01 January 2014

one of FilmThreats top films of 2013

http://vimeo.com/m/72632760

"This a dream sequence from a feature film of mine, "The Book of Jane" (2013). Here the mythic Raven Goddess, The Morrigan, (portrayed by Morpheus Ravenna) performs a ritual dance of death and rebirth. Music by Michelle Bellerose. CGI-treatment is by Michael McWhirter of footage shot by me, Antero Alli. more details at:verticalpool.com/bookofjane.html"

05 November 2013


MICHELLE BELLEROSE
autumn collection 2013 at SAVOURY AND SWEET, Chippawa, ON
5 November to 1 January 2014

"The ancient magical and mythological levels of our being, although 'unconscious' to our current modus operandi, need to be recognized as vital capacities of ours. If we fail to integrate them with our rational worldview, we are likely to regress into a new barbarism rather than take the next step of conscious evolution."
RETURN OF THE GODDESS
Edward C. Whitmont, M.D.



ELDER 2011
watercolour, acrylic, pencil on canvas
(private collection)

CONSULTANCY 2012
watercolour and pencil on canvas
$475

TRUE GRIT 2012
watercolour and pencil on canvas
$475

BE LIKE A CHILD LOOKING 2013
watercolour and pencil on paper
$350
***SOLD***

FRENCH GIRL WITH SCARAB 2013
watercolour and pencil on paper
$350

SADHU (HOLY MAN) 2013
watercolour and pencil on paper
(private collection)

MADAME OF THE BABY DEER 2013
watercolour and pencil on paper
$350

HAMADRYAS THOTH 2013
watercolour and pencil on paper
$350

COBRA DEVA 2013
watercolour and pencil on drawing paper
***SOLD***

PEACE IS TAKING A MOMENT 2013
watercolour and pencil on drawing paper
***SOLD***

MOTHER BUFFALO 2013
watercolour and pencil on drawing paper
$175

assorted prints with CDs inside
$10

02 November 2013

i was always keen to avoid doing things because of my outstanding situational awareness of the set-up of appearances. why make things worse for oneself by incurring unnecessary social and political complications? then i would do things precisely because they would make the world of my construction judge me and find me wanting but in a completely incorrect manner, all because of its unexamined reliance on the set-up of appearances... the reasoning went, and for ease i'll just use myself as an example, if you want to think the worst of me, go ahead and think this conclusion i'll right now make easy for you... and since its just your own wish to see me this way that i'm encouraging, i haven't deceived you, i'm educating you. as to your lens. in the meantime, having intentionally shat where i eat as all magicians periodically do, yes, i have to take on false stories that serve lower forms of energy, everyone does. but what i get out of it is freedom of manifestation... i get to call upon the deeper instincts in life as to right course of action. i don't have to constantly appeal to the mind in search of machiavellian solutions to the power dances of the day. i blame winner culture, the hangover of making commerce king.

i've learned by observing others and myself when caught up in the realm called , 'what other people think,' that it absolutely marks the start of warriorship to step out of that psychic world of corpse smog and pretty mirrors. its where politicians and advertisers and lobbyists and corporate apologia lives.

it would be folly to forget that, despite our fevered commitment to individuality, we are a collective mass. this means all of us, at some point or other, come to see that even our noble selves have mind-forged manacles of every kind. and sometimes when they get yanked we can't object, we can't let the world of our construction drag us down to its level of resonance, we must rise, we must dance.

so dance well ! this only means your best which is everything.

buffalo mother, first sketch...