Checking the Stars

Okay, I'm gathering my thoughts, checking the stars, doing some cross-referencing. I've got a lot to talk about in the next few posts (with some cool images for those who want to ignore my layman's sermon). So please, stay tuned, and please leave some feedback comments along the way.

Rick Griffin — Blowing the Lid Off — 1973

The illustration, above, has nothing to do with the partial poem by WB Yeats, below. But the stars called out for recognition.

There was a man whom Sorrow named his Friend, 

And he, of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming, 

Went walking with slow steps along the gleaming 

And humming Sands, where windy surges wend: 

And he called loudly to the stars to bend 

From their pale thrones and comfort him, but they 

Among themselves laugh on and sing alway

Springing Up to Everlasting Life

Rick Griffin was a preeminent artistic force in the underground comix and psychedelic poster era of the circa 70s, with excellent graphics and not making a lot of sense to the reader (at least not while the reader was soberish).

Griffin died in a tragic motorcycle accident, but up to that point he had a number of years where he had found his personal Christianity, and during that time created scores and scores of graphics with the Gospel of John as his theme. This is one of those graphics:

Rick Griffin — The Gospel of John/Like a Well of Water — 1980