Field of Gold
Preparing gleaming surfaces, their light such joy to the hungry eye… gold has been used for centuries with cinnabar and lapis to speak of awe.
Category Creativity
Befriending the lack of Control
One remarkable thing about engaging with markmaking that includes water is that, when we add water to an initial water-soluble mark we have made, that mark begins to MOVE…it bleeds into adjacent marks…it sends a narrow stream down the page…it…
Ephipany
Here’s a beautiful and revelatory story from a member of our markmaking class: Marcia, the class participant, has a manual therapy/craniosacral healing practice. She has many years’ experience, and works both from her considerable medical knowledge and her intuitive…
Yorro Yorro
Here’s from Yorro Yorro Everything Standing Up Alive. page 53 by David Mowaljarlai and Jutta Malnic Elder Mowaljarlai quote “You have a feeling in your heart that you’re going to feed your body this day, get more knowledge. You go out…
Play and Celebrating the Relief
This week I spent time with each member of our experimental group. I gathered a key word or feeling from each member to put together this prompt. Here it is. The fool hands you a magic box. In the box…
Grounding and Expanding
In our art group we are experimenting with Embodied Imagination through the act of making art. We begin with body awareness. We take note of where we are before the prompt begins for the days exploration. This week we worked…
ASH
This is from one of our members. Meditating on Ash In our meditation we were asked to consider ash since we have been working with elements of fire, my first reaction was uhh? What will come up, meditating on ash.…
Imaginal Weave
A severe restriction of passion, brooding, slow restraint. Smoldering heat, incubating the egg…one seeks cooling of watery mist. Awakening with slow heat in the crucible of life. Embers glow to the yoke and dissipate in my brain. Dancing in destruction, flowing…
Igniting Fire
In my meditation, blue energy, what seemed like was air pouring through my head into my solar plexus, while from the ground there was fiery red energy coming into my body. These two energies meeting caused a molten yellow fire…
Managing your Inner Fire
“If Alchemy is the art of fire, and Alchemists are “artists of fire,” then the alchemist must be able to know all kinds of fire, all degrees of fuel, sources of fire, fuels of fire. And the alchemist must be…
That Which Appears
Current Images from our explorations with moving into the phenomena of the space within the images.
Illuminating Our Inner Color
Do the colors of everything we have encountered make up the colors of ourselves?