RECONNECTION & RECLAIMATION
ABOUT ENCLOSURE AND THE EARTH INNOCENCE and EXPERIENCE
A PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION AND TRANSCENDANCE
I felt the pain and restriction of enclosure that had been imposed upon the land and symbiotically became aware of my own history of restriction and constriction , the repression of the wild within me.
So strong was my identification with the joyous freedom of the wild landscape that it became me and I it there was no separation .
I felt the pain of the deprivation of wildness and freedom ,the prevention of access to the wild in myself and all women and most city dwellers.
I felt my psychological bonds of social and political and religious control and they wounded me .
What I was feeling is described very well by Clarissa Pinkola Estes(a woman with whom I share a close early relationship and response to the wild ) in her brilliant book entitled “WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES” Rider press 1992 p.4 pp 4
“A womans issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious culture, nor can she be bent into a more intellectually acceptable shape by those who claim to be the sole bearers of consciousness. No that is what has already caused millions of women who began as strong and natural powers to become outsiders in their own cultures. Instead the goal must be the retrieval and succour of womens beauteous and natural psychic forms “ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
There is no way I could express my psychological and physical kinship with nature and the wild better than that, although I created much work there in an attempt to do so. Most of which ,other than the paintings ,remains unseen . I cast the very earth and scratched stones that I hid in secret places on the moor . Ifelt elated and connected to the land to the divine and to my deepest self. I reclaimed a part of me that I had lost touch with and I now run more consciously with the wolves and alone also . My work is my journey with wildness and my quest to find a way to live with the challenges that arise in the culture I find us all in today where wildness is not afforded much value either in the landscape or the individual........I believe it is our great loss ....
William Blake felt it ... at the beginning of the industrial revolution when he gazed upon “satanic mills” Things have progressed since then , progressed to destruction of our relationship with nature How can we love ourselves if we do not love nature or vice verca how can we love nature if we do not love our true and natural selves
A PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION AND TRANSCENDANCE
I felt the pain and restriction of enclosure that had been imposed upon the land and symbiotically became aware of my own history of restriction and constriction , the repression of the wild within me.
So strong was my identification with the joyous freedom of the wild landscape that it became me and I it there was no separation .
I felt the pain of the deprivation of wildness and freedom ,the prevention of access to the wild in myself and all women and most city dwellers.
I felt my psychological bonds of social and political and religious control and they wounded me .
What I was feeling is described very well by Clarissa Pinkola Estes(a woman with whom I share a close early relationship and response to the wild ) in her brilliant book entitled “WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES” Rider press 1992 p.4 pp 4
“A womans issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious culture, nor can she be bent into a more intellectually acceptable shape by those who claim to be the sole bearers of consciousness. No that is what has already caused millions of women who began as strong and natural powers to become outsiders in their own cultures. Instead the goal must be the retrieval and succour of womens beauteous and natural psychic forms “ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
There is no way I could express my psychological and physical kinship with nature and the wild better than that, although I created much work there in an attempt to do so. Most of which ,other than the paintings ,remains unseen . I cast the very earth and scratched stones that I hid in secret places on the moor . Ifelt elated and connected to the land to the divine and to my deepest self. I reclaimed a part of me that I had lost touch with and I now run more consciously with the wolves and alone also . My work is my journey with wildness and my quest to find a way to live with the challenges that arise in the culture I find us all in today where wildness is not afforded much value either in the landscape or the individual........I believe it is our great loss ....
William Blake felt it ... at the beginning of the industrial revolution when he gazed upon “satanic mills” Things have progressed since then , progressed to destruction of our relationship with nature How can we love ourselves if we do not love nature or vice verca how can we love nature if we do not love our true and natural selves
