The edge of forever

There is a thing confusedly formed, born before heaven and earth.

Silent and void.

It stands alone and does not change, goes round and does not weary.
I know not its name so I style it 'The Way'.

 'The Way' is further described as receding.

Receding, it is further described as far away.

Being far away, it is described as turning back.

Charcoal, ash, coloured marker on mylar

approx 23 x 30 inches

text - Lao-tse, Tao Te Ching (China 600 BC)

Dolphin

from certain angles

things can appear alive

but a switch of wind or wave

and things go belly up fast

May Rites

A birthday spent building an alter

First chose the highest point of a rock outcropping alongside the ocean
A gathering of erratic boulders and wrinkled stone sits where two tectonic plates meet

Where camas grows
Has grown pre-contact
Starchy bulb sustenance

The mountains across the straight are said to stand guard, stand witness
To this site deemed sacred by both First Nations peoples
and the islands first Chinese immigrants

A vortex of elemental energy 
shifting ground
instability underfoot
constant wind
rock that rubbed shoulders with glaciers

Each side is embedded with natural items collected from a place
that relates to it's north, south, west or east home

The underbelly dark cave ladder
spirals to the underworld
or upwards towards birth light

The top
earth, air, water, fire

crystal conductor
sentinel gargoyle

sage burn

top of the center pole
runs through the alter from ground to sky
links the lower, middle and upper worlds
the conductor
the axis mundi