Liner notes from Rautavaara’s Angel of Light : « For the angels I had in mind were akin to the terrifying, masculine figures bursting with saintly fury of Rainer Maria Rilke, for whom “…ein jeder Engel ist schrecklich — every angel is terrible…” These angels are not figures out of any children’s fairy tale; instead, they reside in the age-old tradition of humankind and the ever-present companion, the archetype of which C.G. Jung says, “…no-one can bear to lose the perfect archetype.” It must accompany us, and we it, today as ever before, if we have a mind to command our lives and understand the world. »
Left : A portrait I painted of my friend Cima around 2006 – 20 years ago. Lost and found.
Falling to the light, les anges de l’Apocalypse
The Apocalypse Tapestry in Angers, France. (Largest medieval tapestry in the world, commissioned and woven in Paris between 1377 and 1382.)
Fall in light, detail ~ monk fruit sugar moon, a cintamani