Biophilia | Animism

Tiana Traffas Art

Biophilia | Animism

 

Works inspired by Animism and Biophilia.

Animism is a way of relating to various beings in the world. It involves attributing sentience to other beings that may include persons, animals, plants, waters, spirits, and the earth. Animism is found in indigenous practices around the world, including my ancestral peoples.

Biophilia originates from the Greek, 'philia' meaning "love of." It literally means a love of life or living things. Humans have a deeply ingrained love of nature, it is an intuitive drive imprinted into our DNA. or as land artist Anthony Goldsworthy said, "We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say we've lost our connection to nature, we've really lost our connection to ourselves."

 

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Oracle Portal | collage | 8" ×  6" | $60

 

New moons and oracle portals~

 

Keys to our motherliness and ancestral ways of knowing ~

 

Ancient mysteries and sacred rituals

 

pushed underground ~

 

by blood and initiation 

 

we are planting intentions like seeds ~

 

For shedding and releasing is our birthright.

 

Bison Medicine | watercolor on paper | 6"×6" | $50 

Demeter's Snake and Golden Poppies | India ink on paper | 11 1/2"×11 1/2" | 2019

 

Exhaling the Psychopomp, Opening the Void | Acrylic on canvas | 9"×12" | $200

This painting is inspired by ancient death/rebirth animal symbolism from the old Celtic, Greecian, and Scandinavian cultures from which I am a descendant of.

 

20210326-144620In the Garden of the Rising Feminine | acrylic on stretched canvas

 

20210505-173536Nature Spirit of La Crosse | India ink and Mississippi river water (taken from the place where the 3 rivers meet) on paper | Artspire Public Art Contest Winner 2019 - 2020

 

20201125-111147Illustrated Gibran Poem | 2020

"...But since you must kill to eat, and rob the newly born of its mother's milk to quench your thirst, let it then be an act of worship.

...When you kill a beast say to him in your heart, 

By the same power that slays you, I too am slain; and I too shall be consumed."

For the law that delivered you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand.

Your blood and my blood is night but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven"

And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart,

"Your seeds shall live in my body,

And the buds of your tomorrow shall

Blossom in my heart,

And your fragrance shall be my breath,

And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons."

Kahlil Gibran

Bella for White Buffalo Thriftery

 

Crone Poem | India ink, pen, tea, and homemade mulberry ink on paper | 11 1/2"×10" | $70

 

My body is a lineage keeper

 

a confluence of blood

 

Sunkisses~

 

Maps across my face,

 

constellations across my back.

 

I stand on the shoulders

 

of ancestors

 

and from my womb

 

my descendants

 

will be birthed to stand on mine.

 

Their feet

 

rooted

 

In my stars and scars.

 

 

Sigil Series:

A sigil is a painted symbol considered to hold magical power. The blood gates of womanhood need to be honored. We are met with constant transition, cycles, rebirth, and with each new beginning, we crave guidance through these universal yet taboo experiences. In modern times we are disconnected from the cyclical rhythms of life, it was all once considered sacred and elders illuminated the way. I created these paintings to serve as meditations for those powerful cycles, so that each time the wheel of my life turns and I am met with rebirth, I will have a magic to guide me through. Each symbol holds an intention and guidance. Color and emotion bleed across the paper to convey a soft power, a vibration, so that the viewer may be held at whatever stage they find themselves in.

 

Sigil for Moontime Blessings | My "Sigil for..." series was created with India ink, tea, Mississippi river water, and salt from the Pacific ocean. The tools used in mark-making consisted of obsidian chunks, wildfire charcoal, and pine needles | 11"×14" | $111

 

Sigil for a Smooth Birth | My "Sigil for..." series was created with India ink, tea, Mississippi river water, and salt from the Pacific ocean. The tools used in mark-making consisted of obsidian chunks, wildfire charcoal, and pine needles | 11"×14" | $111

 

Sigil for Finding Strength in Motherhood | My "Sigil for..." series was created with India ink, tea, Mississippi river water, and salt from the Pacific ocean. The tools used in mark-making consisted of obsidian chunks, wildfire charcoal, and pine needles | 11"×14" | $111

 

Sigil for Crone Alchemy | My "Sigil for..." series was created with India ink, tea, Mississippi river water, and salt from the Pacific ocean. The tools used in mark-making consisted of obsidian chunks, wildfire charcoal, and pine needles | 11"×14" | $111