Just below, you will find this week’s landscape collages inspired by my own photographs. (I’m also including the actual landscape photographs.)
Fifty days done! What a journey: doubts and pleasures; old techniques and experimental ones; messiness and tidiness; papers, fibers, adhesives, colors, textures, tearing wildly and cutting precisely, satisfied and not satisfied with various outcomes.
But what stands out most today is how this is a showing up process, and how attending to this supports me more deeply stepping into the other commitments in my day and life. They all feed one another. And they certainly nourish soul!
It is also a process of reverie: memories of being in specific landscapes on certain dates and at particular times of day (or night) with others, and alone. When and where and with whom, yes.
Too, though, each collage is a layered story of varying levels of relational intimacy with places on this one body, Earth. How connected I felt to particular places, known or new. My level of appreciation for and desire to connect more deeply again and again, or grateful for having had the experience with no strong desire to revisit. Of seeing my edges and immersions as I continue my journey of practicing the values of spiritual ecology which I hold so dear. Facing my own hindrances and embracing what flows easily.
Fifty days through this one-hundred-day passage of inner/outer landscape.
The collages this week include: Northern Territory Sunset in Darwin, Australia (Oct. 2022); Flowers on the Sill, view from my office window (Jun. 2022); Great Ocean Road, Port Campbell National Park in Australia (Oct. 2022); Mountainscape, Alaska (2008); lupine meadow at Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge (Jun. 2022); “Cancelled Ferry Gift,” sunrise behind a snag and hanging madrone leaves on Bainbridge at 8:03 AM on 19th Jan. 2023; and the full moon rising over Bainbridge on New Year’s Day (2018).
Thank you for supporting me this week. May your sense of your own journeys and passages be enriched!
