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\"Deity,

Deity, 1989, painting by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

This Sunday is the Summer Solstice<\/a>, in the Northern hemisphere the longest day (and shortest night) of the year.\u00a0 It’s one of the primary holy days in all the pagan traditions of the North<\/a>, celebrated by bonfires and revelry.\u00a0 Shakespeare’s magical comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream<\/em><\/a> captures something of the spirit this season carried in an era less demystified than our own.\u00a0 Check this link<\/a> for Arthur Rackham’s gorgeous, bristling illustrations of the play.<\/p>\n

In honor of this time, here is a painting I made twenty years ago.\u00a0 In a videotaped interview made at an exhibition where this painting was included, I described it as “an embodiment of creative force.\u00a0 One arm is flowing like water, and the other arm is putting out roots like a tree, there’s the head in flames, and the second head, a baby\u2019s head, is emerging down below. <\/span>The whole thing is in a ball of fire, which is held in a big blue hand, suggesting that even the god you can conceive is contained within something bigger yet.”<\/p>\n

\"Deity

Deity (detail), 1989, painting by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s a celebration of the Sun, the ultimate source of energy for us on Earth, that makes the water flow and causes plants and animals to emerge from raw matter.\u00a0 Sun the illuminator, the invigorator, gentle warmer and harsh scorcher, source of all yet an insignificant one among billions of stars.<\/p>\n

The original painting is acrylic and mixed media on paper, 38″ x 50″ (96.5 x 127 cm).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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