IMAGINAL ARTIFACTS
STUCK? Consult the animals, birds, bugs
What have you seen most recently? Most often?
Do you see yourself as having certain animal characteristics?
Make an animal tool or card.
STILL STUCK? Consider this:
We are not human beings experiencing a spiritual life, but rather spiritual beings experiencing a human life." ~ Attributed to Teilhard de Chardin
What things re-member us into our spiritual lives?
STILL STUCK? Look at what other people have done.
No, it's not copying, it's sharing! No one invents anything. It's all rediscovery and re-presentation.
STILL? Look at what you've chosen to work with. Describe these materials as generally as possible. Here's a start:
- Fresh material--Dry material
- Old items -- New things
- Vegetable/Plant material--Animal Material--Stone material
- Seeds-pods-nuts (life holders)
- Containers-Vessels-Matrixes (backgrounds)
- Sticks-jabby-straight things (sticks, porcupine quills,glass shards)
- Shiny things (mirror pieces,copper)--Dull things (wasps nests)
- Things that absorb light or reflect or refract it
- Shapes: symmetric-asymmetric, big-just right-small-too small
- Durable things-Fragile things
- Hard Things-Soft things (fabric, wool, milkweed, old carpet)
- Broken Things
- Strange Things-Familiar Things
Now look at your descriptive list.
What characteristics of matter seem to attract you?
Any thoughts or feelings about this?
STILL? yes, that's right -- just be still for a while...It's a good time to rest.
