Instructions for a Storm
Amaryllis R. Flowers, 2014
42 in x 87 in
Gouache, tea, acrylic, and marker on paper

Large scale scroll drawing on paper. From top to bottom there are figures conjuring and conducting rain, clouds, thunder, and lightning.  A thick femme figure sits in a pile of thunder and rain playing rock and roll on an electric guitar. Eyes pour down with the rain and purpling gray bats ride on lightning bolts down the page, guarding and playing with the conjurors. All of them are painted in deep bright browns and wear moons in their ponytails and suns on their ears. They sit, stand, fall, walk, and kneel, making alchemical symbols with their hands. At the bottom of the page one figure sits in a pile of lighting making the symbol for earth element in front of her pelvis, and to her right stands another figure making the symbol for air element above her head.  Moon phases arch in passing time, bones collect beneath them.