{"id":467,"date":"2023-01-08T08:11:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T20:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rudoart.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2023-01-08T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T20:12:58","slug":"transforming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rudoart.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/08\/transforming\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For a long stretch of my preteen years I thought of being a zoologist. I would collect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/nostalgia\/comments\/8pbke2\/wildlife_fact_files\/\">Wildlife Fact Files<\/a> that my wonderful parents subscribed me to. I felt the dazzling power of both order and knowledge creep into my bones. Alas, the allure of chaos, artistic whimsy, and teenager laziness won out and I lost the scientific prowess of my youth. But this watercolour and ink sketch does give me some sense of street cred, that I never lost my ability to observe the natural world and record it, interpret it, and commune. This beautiful <a href=\"https:\/\/kids.britannica.com\/students\/article\/Blood-python\/310273\">python<\/a> caught my attention as I image searched for the perfect snake to draw. I knew I wanted a blood red circle behind it&#8230;red is such a potent colour that to me conjures life and death cycles, earthly power, and rites of passage mostly commonly found in women&#8217;s rituals. Snakes are symbols of magic&#8230;and transformation&#8230;once I had a dream that I was walking through crowds of loved ones and everyone had snakes dropping out of their clothing. It was a potent vision. For some cultures, dragons take the place of snake worship&#8230;yes I feel the truth in the umbrella family of snakes and dragons even if they are slightly different tones they feel like kin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we collectively move and shift, transformations can be triggering, uncomfortable, even painful. But they&#8217;re proof of growth. They&#8217;re an indication that we are part of nature, as the ever-shifting world around us is never static neither can we be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prompts<\/strong>: what part of the transformation cycles brings you the greatest joy? Do you pay attention or just brace yourself and hold on? do you process inwardly or outwardly? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a long stretch of my preteen years I thought of being a zoologist. I would collect Wildlife Fact Files that my wonderful parents subscribed me to. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,21],"tags":[29,38],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature-art","category-watercolour-circle-sketches","tag-energy-channel","tag-tiny-drawings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/rudoart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3BBA13FB-09B5-4089-844C-18FA4F550D88.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudoart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudoart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudoart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudoart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudoart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rudoart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/rudoart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudoart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudoart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudoart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudoart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}