Onwards Soldiers of Love

First gather,
courage

bravery

persistence

carry your bag of tricks
forget your thoughts
crush your worries
step outside the frame

(digital collage by moi)

Poppies, pain & painted ponies

Not back in the saddle

Again

The sacred sacrum

has thwarted my momentum

grounding me to a halt

caged me in this bed, in this head

The Ilium not giving me a thrillium

Skeletons on the brain

Feeling disarticulated

disarticulated skeleton key arrangement

leads me to disarticulated canine skeleton

leads me to disarticulated human skeletons cum weapons

( Francois Robert  SEE MORE!)

Residual morphine and morpho and codine drive me deep into google images

 nothing else to do

even sleep mysteriously eludes me this 14th night

MORE pain destroyer pleeeaaassssseeeeee!!!!!!!!

More pretty poppies pretty please

last time I was on morphine I dreamt of rabbits

which lead me to make this collage

Hat Warren

 Lately I dream only of painted ponies

 They start out elegant, psychedelic

slowly they begin to abstract, mishape

 until they eventually peel and fade

until they are bare to the bones colourless

and the painted ponies go up and down

we're captive on the carousel of time

In the shadow of our own dust

Magic people

Conspiracy theorists

Horses who speak to me

Ritual Ritual Ritual

colours appear in grey sand

there is something in the water

after grief ceremony

I woke mid night

there was smoke in the room

not smoke

white steam cloud smoke

escape from left side of body

new moon

ash burn draw

orchid birth canals

pelican swallows the segull swallows the tern

in turn swallowing the turning

upside down sleeping running buffalo

we walked across her face everyday

and no one thought twice about this

let alone once

her vision quest rock face

full moon

pre-lunar eclipse

the coven convened

and burnt EVERYTHING

book burn art burn

tumbleweeds we be

tumbleweed spark spits

we saw them in the flames

ash bucket dream

lost and found

found and lost

and again

this tree burl

(look closely)

beside this mountain

in this field

told me:

NOT

TO

GIVE

AWAY

MY

SECRETS

Works/explorations I did during Nov/Dec 2011 Banff Center Residency

Watch 'Ritualized' Video

Ritual

Rituals and ceremonies have always been in my life

but I have long neglegted them 

this neglect naws at me in a very intense way

my dreams intensify 

blatantly reminding me I have work to do

 

so this past year I have re-introduced ritual and ceremony back into my life 

I have the know how it's just a matter of consistent practice

and

acceptance that this is part of who I am

interestingly ritual and ceremony, in the most sacred sense should NEVER be documented

those performing or partaking in ritual should never attempt to preserve the act

as an artist I am trying to come to terms with that

trying to see if there are ways to work with ritual and ceremony that do not diminish the authenticity and power of these events

while retaining the experince in a visual/audio/textual way

Old Woman Rock

 

Healing waters in the dark

mysterious lights appear

Healing waters found high on forbidden paths
alone
bubbling up from deep
hot even in winter
signals and messages play on the surface
i feel completely complete here

Something in the water

Poncho Bear and the Crows

A spontaneous collaborative performance at the farm

Act une

 

Act deux

 

Intermission and a message brought to you by Poncho Bear

 

Act Trois