WELCOME TO PRIMORDIAL REVIVAL,  the new online home for art focused on the reclamation of deep time worldviews and practices, eco-poetry and essays on ancestral connection, and land art   created in collaboration with the living green world.    Primordial Revival focuses on the work of Pegi Eyers, an animist living in the Lake Ontario watershed next to the boreal forests of the monumental Canadian Shield.    She creates   ritual objects,   earthen book forms,   ancient  palimpsests,   portable altars, and other sacred art  as inspired by her deep time memories and sojourns in wild places.

The content here is rooted in the prima materia,  the  spirits of the land, the numina or power of place, the symbols of our archaic past,  the iconography of the Ancient Clan Mothers, the uncolonized values of matriarchal and Indigenous societies,  the somantic pleasures of the sensory body, chthonic desire,  and the wonder and awe of  animist seeing.  The ancestral arts that are being revived today, reflect our communal yearning for a simpler time,  arise from the primordial legacy that is stored in our DNA, and   express our timeless heritage as people of the land.     In our era of cultural collapse and climate chaos, Pegi Eyers is part  of a nascent movement that embraces the power of the antediluvian forces reshaping our world.  The axiom  “all that is old is new again”   informs our  reciprocity with Earth Community,  and recognizes the wisdom and stability of embracing our primeval   past.  
​A portfolio of original art by Pegi Eyers - 11 works in total - illustrate the pages of  Homecoming 5: Art, A Journal of New Animist Writing,  an anthology available from Aurochs Underground Press.  Pegi's key essay PRIMORDIAL REVIVAL   also appears in  this   Summer Solstice 2025 publication. The essay   provides the guiding principles for a pre-colonial indigeneity, and is a manifesto   for a new genre.   Access the reprint here:   Essays by Pegi Eyers 

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Can we consider Ritual as a form of Art, or Art as Ritual? Is it credible to ask whether a spiritual response to something is actually an artwork as well as a spiritual practise? We can certainly argue a narrative can qualify as Art, as creative nonfiction uses language to convey meaning and inspire an emotional reaction on the part of the reader. As a reminder of a Ritual, it can exist, perhaps, in the same space as i.e. the forgotten myths of Chauvet, and all that is missing to make the comparison complete is a piece of visual or tactile Art to bridge the gap between act and memory, working like a photograph to prolong the Ritual experience beyond enactment into the present moment.  Pegi Eyers, whose mixed media works appear in this issue of Homecoming, does not claim to do this, but her   works speak to a "time before time," seeking to remind us of our pre-civilisational existence in a way that both acknowledges her status as a Settler Canadian and transcends it – a Ceremony in itself.        JACK WOLF
                   I have always been attracted to the primordial building blocks of human existence, and my guiding light - or happy place - is my affinity for ancestral ways.  The elements of earth, fire, water and air, stone, bone, shells, clay, carved branches, baskets, red ochre, the hand on the cave wall, feathers in my hair, and the land's dreaming, all continue to nourish my soul.  Ignited by sojourns in nature and my deep time memories, I spontaneously seek to revive the primordial, and to express the wilds of my own imagination by weaving text, mixed media and storytelling  - and even digital tools - into my  writing, art, and craft.  
                        My resonance with the paleolithic and neolithic were unusual in my early years, but I grew up surrounded by lakes and rivers, luxuriant forests, the great stone outcroppings of the Canadian Shield, and other wild places.  Over the decades, I began to find models in archaeology and mythology (of course), but also in the worlds of literature and fine art.  With so many beautiful inspirations – each a joyful discovery - I found that I was not the only one occupied with the primal and the “time before time,” as the monolith of civilization kept advancing.      CONTINUE READING >HERE<

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Visual artist and exhibition curator Pegi Eyers is  an animist and feral who sees the world through a spiritual lens, and is a devotee of nature-based culture and all that is sacred to the Earth.   She has developed projects with artist collectives and arts organizations, and has been employed in the cultural sector as an Arts Publicist and Fundraiser.  Her work has been exhibited in multiple galleries, juried exhibitions and online collections.  She works with diverse media in her studio practice including miniature shrines, papermaking, handmade books and zines, graphic design, embroidery, mixed media, sculpture, acrylic & oil painting, nature assemblage, and digital applications.
Pegi Eyers is the author of   Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community,  an extensive volume that engages with social justice, nature spirituality and the ancestral arts. Published by Stone Circle Press, you can learn more about this award-winning book  >here<     Pegi is an advocate for the recovery of authentic ancestral wisdom and traditions for all people, and she lives in the countryside on the outskirts of Nogojiwanong (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada) on a hilltop with views reaching for miles in all directions.