Binda Colebrook
Emergent Work
Vessels for
holding
complication
The Knowing was taken from me. I long for it to be returned. If I empty out enough, will it come in? If I metabolize enough, compost enough, make enough marks in paint and clay, will I get closer to We? For I suspect that the Knowing is in We, in interbeing. My Art practice is my way to move around the spiral of metabolism, from me to We to me to We. It is both a filling and an emptying.
In my multi-disciplinary art practice, I create vessels, both real and metaphorical, that invite the viewer into deeper relationship with Self and with the more than human world. My drawings, objects, installations and videos aim to
awaken sensory play and to slow Being down so as to support shifting into the reciprocal We space. Through the power of centering creative aliveness in one’s life, my dreaming is that when we are all in our centers, we will recognize that we are in a shared, constantly emergent dance with all living beings. All living kin are like bells – tone resonators. Through the process of NOT ignoring the images that come while sitting with another, I scribe the tones that aliveness is ringing through my vessel.
I am both an artist and a psychotherapist. Both these identities involve listening to the unspoken messages that all living beings cannot help but express, all the time. I feel most awake when in deep relation to others, and when I make things. In those moments there is a deep connection to the collective “red thread of aliveness” we are all a part of. – a thread that is always complex, ever evolving, at times ugly and pain filled and at others beautifully, sensationally juicy and moving.
My art practice is multi disciplinary. I make images, installations and objects prompted by being in relation to the world in an emergent, ever fluctuating way. I am as interested in the sensation of tree bark on my fingertips as I am in the visions I get of the vibrational fields sensed when in relation to all living beings. This website contains all the filaments that are contained in my thread and the mycelial network it ties into.
GRIEF Work
We
are
those seeds
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.
earlier Work
The beginnings
of
coherence
The work in this section was made earlier in life. It explores notions of identity, home, the experience of having been raised female, communication and mis-communication. Much of it holds experiences of dislocation, trauma and isolation in its grip. Much of it no longer exists. This website serves both as a record of what remains, and a marker for the foundation from which later work emerged.
As Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen * says: “There is something in nature that forms patterns. We, as part of nature, also form patterns. The mind is like the wind, and the body like the sand: If you want to know how the wind is blowing, look at the sand”. This work is a visceral result of the wind and sand responding to the sources of the winds I experienced and metabolized.
* Founder of Body Mind Centering
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