THE THREE HARES MYSTERY
THE
THREE HARES CAME RUNNING JOINED BY THEIR EARS SPUN ON THE SILK
ROUTE FROM ANCIENT TIMES WITH A SECRET
MEANING FROM A PAST BELIEF
THEIR IMAGE TRANSLATED IN NUMEROUS WAYS
STEEPED IN HISTORY A SYMBOL
OF MYSTERY OF LOVE AND ETERNITY A HIDDEN
TREASURE FOR US TO DISCOVER
This painting of Three Hares has a lot of
meaning. I wrote the poem about the mystery of this
Symbol and how it is thought to have been
brought to England on the Silk Route or trade
route from where it was first discovered in Buddhist caves in China dating
back to 581AD. How its meaning is still a mystery but has been translated in
many ways to fit various religious beliefs and how we find it continually
fascinating.
I have painted the Hares to
look as if they are spinning through time and space on their orbit to various
parts of the world. The poem I have written to look as if it is on a ribbon of
silk thus referring to the silk route. The moon I have painted to celebrate the
wonderful Lunar Eclipse that we had at the time I was painting this picture and
was lucky enough to see on the 27/28th of Sept 2015. The moon being
a Supermoon at the time of the eclipse, this is one which is a full moon at its
closest elliptical orbit to the earth making it look much larger and was also
exceptional in appearing a beautiful red colour.
The background I have painted
to look like the earth around the moon where the three hares have been
travelling through space and time. In the sky I have painted all the
constellations of the Zodiac star signs in white with all the other stars being
in a pale blue.
This is my latest Three Hares
oil painting, the original picture does not have the names of star signs
written on it.
