The Process.
It begins with inspiration from…
A Meditation.
A Dream.
Nature.
You.
A Story.
The Compassionate Spirit World.
Mythology.
A Healing Experience.
My process is conversational and collaborative with the wool and the found objects. I see my role in the creation process as an interpreter whose job it is to get out of the way so the piece can be birthed in the way it wants to be.
I work in the abstract.
My artistic process is one of deconstructing, taking a concept and peeling apart its shell.
When I arrive at the seed of the idea, I work with its essence as an expression from this freshly discovered, energetic space.
As I approach a piece or collection I sit in meditation and curiosity with its energy.
When I created a collection around the concept of the Holy Grail, I teased apart the phrase and became curious about the words Holy and Grail. I arrived at the notion of Holy as Whole and the definition of Grail as “earnestly pursued or sought after”. I then dove into the mainstream concept of the Holy Grail being a cup, a chalice: something to hold, to nourish, to feed, for pleasure, a container, a conduit for life. The questions of what it is to be held, to be cupped, arose from these queries along with what it is to experience the inception of the sacred and witness the journey of its lifecycle.
The image of the Chalice as the Holy Grail has interpretations as symbolism for the female reproductive system. The energy of this really spoke to me. As a shamanic practitioner, I muse and meditate regularly on the idea of lifecycles, whether they are lifecycles of blood and bone, spoken words, the natural kingdom or the energetic world.
Sketch…
Plot Them Out…
