the context of a soul or spirit. Feathers also translate across cultural beliefs as symbols of spiritual (soul) evolution and ascension.
In Egyptian Ma'at, the Egyptian goddess of justice, would weigh the hearts of the newly dead in the underworld against the weight of a feather to determine the worthiness of his or her soul….Feathers were worn by Native American chiefs to symbolize their communication with Spirit, and to express their celestial wisdom…
Rabbits, as symbols, have several meanings all having lunar qualities. Here the rabbit’s lunar energy serves as a psychopomp, a person, creature, or spirit who conducts spirits or souls to the other world.
Rabbit is well at home here on the earthly plane, of course. But he is also an Adept, comfortable in the Netherworld of underground tunnels and dark passages. His acute perception makes him sensitive to vibrations and energies that we often cannot comprehend. But in the “Underworld,” those sensitivities are even more pronounced as sight is reduced to nil.
Beneath the butterflies and the feather, below the rabbit (transporter/psychopomp) is the wooden floor (the terrestrial plane). Subterrestrial, buried underneath the wooden floor are the remains: teeth, bones and writings.
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