Reading The Open by Giorgio Agamben….and excited about drawings going to Colorado

Really enjoying The Open by Agamben, thinking I must go to Milan to see the miniatures he describes. Wondering how is it that I make the work I do, knowing nothing about this writing, this thinking, and the two are so close in so many ways?

Then remembering my childhood and the animal world I would slip into to hide from the human one. How confusion and difficulty prompted this diving away then, but I was shown a path which helps me so much now.

Last night I had a dream about dreaming, and about how dreams can help us find the place to slip between worlds, which is where animals live, and is what I see in their eyes. They know their soul families, we look for ours.

The dream also contained a messenger (a shaman who taught me, who I used to work with) telling me about the drawings I can make for others, about their dreams, and how these can be healing for the recipients.

Here are the pictures which have been selected to travel to Colorado, to The Clara Hatton Gallery, in September…

sitting quietly like an animal, turning blood to milk
sitting quietly like an animal, turning blood to milk

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA    This work ‘Refined through Breath’ explores the refinement of vision which can occur through breath-sharing, breathing as a horse, re-entering the womb we share in order to gain clarity and a purity of vision

A dream of horses.. giving me a higher place to see from
A dream of horses.. giving me a higher place to see from
I touch my throat, the place you enter
I touch my throat, the place you enter