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Meet The Az: my series of flower & forest beings. What inspired this series and what I am bringing forward in myself and the collective with it is the re-naturalization of the complete spectrum of the Self. And the return to love from guilt, shame & fear as means to manipulate and control. It is a dedication and devotion to the path of least resistance, because that is what nature/life/universe does to direct energy most efficiently.
The creatures in this series do not belong to one species, genus, grouping or class. They range the spectrum of existence. They are reflections of the parts of myself that sometimes feel alien in this world or at odds with each other, and the way I am allowing those parts of self to root in this earthly realm. The Az, for me, are about grounding our wildness and irreverence, so that a NEW reverence for the self/life/source can be created.
There is actually a pretty magical and sweet story about where the name The Az came from! ✨ … the name ‘The Az’ comes courtesy of my beloved husband Kenny, who as a very small child had a relationship to a group of creatures that lived behind the buttons on their couch (😍🥹) and in the woods around it. Him and his sister watched them and made up stories about them. He told me about this many, many years ago when we first met at 17, but he never explained to me what they looked like, he just told me their name. When I started this series I didn’t know yet what it was about exactly, I was following the muse and inspiration, but as I got further into its development it informed me it wanted to be called “The Az” and I replied, “No, I can't, that’s Kenny’s childhood thing, I can’t use that.” and dropped it. But they kept insisting that was their name…
So I decided to finally just ask Kenny what the Az looked like to him and he proceeded to EXACTLY DESCRIBE many of the different primary characteristics of my series (that I had not shown him yet) without ever hearing this from him (to a T!) especially the very FIRST one I had made that inspired the whole series. So I promptly knew that they weren’t messing around when they insisted that was their name. 🥹 ✨ The characters have come a long way since then match him and his sisters shared vision of them in a crazy magical way. 💞