In 2019 I began making drawings with crumpled paper. Taking a clean sheet of paper, I’d crumple the thing up in my hands, then smooth it out. Sometimes I’d repeat the process, damaging and manipulating of the paper. I started this drawing in 2020 during the pandemic shutdown. I’ve been poking at it here and there the past five years,… Read More »Embracing the Gifts of Darkness
We often crave answers before we take the first step, but what if the journey itself is the answer? Lately, I’ve been exploring what it means to live as an unfolding mystery—a ‘living bag of pieces,’ as Mark Nepo puts it. For me, this idea of life as an unfolding process has been showing up everywhere—especially in my creative practice… Read More »We Are Breathing Puzzles – why we need spiritual companions in our lives
Well that was a shit election. I didn’t need to watch the needle – last evening’s downcast faces told me all I needed to know. The boom of a lone firework that went off at 11:30pm nearby announced what I knew was coming. The rest of that fitful restless night I tried, and failed, to sleep through the gnawing dread… Read More »On Apocalypses
What is wisdom? How do we discern when we are receiving wisdom that will help us in our lives?
Our SDI publication Listen is online – a reflection on spiritual companionship, and collaboration between Rev Anil Seifu Singh-Molares and myself. SeiFu writes on the Shadow Spiritual Companion – our befriending our own shadow, in order to integrate our darknesses and illuminate our true natures. SeiFu writes, “We usually associate darkness and shadows with fear: of the unknown, of being… Read More »Befriending our shadows – a few new videos and photographs
Let it crumble, it’ll all hold together. Oil on canvas, 18×24”