For a week or so every January or February I am hard at work with a now familiar creative task. Since 1993, I have created a design to celebrate the Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Celtic Roots Festival. This is number 17 in the series. A slide show of the all of the work is available on the Celtic Festival website.
In getting started I am guided by the four elements that take form as human or animal. Sometimes there is a theme that needs expressing. This year speaks of "the scattering" of Celtic people throughout the world. I started with the image of a house and gave it the wings of the geese to suggest a house taking flight. The roof suggests furrows in a field, making reference to scattering and taking root.
The animals, ox, goose, dragons feeding the hearth and the fish all speak to me of home in Huron County a place where many found themselves after scattering. Lake Huron and the agricultural land continue to be a valuable resource and a part of our natural heritage.
And so, the act of scattering becomes taking root in a new place called home.
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