The Elder Gods
By Visual Artist Grey Cross
The Elder Gods was the first piece conceived to really tell a story. Its is part of a series of 5 sculptures all identical in size. When I created them, I composed a poetic saga to accompany them. The poem, in five parts is represented by each of the five sculptures. The Elder Gods is represented by the fourth part of the poem (located at end of this photo set).
The piece was created on a 4' x 2' wooden panel. The gods were created using grout and overpainted with metallic acryllics. The manuscript pages that float around it are original pages from the famous Voynich Manuscript. If you know nothing of this enigmatic book, I suggest you read about it sometime. Each page was copied and then hand illuminated with metallic inks to create the almost incandescant writing. Before the pages were laid on, fabric was used to create a wavy surface almost as if the gods are pushing out of the painting. The illuminated pages were then wetted and laid in place over the fabric using a watered down glue then overlaid with a gloss glaze.
The complete epic poem is included at the end of this photo series and a signed copy is included with the purchase of the sculpture. The other paintings in the series will be added later to this portfolio.
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US Currency $400.00 plus shipping and handling
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The Elder Gods
By Visual Artist Grey Cross
Part of the First The Argent Rose
My world was seen through stained glass shards
The pampered life not rough or hard
I sang my songs and lusted life
My eyes were closed to any strife
I could not see, nor wished to look
At that which like an open book
Surrounded me and spoke of pain
I was merely young and vain
Twas then I spied him all alone
Sitting on a wall of stone
His eyes did glitter, beckon me
A thousand secrets those tears did see
He looked in me and struck my soul
And took me in his arms so bold
He whispered words I could not hear
My ego made them disappear
Mere sounds within the darkness whisper
No meaning came, the words no crisper
He finally sighed and shook his head
“You’re blind in youth” he softly said
His arms unwrapped, my mind went cold
I pled with him, “You’ve bought my soul”
“I must leave now, I cannot teach”
He shook his head while I beseeched
He placed a kiss upon my head
A thousand words had gone unsaid
And with a silent flash of dread
He disappeared, his spirit fled
And in his place upon the wall
Lay four red roses, one to fall
Upon the empty stone-paved path
I stood in pain and growing wrath
The wine-red roses mocked my fears
Spilling forth in bloody tears
To mingle with the petals dying
My body fell, amongst them lying
I need you not, I vowed decrying
Part of the Second Aurora Sun
Like dead flies on windows ledge
My pain and loss were hell’s dark edge
Who was he to leave me so
And tarnish life with harm and woe?
I suddenly saw a world of hate
My eyes then opened to the weight
The madness all around me hung
My stained glass life was finally done
He’d stripped it from my barren soul
And cast me in a corpse’s hole
I will not seek you, so I vowed
I’ll not be slave to love unbowed
I fled that moment, ran from all
I hid on mountaintops so tall
Solitude in northern snow
Aurora suns above me glow
But still I dwelled upon his face
His gentle touch, his warm embrace
And peace within me sudden stirred
Perhaps this ego has matured
I left the climbs to search the land
I’d find him once again, I planned
And show him even I could grow
And be the man he needs to know
For years I searched, and learned the way
Of mystic, guru, saint and sage
But of him I never found a trace
My heart was truly laid to waste
I would never fill this place
Part of the Third Bleeding Time
Now I see the real world, my blinders folded back
If only he could see me now, not for what I lacked
The solution dawned, I’ll turn back time
I’ve skills beyond this mortal slime
I’ll weave the mystic paths that burn
And to his arms I shall return
To show him then what I’ve become
And he’ll be mine for times to come
We’ll cross the universe divide
Our love the beacon all to guide
And so I spoke an ancient word
And forced back time with occult sword
I slew the clock, I bent the light
The path submitted to my might
The hours fell, the past did bleed
The future melted, time concedes
I ran to where I knew he sat
A silent prayer to gods I spat
But in dismay he was not there
Merely a silent wall with roses fair
I cursed the gods in my despair
Part of the Fourth Summoning of the Elder Gods
I wept for a better world which would not come
I searched for solutions to the numb
My yearning spirit cried release
My heart ached for love and peace
I spoke to holies desiring answer
They turned me away. I was a cancer
Falsehoods, deceptions all around thee
Prophets and preachers set upon me
I cried to elder gods and asked why
They were silent in their manors high
I cast the stones, burned sacred texts
Spoke the words and wrought the hex
I bled from face and fingertip
The drops falling from lash and lip
And there they were, staring forth
Impassioned gazes judged my worth
Take me home, I wept, this world is vile
They merely mocked me with sly smiles
You are gods, I am but man
Ease my pain, share your plan
They simply watched, the silent mock
Until the shadows marched toward dark
So I made my peace and vowed
“If you will not take me”, I said aloud
“Then let the life drip from my veins
I take the journey without your gains”
I slashed then slept beneath their gaze
Until I rose and passed the place
Now I am only spirit lost in space
Part of the Fifth A Mystics Rift
My mind did swell with cosmic beauty
I saw the universe so truly
I saw the errors of my way
Death had brought me light that day
For all my knowledge, I still did lack
The understanding of simple acts
Of kindness and of love in living
And the need to be forgiving
I’d missed the simpleness of message
Hidden amongst the furious vestige
Of a thousand preachers, rambling facade
Of how to act before an angry god
I’d squandered life with selfish acts
And now I truly made a pact
If I could call the gods to me
If time could bend beneath my knee
Then I could breach the walls of death
And walk once more and take a breath
I summoned all that was within
I sang of all that will be and had been
And slowly through the mystics’ rift
Reality itself did twist
And I once more became myself
The lessens learned and dearly dealt
To find myself upon the wall
That same dear place that began it all
Dark red roses in my hand
As a callous youth before me stands
And I see with eyes so wide
The only way to breach his pride
Is to leave and let him find
The path before him to unwind
I leave four roses there behind