BCreative worked with Robert Kenney Art Group to provide an anchor story for each of Robert’s series of singularly-beautiful art pieces made using the wet-plate collodion process. Numina is a collection of images animated by a female warrior spirit.
NUMINA
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget.
I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on, as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Perhaps I may remember, And perhaps I may forget.
– Christina Rossetti, Song, 1862
Direct speech devoid of sentimentality was not the domain of women well into the 19th century despite the Victorian regency. The Queen had but maidens fair. The self-satisfied female – daring her own actions, defining her own terms and facing her own death – was still the stuff of legend. The female spirit found her power in magic and mythology as supernatural manifestations just without the man. But women who prick power almost always pay a penalty. And wiithout suffrage, women suffered. Still, they knew what they were doing and they did it still. Warriors all.
