Awkward Beauty

Dear Moon Muser,

Each drawing/painting in my current series is showing, by example, how to change, transform, reclaim oneself.

How?

I draw with my non-dominant (left) hand - awkward, slow, weird.

I handicap challenge myself intentionally to create something different from anything I've created before...to be someone different...to know a different side of myself.

Not easy, but rewarding. The drawings show awkward beauty, what it's like to be autistic, neurodivergent, or different, or adopted, or weird, or to not fit in. This is beauty to me.

Sparkly Blessings!
Kathy 'Kat' Crabbe
(Pisces New Moon, Mar. 10, 1 AM PST)

Bring Back the Light by Kathy Crabbe,10x7in., gouache, watercolor, ink, collage on paper, 2024

Bring Back the Light (detail) by Kathy Crabbe,10x7in., gouache, watercolor, ink, collage on paper, 2024

Bring Back the Light (detail) by Kathy Crabbe,10x7in., gouache, watercolor, ink, collage on paper, 2024

About Kathy Crabbe

I channel healing magick through my soul readings and oracle decks.

I divide my time between California and Canada traveling by caravan to mer-faerie cottages built by my beloved and myself.

My art and writing has appeared in Sage Woman Magazine, We'Moon Datebook, Creative Cronies Moon Diary, and the Women's Museum of California. I teach at Wise Woman School and review divination decks for Witches & Pagans Magazine.

Faerieality

I am a self taught artist intuitively inspired by a shamanic exploration of seen and unseen worlds. I combine unconventional methods like non dominant hand drawing, random word collage, and dreams to help ne lose my bearing and move forward with only a glimmer of faerie dust to lead the way.

The Faerieality Series is painted with gouache and watercolor on Montreal-made paper. Each painting is inspired by an intuitively chosen section of a book that I felt had ‘faerie energy’. After the painting was done I then intuitively chose a few words to collage into the piece.

About the Originals: Each original is a gouache and mixed media painting measuring 6x6 inches (15.2x15.2 cm) and is adhered to an 8x8 inch acid free mat, ready-to-frame (frame not included).

  • Signed and dated by the artist

  • Includes certificate of authenticity

  • The artwork will be packaged in a clear sleeve and shipped flat in a sturdy cardboard mailer

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I work within the field of Spiritual Automatism. This is a method of art-making in which the artist suppresses conscious control over the making process, allowing the unconscious mind to have great sway. Early 20th-century Dadaists, such as Hans Arp and made some use of this method through chance operations.

Forgotten Victorian artist, spiritualist and medium, Georgiana Houghton is also an inspiration.

Paintings from the Faerieality Series

“Noise and Silence - wind in the trees, thunder, flowing water, falling leaves, rain, animal voices, bird song - we live amid a teeming polyphony of natural sounds.”

Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life

“Day darken! Frogs say
By day…bring light!
Light! They cry
By night. Old Grumblers!”

Haiku Harvest

“How will you know when these other aspects of self begin to show themselves?…You may be sitting one day and find all of a sudden that upon blinking your eyes you are sitting in a different room. That is getting hit over the head with a two-by-four.”

Barbara Marciniak, Family of Light

“To see Schafer’s opera The Princess of Stars, for instance, the audience must arrive at a lake in the middle of the night, and find their way to the embankment. At 5:00 a.m., precisely the performance begins with the appearance of the presenter in a canoe. Actors and dancers can be heard, chanting in an unknown language from other canoes at the center of the lake, while the musicians and singers are hidden in the surrounding trees.”

Suzi Gablick, The Re-Enchantment of Art

“Weaving boundaries
staking out home turf overnight
with a web of soft imperative.”

Georgia A. Popoff, Coaxing Nectar from Longing

“Whenever you feel you need a break, take a walk and enjoy the wonders of nature all around you. If you open your eyes you cannot fail to see them. All of that helps to keep your vibrations raised.”

The Findhorn Community, The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation.

About the Artist - Kathy Crabbe

Artist, writer, teacher and soul guide, Kathy Crabbe invokes faerie goddess spirituality to heal, make whole and holy. She is Mother of the Lefty Oracle and Elfin Ally Oracle decks. She’s also sort of ambidextrous. Her work has appeared in We’Moon Datebook, Sage Woman Magazine, Sawdust Art Festival and the Women’s Museum of California. Kathy writes a moon column for Witches and Pagans and is a mentor at Wise Woman University where she teaches a Divine Feminine eClass.