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"Live Autopsy" (Abstract Acrylic on Canvas 48"x60") Brander McDonald 1990

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I bathed myself in process” - Brander Raven - Feb 2024

I bathed myself in process… i refused the mechanistic planning… i gave myself to Spirit… i was long tired of the longing and the unforgiving slog of resurrecting “faith”... So i sat down in the ashes again to start with little coals to call my own… with little breath i blew… nothing… i entered into nothingness and found Spirit staring at me… with a knowing look instigating breath work… with Spirit breath in my heart lungs i drew coals to embers and then to flame… the process… I bathed myself in process… to daydream and watch the falling away of flesh and bone… to stolen dreams and dashing of self knowledge and exuberance of passion for creativity… i was long tired of looking at the naysayers at the door… and my weakness to push past the self hatred stemming from fears of failure and even the need for recompense… so with the waters most frigid i gave myself to process… I bathed myself in process… to embrace the connections with Spirit before birth… to remember the conversation of ...

“Do You Remember?” - Brander Raven Feb 2024

When I was a little boy I remember talking to the trees… the winds and leaves rustling… I knew instinctively they were my peers… I knew I had come from Spirit and these were my family and relatives… I also was constantly talking to myself… now I recognize that self… that Spirit… it is the Creator's breath and consciousness in me… it represents a place of belonging that I had long abdicated… now I have become my own mirror… and I recognize the same mirrors in the eyes of a child dancer… the breath of Creator… Spirit… the dance embodied in the movement of you… spirit movement… creativity… breathing out the consciousness to manifest the knowings of Spirit at its purest and most innocent and loving… the embodiment of pure loving energy… your flow and journey coming to light watching Spirit… you are Spirit… Spirit is you… and now I too remember that little boy… your work has carved the path… and even fixated the spirit to dance… to move… to flow… can you see the winds and leaves rustl...

"No More" Brander Raven McDonald March 2024

"no more to be seen or referred to as the quintessential penultimate... the harbinger... the caustic... the mystery to be avoided... but rather the essential essence as initiator of courage... the bearer of light... the balm... the elixir to souls in search of home... to lay out the tapestry scent that Spirit is pouring native bloom for the weary to follow home... to dissolve striving... placating... relinquishing... petitioning... all vying for the means to gain advantage in the struggle... and yet finding the results in a state of wantonness and fear... the bedeviling phantom fears, abandonment, betrayal... all extinguished with one droplet of saying a final affirmation of self... and stepping through that doorway to mystic loving power... and connection to the all..."

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