EMERGENT WORK
My work has shifted in the last two years. I recognize that a lot of work prior to the pandemic year of 2020 was grief work. It was stuck in a repetition compulsion of expressing and exploring suffering and hurt. It looked for what was going wrong. The slowing down that 2020 invited led me like so many others to read more, go out into the woods more, engage with nature more. What I found along the way was the power of connection to Self, and to Gaia. I call our planet Earth Gaia because she truly is a sentient ecosystem, and she is the mother of us all. Indigenous peoples have always known it, and it is time to listen to their wisdom once more.
So now I strive to put my energy in finding the center within me and inviting others to do the same. When we are all in our centers, we will recognize that we are all engaged in a reciprocal dance with all living beings. And once we have felt into that space, it is very difficult to return to an existence that harms other sentient beings. I do that by making work that intends to invite the opening of the sensory gates to the metaphysical background. That is what this emergent body of work is about.
My work has shifted in the last two years. I recognize that a lot of work prior to the pandemic year of 2020 was grief work. It was stuck in a repetition compulsion of expressing and exploring suffering and hurt. It looked for what was going wrong. The slowing down that 2020 invited led me like so many others to read more, go out into the woods more, engage with nature more. What I found along the way was the power of connection to Self, and to Gaia. I call our planet Earth Gaia because she truly is a sentient ecosystem, and she is the mother of us all. Indigenous peoples have always known it, and it is time to listen to their wisdom once more.
So now I strive to put my energy in finding the center within me and inviting others to do the same. When we are all in our centers, we will recognize that we are all engaged in a reciprocal dance with all living beings. And once we have felt into that space, it is very difficult to return to an existence that harms other sentient beings. I do that by making work that intends to invite the opening of the sensory gates to the metaphysical background. That is what this emergent body of work is about.
Bark imprints
(link to CatskillandCo)
Yield to pull series
Mycelium drawings
Thought Maps
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Grasp and Pull candle holders (link to CatskillandCo)
Red Thread Project
Way of the Circle
Residue
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Bird commissions
World Water Year
Inside Out and Outside In
Beauty Within
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Mycelium Rising
Grasp Stones Offering
Intersubject
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GRIEF WORK
As noted above, my work has shifted in the last two years. As a result, I am intentionally shifting out of a documentation of despair, trauma and grief.
That said, work that documents that state has its place. There is a lot that is not working on this planet because of human choices made, systems of oppression that have an intensely firm foothold in our psyches, and people with power who are not connected to the center within themselves.
But it seems to me that it has to be accompanied with a more love centered and reciprocal intention. So this work is a spring board to engaging in what Rivera Sun calls the Dandelion Insurrection. Each dandelion seed is one in the whole. We are those seeds. We can be individual seeds of love that are always connected to all the other seeds that came from the whole.
As noted above, my work has shifted in the last two years. As a result, I am intentionally shifting out of a documentation of despair, trauma and grief.
That said, work that documents that state has its place. There is a lot that is not working on this planet because of human choices made, systems of oppression that have an intensely firm foothold in our psyches, and people with power who are not connected to the center within themselves.
But it seems to me that it has to be accompanied with a more love centered and reciprocal intention. So this work is a spring board to engaging in what Rivera Sun calls the Dandelion Insurrection. Each dandelion seed is one in the whole. We are those seeds. We can be individual seeds of love that are always connected to all the other seeds that came from the whole.
Hemlock Disappearing Act
Body Memory
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Broken Trees
Leaving
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Doer and Done To
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Viscera
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OLDER WORK
Sculpture
Hand made paper
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Installation
Hand made books
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Etchings
Fabric pieces
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Book cover pieces
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