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I am not a video maker, but I don’t know a better way at this point to share what I need to share.  It’s probably important that these make me so uncomfortable.  I am posting these videos on YouTube as I make them- for the record.  The channel is “i am erth”. I am profoundly humbled by the generous and kind expressions of support from so many yesterday when I shared “The Oxen Are Dead and the Smoke Is Rising”. I’m nothing, but a tree standing on its head.  I must go on.  #spirituality #christianity You are being invited into my wrestling and my fears and a journey I am walking.  This is a beginning and a poor one, but it is time.  This is a poem-ish reading of Walking Man’s Tree Root Dreams, and my renunciation of Christianity for something bigger.  My hope is to continue to share this journey and my story with you.  It is terrifying for me but I have to do it.  And I hope as it unfolds that there will be some understanding and light.  Maybe I will be disappointing and letting some of you down.  For that I am sorry and it grieves my heart.  But I hope that with patience and listening you can understand and maybe help me to understand also.  I have stories I need to share with you.  #spirtuality #walkingman #Christianity #Everything Carving some letters in an Osage Orange bench that my friend Cody built.  #osageorange #woodcarving #woodworking GOAT-MAN:  I wish I could offer an explanation of this drawing.  Often I find myself working in obedience to a vision that I do not understand- or that I am unwilling to understand, or invited to not understand. As understanding can represent a limitation to those things that find existence outside of or beyond its parameters.  So there is a dance amongst contradictions happening and a metamorphosis taking place and there is spiritual technology that disintegrates the comfortable paths.  Good old fashion unknowing.  Jesus turning the past upside down, and asking “what do you see now?” #drawing #spiritualart #mysticism #faun #unknowing #illustration #art A tree standing on its head #drawing #art #walkingman Onforan is an Old English word that means “in front of” or “at the beginning”- as far as I understand it.  I co-opted the word symbolically into my being as soon as I learned it 10 or so years ago, and it has become a sacred ground outside of or on the edge of time where I’ve encountered intense awe and wonder and what I can only call the heart of God- that is beyond the human limits we’ve bestowed- in the great vulnerability of the Word-maybe what Ekhart would call “divine ground”. It connects with the great creation stories- and it glows with the orange light of the cosmic microwave background radiation.  But mostly it defies language- which is why I like the word Onforan- because it poetically exists “in front of” language that fails. #onforan #drawing #illustration #art The bottom half of a little drawing with Walking Man and the turtle.  #drawing https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsIDSaLN_PV/ Experimenting with adding color.  Here is black and red.  I’m not sure… #printmaking #linocut #art

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Sercus Sanctus

The Order of the Dung Beetle

The Order of the Dung Beetle, 2022 linocut

The Order of the Dung Beetle Sticker

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my good friend Seth Wieck wrote this poem

Stercus Sanctus

For Jack


Gavel gather our Order of the Dung Beetle.

Convene the turd rollers who work the earth’s treadle.

Six-footed levers reciprocate their treasures—

outcast,fall off and waste—our disgust, their pleasures


in spheres composed of compost, rumen, and seed germ,

chewed straw rechewed and strewn clear of lofted tails.

Firmpellets on which they dance and feed their lowlyyoung.

Dung Beetle priests atone, make our shit holy.

Both the print and the sticker are available at baumwerkshop.com

Seth Wieck’s work can be read and purchased at sethweick.com

Posted on December 4, 2022 by jackbaumgartner Posted in art, craft, design, farming and husbandry, illustration, land, printmaking, prints, spiritual mechanics, transfer of energy Tagged art, design, dung beetle, graphic design, logo, order of the dung beetle, poetry, printmaking, seth wieck, sticker Leave a comment
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