synthesize being collection
This work addresses layers of relationship between imagination and reflection.
Layers are the texture, pattern, weave, and connection. The layers I refer to are poetic, neurological, systemic, biological, and manufactured. The layers exist in narratives of the past and future and meet in the present materialized reality.
This work addresses layers of relationship between imagination and reflection.
Layers are the texture, pattern, weave, and connection. The layers I refer to are poetic, neurological, systemic, biological, and manufactured. The layers exist in narratives of the past and future and meet in the present materialized reality. By engaging all of my senses, I have been centered in ecosophy. I have approached this work by surrendering to a journey. I have produced work inside regenerative space. I have called this space a Living Design Studio. In this I have activated sacred, playful, creative, emotional, mindful, intuitive, and material engagement. Activating this space has re-contextualized systems of labor, waste, design, consumption, mind, imagination, and resources.
I have used my body as a vessel to alchemize the microcosm that I engage with. I have been deconstructing and reflecting through the dance of creativity. I have intuited the movement of my body through the intelligence of my heart.
The egg is a womb space that has represented my microcosm, which carries a pattern of the macrocosm. I have seen the microcosm inside of this egg as a reflection of the macrocosm of the universe and my orientation within that. From a metaphysical perspective here, the microcosm and macrocosm could be related to anything and everything beyond space and time depending on what is being addressed.
The materials in these works have related to the processing of my being through their literal names, essential qualities, scales, and densities. The egg has appeared throughout the work; symbolizing contextualized presence, as listed materials, and as the creative capacity of being.
The collection is currently in process.
To engage, we have recycled patch sewing kits and you can join our live streams to join our crafting journey through the fibers.
reorienting communication
From policy to roadways, consumption to landfills, and emotional articulation to perception, we shape the flow only to the depth of our relationship with our local environment.
How may these words come into resonance with the internal voice, body, and environment of the reader? I invite you to read aloud if you like.
There are layers of collective narratives that weave their way through and shape the tapestry of our personal narratives. However, “The stories endlessly repeated by the scribes of Empire become the stories most believed”… “As truth-tellers reach a wider audience, the myths of Empire become harder to maintain”. (David Korten, The Great Turning From Empire to Earth Community: Yes! a Journal of Positive Futures p. 17). The language of existence is beyond that of any definition or symbol. The mystery meets the known: “Whenever we slip beneath the abstract assumptions of the modern world, we find ourselves drawn into relationship with a diversity as inscrutable and unfathomable as ourselves” (David Abram, foreword xiii the moon in the well). This awareness of wonder is not something we grasp, yet may share in experience. Currently, with the infinite reach technology and open source information seems to extend, it is orienting to ground into the context of our own physical bodies and how we experience language. “Digital culture is inherently global”…“the culture of the (physical) book is inherently cosmopolitan”…“oral culture is inherently local in its orientation” (David Abram, POIESIS: A Journal of the Arts and Communication 2009 pg. 94-95). Much like words, the process of materializing comes to life by the essence in which it was made apparent. “From the ancestral point of view, tools made from natural materials, such as Maui’s bone fishhook and Coyote’s flint knife, emanate character and purpose. A carving tool might be so full of its own sort of personhood that the carver refers to it as “he” or “she”. (Erica Meade, Intro, The Moon in the Well pg. 14). Language can be like tools that shape the flow of energy. From policy to roadways, consumption to landfills, and emotional articulation to perception, we shape the flow only to the depth of our relationship with our local environment. “For like any living being, earth’s metabolism depends upon the integrated functioning of many different organs, or ecosystems… so the planetary metabolism is thrown into disarray when each region is compelled to behave like every other region – when diverse places and cultures are forced to operate according to a single, mechanical logic, as interchangeable parts of an undifferentiated, homogenous sphere.” (David Abram, POIESIS: A Journal of the Arts and Communication 2009 pg. 92). Restoring relation begins with the inspiration to do so.