tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83809636354690375112024-03-13T03:53:34.153-07:00studio spaceMalcolm McClintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657082343828081727noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8380963635469037511.post-3456399782434848852018-10-30T16:16:00.000-07:002018-10-31T11:17:35.404-07:00Hanged Man Studio<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jHewYlo9voE/W9nxbX374TI/AAAAAAAACZI/3yAhnzG5_uQ2xfXjUtwHGwV9-7c4KbE5wCLcBGAs/s1600/20w33dx8%2Bcopy%2B2b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1030" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jHewYlo9voE/W9nxbX374TI/AAAAAAAACZI/3yAhnzG5_uQ2xfXjUtwHGwV9-7c4KbE5wCLcBGAs/s320/20w33dx8%2Bcopy%2B2b.jpg" width="206" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Why do I call my studio, Hanged Man Studio?</span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hanged
man does not refer to the spelling game played by children, nor does
it refer an executioner. Rather, it refers to the 12th card of the
Major Arcana of the tarot deck--The Hanged man. I am not a believer in
the mystic or predictive properties of the tarot. I do, however, love
great stories and myths, symbols and the cards of the tarot represent a
great wealth of these. My interest in the card goes to its origins and
connections with Odin, the all father of Norse mythology. In the elder
Edda (the source of much Norse mythology) there is poem of Odin quest
for knowledge in the land of the dead:</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="font-family: arial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">wounded I hung on the wind-swept gallows,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">for nine long nights,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was pierced by a spear,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was an offering to Odin,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">offered, myself to myself</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">No one has ever known</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">or will ever know the roots of that ancient tree</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">No one came to comfort me with bread</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">no one revived me with drink from a horn</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I peered at the worlds below:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I seized the runes,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">shrieking I seized them: </span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">then fell back</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This
is the scene depicted in the tarot card. The gallows represents
Yggdrasil, the world tree. Its root penetrating deep into the
underworlds its limbs and branches supporting the heavens. Odin is the
hanged man--offering himself to him self he enters the land of the dead
and learns the words of power and of knowledge. The parallels to art
and the creative process might be a little overblown. Especially from
an guy that draws dragons for a living. But, there is something to the
self sacrifice, and solitary nature of of the creative process --of
reaching into unknown and unexplored areas of your mind and seizing the
inspirations that hide there and wrestling them on to paper. That is the
name sake of Hanged man studio.</span></div>
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