Final day to finish my class and I did it! One very sad ribbon, a crazy American spider, and a fantastic interview. The class was focused on Art and the Military and it was very enlightening.
A year ago https://mwilliamsart.com/64days/2024/10/1/september-12-2024
The Dragonfly is a powerful force, ancient and underestimated. She is more than a fleeting shimmer across a pond—she is a guardian of balance, a hunter cloaked in beauty, and a symbol older than memory itself. With wings that glisten like stained glass and a body that gleams like polished emerald or sapphire, she cuts through the air with a speed and precision few creatures can rival.
To those who only glance, she may seem delicate, but the truth is far more profound. She is a predator, a master of the skies, feasting on pests that trouble the earth. Mosquitoes, gnats, and flies are no match for her sharp vision and lightning reflexes. Her flight is not just elegant—it is unrivaled. She can fly backward, hover in place like a hummingbird, and dart with such agility that even the fastest insects cannot escape her.
Yet the Dragonfly’s power is not just physical. Across cultures and centuries, she has been draped in myth and meaning. In Japanese lore, she is revered as a symbol of strength, courage, and victory in battle. In Native traditions, she is a messenger between worlds, a spirit that carries transformation and renewal. To many, she is a sign of change, adaptability, and the soul’s journey into new realms of being.
Her story begins in water, where for years she lives as a nymph, unseen and overlooked, devouring everything smaller than herself with the same relentless hunger she carries into the skies. Then, one day, she rises from the depths, sheds her old form, and emerges into the air, transformed. What was once a creature of shadows becomes a radiant being of light. This is her myth: rebirth, metamorphosis, and the revelation of true power.
She is elegant, yes, but elegance is her disguise. Beneath the shimmer lies strength, beneath the grace lies ferocity. She is the huntress cloaked in jewels, the warrior of water and air, the spirit of change. She is both beauty and beast, and her purpose is eternal. The Dragonfly reminds us that transformation is never weakness—it is power, it is magic, it is destiny.
