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The ptotem for May is the owl.
Submissions of original owl images
should be sent to pterobones@gmail.com
no later than April 25th. All submissions
will be included in May's Ptero Heart.
Submissions of original owl images
should be sent to pterobones@gmail.com
no later than April 25th. All submissions
will be included in May's Ptero Heart.
APRIL 2010
| Welcome to the Ptero Heart of Luna Taylor |
1. Snake
2. Coyote
3. Cow
4. Deer
5. Llama
6. Bat
7. Crab
8. Owl
9. Seahorse
10. Shark
11. Raccoon
12. Pterosaur
2. Coyote
3. Cow
4. Deer
5. Llama
6. Bat
7. Crab
8. Owl
9. Seahorse
10. Shark
11. Raccoon
12. Pterosaur
Black Bean Chihuahua
Seahorses are private, odd creatures. To this I can relate.
They have a character full of althoughs. Although they are a fish,
they have the head of a horse, the eyes of a chameleon, the fins
of a weed. Although they are a bony fish, they do not have
scales, rather, they have rings and plates. They swim in a striking
upright position, although poorly, because they have a prehensile
tail instead of a caudal fin. Although the female creates the eggs
and the male fertilizes them per usual in our world, seahorses
are the only family in the Animal Kingdom in which the male
carries and incubates the zygote.
The seahorse is my personal symbol for creativity. We humans
have something in our bodies, saddled symmetrically to the right
and left sides of our advanced brains no less, called a
hippocampus, a Greek-based word meaning seahorse. This
physical piece of our fascinating mind is indeed seahorse-shaped,
and manages declarative memory and spatial understanding.
Declarative memory is responsible for art, and spatial
understanding is essential to style.
Of all of my animal favourites, the seahorse seems to be living
life his own way most bravely. Most quietly too. Maybe that is
what I love about him. He becomes non-traditionally pregnant
with the future, swelling with life, hidden, camouflaged as a
blade of sea grass. Loving the fresh food he sucks up in the free
ocean, he pulls the weight of his sea chariot, creating.
They have a character full of althoughs. Although they are a fish,
they have the head of a horse, the eyes of a chameleon, the fins
of a weed. Although they are a bony fish, they do not have
scales, rather, they have rings and plates. They swim in a striking
upright position, although poorly, because they have a prehensile
tail instead of a caudal fin. Although the female creates the eggs
and the male fertilizes them per usual in our world, seahorses
are the only family in the Animal Kingdom in which the male
carries and incubates the zygote.
The seahorse is my personal symbol for creativity. We humans
have something in our bodies, saddled symmetrically to the right
and left sides of our advanced brains no less, called a
hippocampus, a Greek-based word meaning seahorse. This
physical piece of our fascinating mind is indeed seahorse-shaped,
and manages declarative memory and spatial understanding.
Declarative memory is responsible for art, and spatial
understanding is essential to style.
Of all of my animal favourites, the seahorse seems to be living
life his own way most bravely. Most quietly too. Maybe that is
what I love about him. He becomes non-traditionally pregnant
with the future, swelling with life, hidden, camouflaged as a
blade of sea grass. Loving the fresh food he sucks up in the free
ocean, he pulls the weight of his sea chariot, creating.
| 1. Leif Stark, "Every Ptero Dances with Grace" |
| 2. Leif Stark, "Every Ptero is Unique" |
| 3. Jen Kent, "Ptero Heart Sea Horse" |
| 4. Murray Dunlap, "Seahorse and a Six Pack" |
| 5. Luna Taylor, "Lumière Étrange: My Ears" |
| Letter from the Editor: Freedom of Voice |
| Featured: Poster Artist Paul Imagine |
| Ptotem: Seahorse |
| Sea Herd in the Deep Blue Indigo |
| Featured: Insurgent Arts |
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| I directly learn about my own patterns by comparing them to what I see on Earth. |
| Recipe: Soup Kitchen #3 |
| 1., 2. Ptotem Artist Leif Stark |
