--- Mark Tatum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! I'm a lurker on the Joni-only Digest. ... I have a question about Joni's > recent painting of her garden that she juxtaposed > with her painting of the WTC attack. Some recents > posts focused on the "holy book" in the garden > painting and I was wondering if it may be connected > to Joni's medicine wheel concept that she used to > set up the stage for PWWAM and which she discussed > in her 1988 interview with Bill Flanagan (Secret > Places interview). Maybe the NEWS on the cover of > the book refers to North (intellect), East > (clarity), West (tactile intelligence), and South > (emotion,heart, and feeling). The symbol on the > cover might be like a compass with its four points. > Wasn't there also some connection with the "four > races" of man? Anyway, by spelling "news" she may > have had more than one meaning in mind. What do you think?
I think that's a heckuva good suggestion - I wouldn't have thought of it, but now that you mention it, it sounds reasonable - there's a lot of duality in Joni's lyrics, so it makes sense she would do this in her paintings as well. If you've noticed the words she puts around the frames of the paintings in Turbulent Indigo, for example, she even puts the multiple meanings into these words (idol, idyll, idle and so on.) Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca
