FROM OUR JOURNAL PAGES:Bonfires
40 x 40 acrylic on canvas
peg: Bonfires in Belfast have served as flash points for violence and competition for many years. In the painting, the Bonfire also resembles a storm, dangerous but intriguing. We often watched an incoming storm from behind barbed wire. The gathering storm on the horizon wasn't always a meteorological event.
chuck: Our time spent in Ireland and Northern Ireland has put us in the middle of the ancient Celtic culture. While I have much to learn about its history and intimacies, I find myself drawn to its spirituality and the land that gave birth to it. There is a yearly event in Belfast where they light Bonfires, fires that stretch for two city blocks or more. The fire has its primitive roots embedded in our souls, it was a source of heat for warmth and food and became a gathering place for ancient communities to share stories. Perhaps in the gathering of an ancient ritual a new story of community, living in peace, can rise up.
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