Vision of a rabbit lake surrounded by a rich ochre terrain from an elevation of 3km
NT, Australia
Rabbit blue lake in middle of OZ
Despite being the Year of the Rabbit, bunnies weren’t really on my radar, having already done a feature post on the refined rabbit. Recently, while indulging in an arial landscape foray for gong shi exploration, I had a chance sighting of an intruiging rabbit lake in the centre of Australia. It was in an auspicious location due to its proximity to Mount Wedge and Pupanya (origin of Indiginous Aussie Art from bark to canvas). This acted as a visual catalyst that motivated me to take a closer look into the Rabbit Year
As this year is associated with the Water Rabbit, which only comes every 60 years, the last time this happened was in 1963, right on the cusp of an era of cultural and artistic revolution.The Water Rabbit arouses artistic fluidity, creative virility, feminine flexibility, moderation, balance and moving with the flow.
At this time the Beach Boys were launching their breezy Surf Music mania and wave motion imagery was becoming very popular. Even ocean symbolic, shark fin designs were appearing as a frequent feature on most cars cruising around in the sixties. The bold sea sail architectural statement of the Sydney Opera House was also opened in 1963.
Miro, Jackson Pollock, Guido Gambone, Robert Crumb and numerous artists had introduced a freewheeling flow and spirit in their works, emboldened by a carefree abandon. So many shackles were suddenly shed, releasing an irrestistable spirit of freedom which kept expanding along with the far reaching musical innovation and genre fusion unleashed from Coltrane, Hendrix, The Beatles, Miles Davis and countless others in this artistically fertile decade.
Vivid light festival projected onto sails of Sydney Opera House
The currently unique combination of the Water Rabbit, the emergence of Neptune and the beginning of a new Jupiter Grand Transit (2020) is a potent mix for spiritual illumination. I’m now anticipating a new phase of cultural expansion and creativity becoming imminent. I don’t beleive we can assimilate another ride as wild as the last time but I feel there will be a more nurturing component of rejuvination, creative healing, sustanence and preservation.
Enjoy this collection inspired by rabbits, feminifience, calming beauty, ochre orange, trippy blue palletes, ethereal spontaneous flow and good fortune.
Wavy hair, flowing dresses, Boho Chic, all in the essemce of the peace loving Water Bunny
Vintage drip glaze vessel from Vallauris
Tchalenko floral bowl
Kelly Daniels ceramic cups
Jose de Rivera vintage sculpture
Alfajar Ceramica Pequeno Formato Alcuza — Small Flask
Flamboyant vintage orange and white striped vase
Rabbit and Chrysanthemum Flower Suiseki/GongShi stone
Art Nouveau fluttering butterfly vase — Stephanie Young
Annie Thomas Burke — mosaic panel
SpanishAlfajar — expressive female face vessels
Agnes Weinrich — ‘Woman With Flowers’
1920
Anelise Bredow vintage inspired vases
Afrofuturism Collages of Kaylan
Danseuse de flamenco — Isabelle Tuchband
Brasil
St Albans Pottery, UK
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri — ‘Honey Art Dreaming’
1987
Clifford Possum was an artist of early dot painting activity at Pupunya. His Honey Art Dreaming was featured on the Australian Five Dollar Silver coin.
Vase Sirene — Jean Derval
1960
An interpretation of indigenous dot painting by French artist Melissa Gougeon
Bob Illes — female sculpture
Sue Tirrell Black Rabbit Star Plate — ‘A bunny Ba Qua’
2019
‘Portal to another time and place’ — Deborah Halpern
5 hand painted nesting doll birds created by Aussie Indigenous artist Leah Brown
Isabelle Tuchband
Banksia Coccinea flowering in Stirling Range National Park
photo Terry Dunham
Flowers of Edo Young Womans Narrative Chanting to the Shamisen
Monty Don’s ‘Gardens of Venice’
M.Montedoro Art Deco postcard
1920’s
Irina Charmy – ‘Pony’
Lake Titicaca, Puma chasing a Rabbit — The Sacred Lake of the Incas
Natasha Dikareva— Third Eye Poodle
Compressed Spiny Oyster and Mojave Turquoise— Medicine Bear Zuni Fetish
Eastern Grey Kangaroo in habitat
Carolyn Genders
Georges Braque — ‘Little Harbor in Normandy’
1909
Alexander Archipenko — ‘Arabian’
1936
Sea Dragon
‘Serpent Rising’ — Alexander Calamei
— “This dot art piece was inspired during the time of 12/12 /2020 as it was a pinnacle time due to many stars aligning in our solar system and the dormant energy of the serpent under Uluru rising again. Mother earth is changing and she is waking up in many areas on the planet and Uluru. The centre is the Emotional Chakra of the Earth, waking the dormant serpent to assist with clearing trauma within the consciousness for healing humanity.” — Alexander Calamei
Rising serpent ariel landscape capture
Northern NT
IaRex lAtelier International Artists Residency Exchange
France
Waylande Gregory — ‘Europa and the Bull’
ca. 1934. Earthenware
Christine Brallier — mosaic blue cat
2023 is also Year Of Cat
Lynn Smier Bowers
‘Kangpigeon’ earthenware with glazes and enamels – Jenny Orchard
Delinquent Children exhibition
‘Dragon and Waves’ 1827
The Yang Dragon is also a polarisation of the Yin Rabbit and their luck. The Water Rabbit is the luckiest sign in the Chinese zodiac calender.
