To Prepare:

1.  Look through this website and see what interests and disinterests you. 

2.  I see PINTEREST as a generally wordless way to stimulate the Creative Unconscious. 

     Look through my Boards and perhaps start a set of your own.

3.  Bring a few objects, scraps that have been lingering in your life ---in your dresser drawer, nightstand,

     that file called TO SORT.  We will have the chance to work with these bits of your story

     and see what they can do to move things along.

4.  If you have a few favorite tools or materials that are "you", bring

     them along... OR NOT. The "or not" is also a big part of this week.

     Remember that line from the Diamond Sutra:

     "Things are not what they seem, nor are they otherwise."

What to Make

Besides tools and shared materials, I'm bringing the following "prompts"or portals for each of us:

Rustic legs and tops: A collection of chunky, slabby cuts of wood to form the base

of the places we can put the objects we make.  Some of you might mistake these for

"tables".  They are really more "altars".

Handmade paper card stock for the suits and decks of images

and information that  will likely appear...

Canvas Tool Wraps. "Give a person  a Tool Wrap, and they will find

and make the tools to fill it."  I'm not sure if Buddha said that or not.

Mask forms to attract, trap and  celebrate those pesky

other s'elves that will likely appear.

Other Tools and Materials

Materials

Rust, lint, old stamps, bones, more bones, feathers, roadkill feathers, planks, dust, skeletal leaves

t-shirts, hats, hag stones (rocks with holes), materials for scrapwood boats,

pens, paints, chalks, fine Black Dirt, charcoal, ash, MORE MORE MORE

String, yarn, twine, wire and dental floss to bind and bundle together the seeming disparate fragments of the waters and woodlands

Tools ... for extending the capacity of the body and mind. Tools to help embody the Dreaming State...

Hammers to pound the juicy flowers, leaves and stalks of Early July in the Hudson Valley

Saws and drills to help respond and shape the bounty of driftwood available from the nearby Hudson River

Knifes and chisels for shaping and reshaping

Sanders and sandpaper

AND
Two 25-cent vending machines to hold Liminal Objects

100 Plastic Vending Caps... those small egg-like treasure holders...