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LANDSCAPE IN MOVEMENT AND IMAGE

This work, on going, imagines landscape not as a stagnant shape, but as something that is alive, a story that unfolds.

I was moved by the words and writings of both David Whyte and John O’Donohue and the imagery of Celtic spirituality. In particular Whyte's words on the idea that we exist at a "threshold" or a "frontier of what is you and what is not you" and that both sides of an interaction leave shaped and changed. And O'Donohue's image of the "inner landscape of beauty" not as something lovely, but a "more rounded, substantial becoming." I see landscape as the space and shape of the world you inhabit, all together physical, emotional, cultural, historical, and personal. A landscape tells the grief, and especially the joy, and the stories that live together in a person or a place. The work combines movement and visual art (drawing) to create abstract but recognizable shape and communicate our conversational experience, how we attend to the world. It is important to me to carry a sense of joy and beauty in the state of undoing or unknowing yourself in order to find a deeper understanding of the shape of who you are


Gallery | Dance | Good People


First Showing:
July 6, 2018 @ 6pm
West Berkeley Fencing Club

 

LANDSCAPE IN MOVEMENT AND IMAGE

This work, on going, imagines landscape not as a stagnant shape, but as something that is alive, a story that unfolds.

I was initially moved by the words and writings of both David Whyte and John O’Donohue and the imagery of Celtic spirituality. In particular Whyte's words on the idea that we exist at a "threshold" or a "frontier of what is you and what is not you" and that both sides of an interaction leave shaped and changed. And O'Donohue's image of the "inner landscape of beauty" not as something lovely, but a "more rounded, substantial becoming." I see landscape as the space and shape of the world you inhabit, all together physical, emotional, cultural, historical, and personal. A landscape tells the grief, and especially the joy, and the stories that live together in a person or a place. The work combines movement and visual art (drawing) to create abstract but recognizable shape and communicate our conversational experience, how we attend to the world. It is important to me to carry a sense of joy and beauty in the state of undoing or unknowing yourself in order to find a deeper understanding of the shape of who you are


Gallery | Dance | Good People


First Showing:
July 6, 2018 @ 6pm
West Berkeley Fencing Club