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Pelican Battle Jacket — rear view worn, full back panel with the Pelican in Her Piety upon the Rosy Cross, crowned in sacred flame, beneath IGNE NATURA RENOVATUR INTEGRA Pelican Battle Jacket — rear view, arms extended, showing the full back composition and both painted sleeves Pelican Battle Jacket — front chest detail, the rose-and-cross with a painted rose sleeve Pelican Battle Jacket — serpent sleeve detail, crowned serpents beside a checkerboard panel Pelican Battle Jacket — rose sleeve detail, hand-painted roses and thorned vines Pelican Battle Jacket — alternate rose sleeve view
Rosicrucian

Pelican Battle Jacket

$2,200
Available · One-of-One Work
A single original work — not reproduced and not editioned. Available to one collector.
One-of-one original — available for acquisition
Hand-painted on a premium black Levi's denim trucker jacket
The Pelican in Her Piety, crowned in sacred flame, upon the Rosy Cross
INRI · IGNE NATURA RENOVATUR INTEGRA across the shoulders
Acrylic, heat-applied vinyl, and rhinestone accents · individually hand-painted and finished
Roses, serpent, and checkerboard panels · Handcrafted in the Washington, DC region
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Created as a one-of-one wearable artwork on premium black denim, hand-painted with the Pelican in Her Piety.

Across the shoulders runs the motto IGNE NATURA RENOVATUR INTEGRA. Beneath it, the Pelican — crowned and ringed in sacred flame — wounds her own breast to feed her young, set upon the Rosy Cross above the banner INRI. Roses climb one sleeve, a serpent the other, and checkerboard panels run the sides. There is one, and only one.

Artist & Craftsmanship

The jacket is the work of Debbi Cohilas. A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, she has spent more than thirty years in film and television as a storyboard artist, director, and animation timer — her credits include Avatar: The Last Airbender, Family Guy, and King of the Hill. That discipline — the practised translation of an idea into a clear, weighted image — is present in every inch of this piece.

The imagery is hand-painted in professional acrylics, with high-quality heat-applied vinyl elements and rhinestone accents introduced with restraint — catching light where the composition asks for it and nowhere it does not — and sealed for the realities of wear.

Symbolism & Meaning

The motto and the letters beneath the Pelican are the same idea twice told. Igne Natura Renovatur Integra — "by fire, nature is renewed whole" — is the alchemical reading of INRI, understood within the Rosicrucian current as a formula of purification and rebirth through fire; the sacred flames around the crowned centre are its visual echo.

The Pelican in Her Piety is among the oldest emblems of the tradition — self-sacrifice, nourishment drawn from one's own substance, the giving of life through wounding. She rests upon the Rosy Cross, the union of rose and cross from which the Rosicrucian path takes its name. The serpent along one sleeve carries its old alchemical office of transformation and renewal; the roses along the other open as the soul is said to open upon the cross of discipline. The checkerboard panels are the mosaic pavement — the ground of light and dark on which such work is done.

Materials & Construction

  • Premium black Levi's denim trucker jacket
  • Hand-painted acrylic artwork
  • High-quality heat-applied vinyl elements
  • Rhinestone accents
  • Hand-painted and finished by the artist
  • One-of-one original — available for acquisition, not reproduced and not editioned

Pricing & Acquisition

Offered at $2,200. This is the finished work — already made, already singular — acquired as one acquires a painting: for its authorship, its symbolic literacy, and its permanence. The collector who keeps it owns the only one in existence.

This work is available to a single collector. Acquisition is by private inquiry; a closer viewing of its details can be arranged on request.

$2,200 · Available · One-of-one · Inquire to acquire.