Creating a new way of working requires uncertainty. Exploratory. Tentative. Open to failure. Fracture. Invention. No attempts to resolve, but to dwell within it. Light. Deft. Discontinuous. To question what art might be and bring a myriad of possibilities (and impossibilities) together, with elegance. With ease.
Relishing shadow as the site of this unknown, as it offers a depth for looking and feeling. Revelation. Obstruction.
Shadow lacks definition, only existing in relation to another – something or someone.
Seeing yet not seeing.
“Awakening and surrender frame each day and each life: between them the journey where anything can happen, the beauty and the frailty…”
Each day comprises awakening into light and lightness, tipped into surrender and the dark.
From visible to invisible, returning, turning to visible.
Awake. Light. Lightness. Visible.
Surrender. Dark. Darkness. Invisible.
This unfolding IS the work. Small, nuanced steps.
The bringing together of disparate thoughts, ideas, beliefs, IS creativity and the space for this will be manifested as somewhere where beauty, freedom and curiosity will reside.
There is a slow pull: a transition from one state to another: rebalancing the virtual, technical, digital with the physical, emotional and spiritual. Awakening to natural state.
Excavating values, from intuition and deep feeling. Learning to do this; to honor and develop this as a way of being.
Creating a place of deep silence.
In his book The secret teachings of plants, Stephen Harrod Buhner calls this the imaginal realm – beneath and beyond the surface. A shift from thinking to feeling: the realm of interconnectedness.
Questioning what role in evolution and ecology, where the Earth, nature, is teacher and the artist translator.
Uncertain? Sure.