Art is a superpower
When we express our creativity from the heart, allowing it the time to emerge, listening and giving expression to the stories within us, amazing things can happen.
I believe art is one of our superpowers. When we make art, it has the power to connect us more deeply to ourselves and to the people who take joy in our creations. Our art can give voice to things not yet voiced and transform the world around us.
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Here’s what I’ve been getting up to lately!
Poetry Within Art: Centos
The wonderful Poetry Within Art class with Misty Mawn, continues with a lesson on centos. The term “cento” derives from the Latin word for “patchwork”. The cento (or collage poem) is a poetic from composed entirely of lines from poems by other poets. I found this to be very freeing, as the pressure to come …
Poetry Within Art: Tankas
One of my favourite lessons in the Poetry Within Art class with Misty Mawn has been the lesson on writing tankas. A tanka is “an unrhymed Japanese verse form of five lines containing five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables respectively” (www.merriam-webster.com). I found the constraint of fixed syllable counts in each line to be …
Poetry Within Art: Self-Portraits and Sonnets
After years of art seeming to fall out of my sleeves most days, the last year has been a fallow one for me in terms of painting and drawing. I have (mostly) been trusting this quiet time as part of the process with the help of fellow artist friends who understand the cycles of creativity …
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The Tale of the Silent Woman
This story is for you and for all of us who are finding and using our true voices.
The Tale of the Silent Woman was written and illustrated over the 100 days and nights of the 100dayproject 2018. I began on day 1 with no idea what the story would be about. Each day I turned up and imagined what happened next. Before long, the story had a life of its own and I did my best to keep up with it!
Now you can follow the whole of The Silent Woman’s journey as she sets off to retrieve her voice which has been stolen by the North Wind. Her journey takes her up into the mountains, down into the depths of the sea and even into the Land of the Dead. On her way, she encounters the Owl Woman, the Queen of the Sea, her female ancestors, and a monk who has been guarding the Stone of Silence for over a thousand years.
In this video, I am telling the story as I turn the pages of the little handmade book I made especially for this project. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. Stay tuned for a print version of the book coming soon!
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