{"id":29857,"date":"2018-03-18T00:11:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T04:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=29857"},"modified":"2018-04-21T21:32:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T01:32:22","slug":"spider-woman-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=29857","title":{"rendered":"Spider Woman Speaks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29862\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hands.jpg?resize=423%2C323&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hands.jpg?w=312&amp;ssl=1 312w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hands.jpg?resize=300%2C229&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenraine.com\/\">Lauren Raine<\/a> is an artist who lives in Tucson and her work is indescribably beautiful. It focuses on the Native American archetype of Spider Woman. She <a href=\"https:\/\/threadsofspiderwoman.blogspot.com\/\">blogs <\/a>about her work, archetypes, myth, and synchronicity. The image of hands at the top of the post is an example of her exquisite art.<\/p>\n<p>As she describes on her website:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I live in the Southwest, I\u2019ve been inspired by the presence of the \u00a0native American Creatrix, \u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenraine.com\/spider-woman.html\">Spider Woman<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. I believe this ancient and ubiquitous archetype has important meaning for our time, and so I keep pursuing the threads of the Spider Woman. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0In 2007 \u00a0I was awarded a fellowship with the\u00a0<em><strong>Alden Dow Creativity Center\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>at\u00a0<em><strong>Northwood University\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>to develop &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenraine.com\/spider-woman.html\">Hands of the Spider Woman&#8221;<\/a><\/em>\u00a0as well as a grant from the\u00a0<strong><em>Puffin Foundation<\/em><\/strong><em>, and in<\/em><strong><em> \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>2009 I further developed the project as resident artist at the\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesleyseminary.edu\/lcar\">Henry Luce III Center for the Arts<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0in Washington, D.C. \u00a0 The weaving continues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other day, I received an email from Lauren about a synchronicity she experienced. She\u2019s preparing for her presentation for a conference on Women and Mythology in <a href=\"https:\/\/womenandmyth.org\/2017\/08\/22\/2018-aswm-conference-and-call-for-proposals\/\">Las Vegas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a> Her subject is &#8220;Spider Woman:\u00a0 A Myth for our time.\u201d\u00a0 So while preparing, she received an email from a friend in NY she hasn\u2019t been in touch with for several years. The email included this image, by French artist Odilon Redon.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called The Spider, was created in 1902. See the human face? This anthropomorphism embodies Symbolism, a movement that celebrated the imaginative and the literary. It was done in charcoal.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29864\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/spider-e1520365488467.jpg?resize=317%2C423&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/spider-e1520365488467.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/spider-e1520365488467.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As Lauren says, it\u2019s \u201cA nice touch from\u00a0 Spider Woman! I guess I see sometimes synchros as demonstrating how we are all connected in ways that we don&#8217;t realize&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Raine is an artist who lives in Tucson and her work is indescribably beautiful. It focuses on the Native American archetype of Spider Woman. She blogs about her work, archetypes, myth, and synchronicity. 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