Dead-Eye-Deer
© 1995 Ruary Allan
12" x 16"
oil on canvas

Animal spirits await the marraige of the sun and the moon. The bifurcating snakes bottom right emphasize this dichotomy, one of the most apparent in my art, which I use in roughly the astrological / alchemical sense: moon = feminine, sensitive, receptive energies; sun = masculine, assertive, expresive energies. The connection from the moon to the deer's right eye is being tampered with by a male figure with a hammer. The bird can be taken to represent the presence of spirit.

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