A Happy Holiday to one and all. This is a brand new Easter design by Valley Artisan's member, Lise Winne. The design will be available as cards and gift tags at Valley Artisans Market. You can see much more of Lise's inspirational work at Valley Artisans Market. She is a prolific artist and has designs for every special occassion and everyday sentiment.
Lise's inspiration for the design was not entirely because Easter is around the bend! About a month ago, she produced another design called "Bunny and Moon" (viewable through via her blog through this link: http://lisewinne.blogspot.com/2012/01/bunny-and-moon.html ). After she made the piece, she kept waking from dreams where a bunny was coming out from the brush to observe the moon. Lise doesn't know why she kept having these dreams, but she wondered if she was being made aware that rabbits are just another species, a brother/sister animal, who share the same planet that humans do and who also look at the same moon. Perhaps the Lagomorpha species think about the moon in the same way a toddler thinks about it.
There are certainly a lot of associations world wide between the Lagomorpha species and the moon. Figures of hares are often found at Chinese Moon Festivals. In western cultures during the middle ages they were often associated with the lunar cycle, femininity and longevity. In the Greco-Roman period they symbolised lust, romantic love and abundance.
This latest piece is a continuation of Lise's present fascination with the Lagomorpha species and the myths and symbolism around it.
Lise's website: http://www.LiseWinne.com
Lise's blog: http://lisewinne.blogspot.com
Thank you for the write-up! Nice job!
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