I wrote this about 20 years ago…I can’t tell you my motivation or how it connects with the image of the Owl I was drawing. Still, it seems clearly me and affirms that I can be a little dramatic…and it’s too bad that I do not remember more about the connection here…and that my connection to drawing and painting First Nation art has also been lost. Perhaps though…it’s discovery is a form of rediscovery for me…and this makes me smile.
“As she talked I witnessed her delicate balance in her of physical timidity and sensual imagination…the first would make the man attracted to her initially, the second had condemned him when it came to the point – all of which gave her a genuinely nymph like quality. This women did quite literally free the man and invite him on. There was a wild animal in her, but a true wild animal – intensely suspicious of wrong moves of too obvious attempts to tame. She set little boundaries, almost like snares, to see if one understood, behaved, advanced, withdraw…all as she wanted. Yet beyond it all I naively foresaw an eventual place without boundaries, where she would all me anything. Sadly, I was wrong and unknowingly forbidden to even tempt her. Like the Owl she was destined to be always wild…our fate was sealed by my confusion and her seeming innocence.”
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Lawrence Lewis
About Lawrence Lewis
I do a number of things professionally...but most of all and the true purpose of what I do through "my work" is to provide for my family, be a good husband and great father, and try to make a difference as a world citizen...I guess it's not much more complicated than that 🙂