{"id":300,"date":"2007-01-01T12:52:16","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T12:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2008-01-02T15:01:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T05:01:28","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/01\/01\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year, blog friends. A new year and my 300th post!<\/p>\n<p>Last night I dreamed vividly (and I mean vivid physically!) of giving birth &#8211; one of those oops-I-need-to-push, and-I&#8217;m-in-the-supermarket-and, oh-my-goodness-here-it-is! births, and then a tiny crumpled gorgeous creature cupped in my hands! (maybe because I had seen the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/specklet\/sets\/72157594204828139\/\">tiny animals on fingers photos<\/a>?)! You will have to take my word for it that it was a good dream, though, and surely its auspicious to dream of giving birth on a new year&#8217;s day, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>These are the draft drawings I did for the poster for <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2006\/12\/04\/the-moth-tree-opens-tomorrow-night\/\"><em>The Moth Tree<\/em><\/a>. I&#8217;m particularly fond of the one with the little girl in it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritsdancing.com\/extras\/mothtree.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritsdancing.com\/extras\/mothtree1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I used some chalky pastels to do this, and I always forget what lovely effects they give and how much pleasure I get from using them. I should really draw more often, just for pleasure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritsdancing.com\/extras\/mothtree2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A while ago I discovered a lovely sculpture in the ANU, <em>Winged Harvest<\/em> by Fiona Foley, which has silver bogong moths. I didn&#8217;t give them a thought when I was doing the poster, but I really think there must have been some subconscious connection going on here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7016\/874\/1600\/moths.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/blog\/mothssm.jpg\" alt=\"Mothssm\" title=\"Mothssm\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/cutflat.net\/\">Tim Raupach: Cutflat<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year, blog friends. A new year and my 300th post! Last night I dreamed vividly (and I mean vivid physically!) of giving birth &#8211; one of those oops-I-need-to-push, and-I&#8217;m-in-the-supermarket-and, oh-my-goodness-here-it-is! births, and then a tiny crumpled gorgeous creature cupped in my hands! (maybe because I had seen the tiny animals on fingers photos?)! 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