"Clan of the Red Moon"   36" x 48"   Oil of Canvas by John WorldPeace A partial interpretaion from the artist's transient perspective The figure represents an ancient being if you consider his white hair yet a young man if you relate to his body. He has the strength and stamina of youth and yet the wisdom of age. He knows the old rituals and the underlying myths and still has the strength to perform them. The scene is a sterile one. It is made up of very simple shapes with everything having a clean sharp form. The old one's shoes are white and perfectly clean. From this we know this is a vision of our mind and the realm of the spirit as opposed the physical world. The old one is set against a purple sky, which represents a high spiritual consciousness dominated by a white light, which is visible but not distinct. It represents the high plain of existence where form is not concrete and reality has lost most of its form but not its color. The old one is performing the ancient ritual of taking the first red moon of the harvest season. He takes it not only as an elder of the clan but also as a unique spirit. All of the clan will take the fruit as he. The red fruit is the focus of the clan's reality on the physical and the spiritual plain. The orb contains that which they need for understanding and maintenance of their vibration in this place. It is the focus of the clan. It is the core of their reality. The old one wears an amulet on his right arm symbolizing not only his membership in the clan but also his status in it. The red ring is the metaphor of the red moon. Each life contains many metaphors, which impact upon it. This scene simply isolates one of those metaphors and presents it in a sterile universe where nothing exists that does not somehow relate to the red moon. John WorldPeace