Smithsonian
Erte — ‘Wings of Victory’
1978
‘Women Knowledge Gatherers’ — Alexander Calamei
Yowna Gwion – Kimberley rock art
13000BC
Hellenistic terracotta vase — Centuripe, Sicily
My visiting Huntsman spider promoting the amber vibe
Kumakura Junkischi
Laura Bird — running naked green woman vessel
Magical iconic Australian grass tree attracts fairies according to folklore.
Painted Plate Dudley Vaccianna
Buste Feminin en papier mache – dédé
Centrotevola in terraccotta Jean Cocteau
Italian Pottery- Bowl — Fratelli Fanciullacci
Mata Ortiz Pottery Sgraffito Olla — Lazaro Ozuna Silveira
Chinese Handmade Ceramic Red Blue White Dimensional Dragon Vase
Corinna Maguire – lucky octopus cake
Eight legged creatures like the octopus and the spider (and their web) are worthy of contemplation because they can guide you beyond entrapement from your deep past. The intricate webs and tentacles being symbolic of the entanglement that can bind us. That’s why traditionally they are known to free emotional and creative blocks. As a new era of inner freedom is now emerging, its a great time for some serious release.
Porcelain Koi relief teapot — China Qing Zeit 1644–1911
Dresden Zwinger museum
Edward C. Curtis photo
1905
Alfajar –nude figure flask
Barocco — Richard Tarone And Jacques Massard — ‘Europa, Pan And Dionysis’
1995
French Art Deco Colonial Vase
Imiso ceramics Africasso vessel
Jean Arp sculpture
Joely Clinkard — Small Red Spring Stroll Vessel
Rene Buthaud large plate
Michael Kay circus riders
Reaching Out — recent image from the James Webb Telescope
Rabbit Island, Valsanzibio garden, Italy
During the Venice plague of the 1630’s, Giovani Barbarigo made a vow to the Divine that if his family survived, he would create a grand garden at Valsanzibio.
Monty Don
Large cobalt ground Satsuma vase
MaPo Kinnord — ‘Cosmic key’
Ren Buthaud French Art Deco ceramic vase with nude figures
Richard Erdman
Sophie MacCarthy
Cruising whale rider
Maureen Minchin jug
Longwy Figural Ceramic Vase, Longwy France
Circa 1930
Les Namingha pottery
Moon gazing hare
Palais Bulles, France
Rudy Autio
Lively, large blue dragon teapot
French Art Nouveau vase with floral relief
Ryuichi Kakurezakis sake bottle
6 in. 15 cm in height – stoneware. 2015
photo George Bouret
Mykonos inventive pottery display wall
Stephanie Young – ceramic vessels set
Lucien Koonces — Tokkuri — 5½ in. 14 cm in height, stoneware 2015
photo George Boure
Rebecca Zweibel ceramic ‘Boat’
Steve Bicknell abstract dancers sculpture
Satsuma Plate with three dragons in low relief
Japan
Everest base camp
Herbie Hancock and his Shelby Cobra
( built in Venice California. USA)
The bunny luck was working for Herbie in 1963 (Rabbit Year) when he acquired this Cobra car on a whim in NY for $6000, with money from his paycheck from his huge hit ‘Watermelon Man’. He had also just recorded a song called King Cobra, which he described as an attempt to “expand the flow [of jazz tunes and chords] so that it would go in directions beyond the usual” This was the beginning of his expanding journey into fusion music that also included building the Funk genre in the 70’s. He still owns the Cobra, currently worth 2 $million.
The Beach Boys with Ray Charles — ‘Sail On, Sailor’
Masters of Harmony meeting the Master of Soul, 25th Beach Boys Anniversary Tour, 1987
‘Free’ – Prince, Larry Graham, Chaka Khan, Graham Central Station
Boom Crash Opera — ‘The Best Thing’
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