#nectarian

"The Moon: A History for the Future" - Oliver Morton

From amazing Nectarian Artist Daniel Mirante, an inspiration to me for the title of my album Nectarian: "'Nectarian’ describes a ecologically orientated current within visionary or spirit art, it describes the work of the birds and bees as they sip nectar and distill honey from the flowering plants of primordial Gaia. It describes the rich symbiosis of life, that everything that exists, lives. And all that lives is One. The hummingbird is the quintessential symbol of the Nectarian form of art. In Brazil the hummingbird is called the ‘beija-flor’ – kisser-of-flowers. This beautiful poetic term describes the deep sensuality of the interdependence and co-origination of Nature. Nature encompasses all that can be sensed, known and thought. Our minds are Nature. The bee and the flower dreamed each other into being. Nature is everything, the Kali-like wrath and the deep sweetness. The Nectarian vision encompasses all, and displays an all-encompassing fertility circuit in which beings can intimately couple with the cosmic and Gaian processes in non-dual ways. Such art reminds us that this kind of relationship with the natural world is possible, it preserves and enshires this knowledge in cultural memory against the current odds. Nature is symbol and by honoring the meaning of those appearances and by observing her flows we come into awareness of the cycles and patterns that govern our inner lives. Observance of nature is the progenitor of metaphor, and metaphor is the foundation of poetry, myth, shamanry and visual art. 'Nectarian art' can serve a vital role in calibrating our compasses back to the Sun and Moon, to the elements, to the great oceans and forests, to thunder beings, to the ancient shining stars, to all in this mysterious, dazzling and profound creation,"