“Let it all be animal, my life and death, hard and clean like that, anything but human… a lot I care, me with my red heart in the dark earth and my tattooed feet following the animal ways.”
The Vali Myers Art Gallery Trust is a not for profit organisation dedicated to fostering and promoting the art of Vali Myers. It is the sole copyright holder of her work and is managed by Executive Director Ruth Cullen and Directors Nicole Karidis and Robert Yarra. www.valimyerstrust.com
ED selected excerpts from a Sacred Familiar article:
Today would have been Vali Myers’ 83rd birthday. I remember that Vali once told me she was born with a head of thick red hair and came out howling – she said it set the tone for the rest of her life. Vali was one of the most important people in my life. Knowing her, just spending time being in her wild presence, changed me forever and I am still, only now, understanding the pearls of wisdom that she gifted me so long ago.
I was honoured to be asked to write the foreword for Night Flower – The Life and Art of Vali Myers. I hope it inspires you today to remember Vali and your own wild spirit. And I hope it encourages you to seek out her incredible art and this wonderful book. Viva Vali.
The ancient Celts believed that we had two selves one that lived in this world and at the same time, one in the Otherworld. This mysterious ‘other’ is usually separate from our knowing but in Vali it co-existed with ease. The Australian Aboriginals call the Otherworld the Dreamtime and Vali used this word often and with love as if it were the real world, a place where creations are born, ancestors reside and the future was already known. Vali was a walker between the worlds. She even called her paintings ‘spirit drawings’ as if pulled from the ether. She drew only for herself with no intention of selling for years, so what you are holding in Night Flower is a book of paintings and writings created by her spirit for her spirit – to romance the other. By opening this book you are crossing a once secret threshold.
“The witch of Positano” is a 1965 film by Sheldon & Diane Rochlin (now named Flame Schon) and the first about Vali Myers’ life that now seems impossible to find [1]. I thought that that title was appropiate to define a woman like Vali Myers, with her flaming red hair and all those intricate tattoos, even on her face, her eyes made up with eye shadow, surrounded by a pack of dogs. Like a shaman she used to wear a lot of jewels, talismans, necklaces and rings and like a magician she charmed, with her hypnotic glance and trasgressive aura. Her gypsy style of dress, that magnificent hotchpotch, her leggings made of clerical brocade, she anticipated the hippy movement by at least a decade.
With a fire red mane, savage rather than just wild; with casual and sumptuous layers of second-hand clothes, which she was the first to seek out among the stalls of Resina at Ercolano and wore them like a sovereign “she was an Amazon” Gianni Menichetti said, “an indomitable creature, a stoic and spartan nomad soul. A primeval, telluric, pagan spirit.”
Our fan-made music video to Florence and the Machine’s “Only if for a Night”, from their second album Ceremonials. Any feedback is welcome! Thank you to all …
Vali Myers, The Witch Of Positano – debut singe from Guru Fuzz, released on all music platforms – 6th June 2018. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5fQX…
Does this hurt? Will it wash off? Will it go away someday?
When these were made they said that at a certain point in time: “All this will go away, ”
SOMETIMES IT WILL NOT WASH OFF
SOMETIMES IT WILL NOT GO AWAY
“I’m sorry doesn’t cut it, because sometimes it won’t wash off and sometimes it won’t go away. Sometimes it hurts and it never ever goes away.”
Defending Our National Monuments
National monuments are unique among the special and protected land designations on federal public lands, because they are created pursuant to a special, but narrow, grant of authority to the president to regulate federal public lands.
Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell image:
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Article 5: Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions, while retaining their right to participate fully, if they so choose, in the political, economic, social and cultural life of the State.
Article 6: Every indigenous individual has the right to a nationality
Article 11:
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to practise and revitalize their cultural traditions and customs. This includes the right to maintain, protect and develop the past, present and future manifestations of their cultures, such as archaeological and historical sites, artefacts, designs, ceremonies, technologies and visual and performing arts and literature.
2. States shall provide redress through effective mechanisms, which may include restitution, developed in conjunction with indigenous peoples, with respect to their cultural, intellectual, religious and spiritual property taken without their free, prior and informed consent or in violation of their laws, traditions and customs.
Article 12: Indigenous peoples have the right to manifest, practise, develop and teach their spiritual and religious traditions, customs and ceremonies; the right to maintain, protect, and have access in privacy to their religious and cultural sites; the right to the use and control of their ceremonial objects; and the right to the repatriation of their human remains
POLICY. It is DoD policy that: a. The DoD places a high value on the rights of members of the Military Services to observe the tenets of their respective religions or to observe no religion at all. It protects the civil liberties of its personnel and the public to the greatest extent possible, consistent with its military requirements, in accordance with DoD Instruction (DoDI) 1000.29 (Reference (c)).
The inclusion of these faith based codes now automatically provides international protection for those people by treaty and customs and the relevant information can be found in the GenevaANDHague ConventionsANDThe United Nations regulations and bulletins. If your country recognizes or signed those treaties you now have protection that you did not realize you had before. Know your religious rights.
This is due to the one simple fact that the U.S.A. Department of Defense including the active duty military is one of the largest single groups in the world that people respect. What the DoD and service branches are saying is they must recognize the fact that these faiths and religions are real and people in the U.S.A. military practice them. These categories allow the essential faith groups and the people participating to be legally recognized by the U.S.A. federal government and more importantly the U.S.A. military forces worldwide who will hopefully have a greater understanding of the people they serve. This also opens the door to services by the U.S.A. State Department who follow the Hague conventions as well as protection against religious terrorism domestically and internationally.
Here is some legal language that you can use to help explain to people how this fits in legally with U.S.A. military law.
The U.S. Constitution proscribes Congress from enacting any law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.The Department of Defense places a high value on the rights of members of the Military Services to observe the tenets of their respective religions.—Department of Defense Instruction 1300.17,
This is a legal observance this organization, activity and the people participating are protected under the following relevant international treaties and codes:
A depiction of the “horse charm” Merseburg Incantation. Wodan heals Balder’s wounded horse while three goddesses sit (the incantation names Sinthgunt sister of Sunna, and Frija sister of Wolla) while Balder watches.
Русский: Вотан с помощью заклинания исцеляет коня Бальдра
Doepler, Emil. ca. 1905. Walhall, die Götterwelt der Germanen. Martin Oldenbourg, Berlin. Page 14. Photographed and cropped by Haukurth
The author died in 1922, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 95 years or fewer.
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