Title
Zeus in Particularized Aspects of Oak
Artist
Terrance DePietro
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
It was in the coldness of January that I happened past what remained of a mighty oak, on the escarpment overlooking the hamlet of Palenville. And the year was 2009.
I have long been attracted to trees of every sort, especially those clinging to the limestone ledges of the Catskill Mountains - more specifically in the vicinity of Palenville and the Kaaterskill Clove.
Besides their obvious charms, the trees in this neighborhood have always nudged my imagination. Perhaps because of the terrain they are forced to adapt to - the way they cling to every fissure, as well that they must compete for beams of light - the specimens here seem to grow, each with a 'personality'; and remind a pliable mind that there is a bigger story to the picture they make.
And beneath the crumbling bark of this particular example my mind easily recoiled, for as if the years themselves had been shaped by the souls that invaded the forest and made to rest configured of pulp, there they were... revealed!
Only much later, presently to be exact, does it all seem to be particularly important to make the connection with Zeus. And with Zeus, only a starting point is revealed, for the 'wisdom' had much to do with time - time in its cumulative aspects. And so it follows that dryads would become aspects as well; and that would lead to Knowledge and nymphs; gnostics and the Hamadryad themselves!
But I am too enthusiastic! All these notions would be better to dream on tonight! Today I will merely imagine; perhaps the mysteries, perhaps times, perhaps my own bark and inside it!
30nov20 -tdp
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VIVA Anderson
Wonderful! “Perhaps my own bark inside it”....Due to the pain of my migraine, I will, in ‘time’, share my bark story about the Catskills of my youth, in delight at your notions. V
Terrance DePietro replied:
Hope you feel better - having my own head 'throbbing' from the 'what-else-ness' this day will bring. Time to zen from the 'stream' of main-stream... Honestly I wonder how people keep from aching all the time! Stay well girl! -tdp