Saint George and the Dragon
Odilon Redon
The action is obscured but the glory remains. Depicting the climax of the legend that sees the venerated soldier Saint George slay a dragon that has been terrorising either a British, Cappadocian, or Libyan city, depending what version of the legend you listen to, Redon pushes the violence and gore of the killing to the edge and shrouds it in the mist of oil paint. Instead, the work functions first as a landscape, with the Christian narrative serving as adornment to a beach scene at sunset. Yet the scene is not short on drama – the fierey red of the sun bounces off the greens and blues of a selling sea that seems to defy gravity. Clouds bloom overhead like plumes of smoke and the whole image seems to be participating in an act of pathetic fallacy. Redon commemorated St. Georges act of bravery by basking him in the glory of the natural world, not focusing on the act of violence he commits.
Sunday 11th October
The Moon moves deeper into the constellation of Virgo, following yesterday’s new moon. In the garden, we can turn our attention to root vegetables, harvesting ripe beetroot and planting garlic and overwintering onions. Where the soil is workable, we might gently loosen it, allowing air to enter without turning it over. This is also the time of year when biodynamic farmers make horn manure preparation 500, filling cow horns with fresh cow manure and burying them in the earth until spring. Within biodynamic tradition, this winter burial allows the manure to transform under the inward, crystallising influences of the season.
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