Zelda K
Gambier, OH USA
EARTH
Sense of solidity and substance. Source of chemical elements for the body which
houses the soul. Receptacle for the water which bathes our cells. Center which
collects the atmosphere from which we breathe in life and become living souls.
Living, breathing earth.
WATER
Currents and
tides and wavelets and eddies. Tsunamis and floods and bathtubs full of hot
release. Triune existence as liquid, solid, or vapor, changing freely
from one form to another and back again with no change of its essential self.
It cleanses and it kills. It soothes and it terrifies. Most changeable of
elements, water constantly reminds us that life is perpetual change, that
nature is raw and wild, even when we think we have her tamed.
FIRE
Purification. Transformation. Coexisting destruction and creation. The Phoenix
cannot rise anew except from the ashes. The river of fire runs through all of
creation.
AIR
Air is really invisible, but a whole lot of invisible joined together won't
make a very impressive work of fiber art, so the next best thing is things the
mind thinks of in association with air. Like soft fluffy clouds. With one tiny
ray of golden sunshine peeking through at the edge. Clouds retrieve the water
vapor we can’t see from the air we can’t see, to return it to us in usable form.
Air is the laboratory in which many of these essential processes occur. Sort of
like our souls. And just as easily ignored and polluted.
