Manituana

it's one of my favourite book! I used a gold sheet for the background, thus it was impossible to get a nice scan of it and I had to take a photo...

I started this piece long, long ago, but I was too apathetic to finish it... since I got that I bored that I forced my self to end this ever ending process. I don't like much the result, but at least it's over!

the lady is Molly Brant

"I went to see her at dawn. The woman that many call a witch.  She was praying, arms outstretched, palms turned upward. She was reciting phrases in her  language, a mysterious music. I had to talk to her about the dream.  Fear and anxiety gripped me all night. She has seemed a witch to  me, too, I’m well aware of it. I remember the shyness, the anxiety. They say that she can stop rapids, deviate rivers, reduce her enemies to ash. That she can heal the sick, encourage harvests, induce fertility.  Call the dead back to life, turn herself into an animal. I didn’t know how  to approach her, and yet I had to. I stayed and looked at her, I watched the gestures of prayer at sunrise, until she noticed me, watching her…."