We
seem to have had a lot of Super Moons in recent years.
Responding
to the traditional names for the full moon I have made a series of
assemblages combining painted and found elements which follow a
similar structure of a cross with a found object acting as a
pendulum. Many
of the names are evocative and possibly unfamiliar but connect to the
land and how our ancestors lived upon it.
In
January the Wolf Moon, followed in February by the Snow Moon/Hunger
Moon or Storm Moon. The
Worm Moon of March gives way to April's Pink Moon (or Egg Moon to the
Anglo-Saxons). In
May the Flower Moon (or Milk Moon) precedes the fragrant Strawberry
Moon of June. July
heralds the Thunder Moon or Hay Moon and the ripening season of
August has the Barley Moon/Grain Moon becoming the well known Harvest
Moon of September at the Autumn Equinox. Equally
familiar is the luminance of October's Hunter's Moon and as the days
shorten and grow colder we get November's Frost Moon/Oak Moon or
Mourning Moon.
December
has The Long Nights Moon or Cold Moon.
Every
third year we have a Blue Moon, not so rare after all - it is a
thirteenth moon in the year. And once in nineteen years February has
no full moon, hence the name Black Moon.