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JOURNEY OF THE HAND-TOUCHED by Brigitia Wood "'Journey of the Hand-Touched' is one of my more unusual pieces... the imagery is what gives it a paranormal edge. The overall theme is transformation, especially the kind that develops from going into your own subconscious and emerging with a new sense of self." -- Birgitia Wood A hand, long fingernails pointed upwards, pink crusts flaking on those fingernails, and I cannot help but touch them with my bare, calloused fingertips. With a brief wink, silently flashing, I am gone and into a world torn apart by tempests, hurricanes fleeing, monsoons ravaging, and I am a wind like them, spilling and burning, drinking and seething, leaving poetıs teeth in an apple core, leaving scratches on a barn roof, trailing blood across a nation of short, heavy creatures with bowed heads and roots for legs. I dip into a sea of tranquil green. Here, seaweed wrapped, my limbs are flung out and my tongue is swollen. I am black-eyed, short-breathed goddess staring at the sun. I am barnacle-encrusted, coral-fingered creature home. I am here, pulled down in solid, sizzling emptiness, my hands spread to the sides where they can feel A world caged in but boundless within its bars. Floating upwards, breathing down, bubbles of tiny torn claws shaking firm ectoplasm of delight. The Ground Shell Mother beats a blasting tune on a cone that once held life--bleats further still into the ears of a murmuring dragon, a carp-scaled, camel-faced, wingless dragon, eel-swaying and hawk-preying talons on the leopard-padded feet. Into the ears and mind of a dragon, with breath of bubble steam, where fire can enter water and see the life cringe back into empty, pearl-white shells. To see horns beating on the door and a sign: "Cave of Answers--Out to Lunch". To break and burst against a rusted lock and know the pain of blundering futility. Strip down, cast away this mask--it lies in a whorl of yellow and green on sand stained blue with light. It lies in a field of crushed pearls and broken diamonds - and my once sensitive fingers, now barnacle laden, reach up to touch the surface and watch it break. İ2000, Brigitia Wood. All Rights Reserved. Visit her web site on Occult Symbolism. Contribute Artwork to the Paranormal Bohemian |