Friday Face OFF -- Black Currawong

For this week's Friday Face OFF link party

of art featuring faces, hosted by Nicole of

DVArtist, Art, Food, Gardening blog . . .

Here is a Black Currawong found only

in Australia's island state of Tasmania.

A type of corvid (like our

crows, jays, or magpies),

the Black Currawong has

a large, heavy bill and

white patches on its wings and tail.

Its distinctive eyes have yellow irises.

I did this freehand using

HB, 2B, 4B and 6B pencils.

It was another exercise in the

"Drawing Australia" course

which I am currently taking.

Our teacher just recently returned

from a holiday in Australia.

The course is based on her photos

taken while Down Under.

She told us that this bird

flew over their mid-day picnic,

swooped down, and stole a sandwich

right out of her hand as she was about to eat it.

You've got to be impressed with a

clever and cheeky bird like that!

[Art and photo of art © Debra She Who Seeks, 2025]

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June Full Moon Altar: Lady Thor and Lady Loki

For this LGBTQ+ Pride Month, our full moon altar is graced by two gender-fluid Norse gods in their goddess forms, Lady Thor and Lady Loki. Their trans-gender-fluidity is entirely consistent with Norse mythology. In one famous myth, both Thor and Loki crossdressed as women in order to retrieve Thor's stolen hammer, Mjolnir. In another notorious myth, Loki changed genders to actually become female -- well, a female mare. Loki inadvertently ended up pregnant by a stallion and gave birth to an eight-legged foal, Sleipnir.

I bought my Lady Thor and Lady Loki statues online about 10 years ago. For those of you who know the superhero collectibles scene, they are part of the Kotobukiya Marvel Bishoujo series. "Bishoujo" means "pretty girl" in Japanese and is a common title for female anime characters.

These deities represent diametrically opposite forces. Together, they constitute the dialectic by which existence and human history evolves and move forward. Lady Thor embodies order, law, reason, justice, and stability in the universe, backed up by force when required.

Lady Loki, on the other hand, is a changeable trickster deity and embodies chaos, rule breaking, pure intuition, spontaneity, and complete unpredictability.

Both forces are necessary for balance in the universe. Depending on the circumstances, each may be characterized as good or bad, beneficial or destructive, welcome or unwanted, a blessing or a curse. It's all relative.

Behold the endless cosmic cycle of existence.

[Photos © Debra She Who Seeks, 2025]

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