White, as the purest color, represents her in ceremony. In veves, she is invariably portrayed alongside Damballa as one of two dancing or intertwined serpents. When represented in art, she is often depicted as a serpent consuming its own tail. Symbols and offerings Īyida-Weddo is symbolized by the rainbow, snake, thunderbolt, and white paquet congo.
As his female aspect, together they represent dynamism, life, creation, and the intertwined harmony of male and female, earth and heaven, and body and spirit.
In others, she is one with Damballa: a single entity sharing a dual spirit. As his inseparable companion, she shares him with his concubine, Erzulie Freda. In many stories, she is married to Damballa. Family Īyida-Weddo is a member of the Rada family of loa, associated with protection, benevolence, and love. Ayida-Weddo bestows love and well-being upon her followers, teaching fluidity and the connection between body and spirit. Thought to have existed before the earth, Ayida-Weddo assisted the creator goddess Mawu-Lisa in the formation of the world, and is responsible for holding together the earth and heavens. Considered in many sources as the female half of Damballa's twin spirit, the names Da Ayida Hwedo, Dan Ayida Hwedo, and Dan Aida Wedo have also been used to refer to her. Alongside Damballa, Ayida-Weddo is regarded among the most ancient and significant loa, and variants of her name include Ayida, Ayida-Wedo, Aido Quedo, Aido Wedo, Aida Wedo, and Aido Hwedo. Known as the " Rainbow Serpent," Ayida-Weddo is the loa of fertility, rainbows, wind, water, fire, wealth, thunder, and snakes. They can best be described as hard edge abstract color jewels that have fallen from the cosmos like shooting stars.Ayida-Weddo is a powerful loa spirit in Vodou, revered in regions across Africa and the Caribbean, namely in Benin and Haiti. The paintings seem to have a mystic power of their own and they seem to capture a flash of emotion and freeze it in time like a camera does but since they take longer to complete they cover a greater range of emotions.
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I also work in multiple styles that each lead to a series of paintings and every now and then one of those paintings opens another door leading to a whole new series of paintings. I have a continuing flood of ideas that I am constantly tapping into and as I do more paintings the greater the flow of ideas become.
My approach to doing the paintings also varies in that sometimes I work from drawings done to scale and then at times I draw directly on the surface because the concept is so clear that I can go directly to executing it. There are also some very hard edges, sometimes there are circles and sometimes there are small paintings within the paintings. The shapes are very unusual and the colors at times are also unusual. The best way to describe my art is to say that it is totally abstract, with large areas of varied colors that are sometimes splashed or solid and very linear in nature.
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Being a professional photographer before I was an artist has also had a great deal of influence on my style of art. My influences come from outside the art world and they are varied as life itself. I also don't view other artist's work so that I am not influenced by a current style or trend.
I try to use as many variations as I can to separate my work from the rest of the art world so that I have my own dynamic style. I mix most of the colors that I use and I also design the unusual shapes that I use for the paintings. The paintings are personal and very different from other artists work due to the way that I approach the work. The art that I do is very abstract in content and nature.
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