Myth & Magick: The Writer

Completed January 2011.
9"x12"; pen&ink on watercolor paper.
This is about the experience of writing, when the process suddenly eases and the words begin to flow. Inspired by my experience in the Goddess Circle, with a group of amazing women working through "The Artist's Way" together.
The phrases written into this piece are pretty hard to decipher even in the original, but they read:
Read my blog post about this piece.
Prints are available at my Redbubble site.
9"x12"; pen&ink on watercolor paper.
This is about the experience of writing, when the process suddenly eases and the words begin to flow. Inspired by my experience in the Goddess Circle, with a group of amazing women working through "The Artist's Way" together.
The phrases written into this piece are pretty hard to decipher even in the original, but they read:
- words that stream sweet and soft and slippery as silk from my fingers soul sundering wonder and shivering power, silvery flower of my self unfurled
- bold words that thunder through snow and shatter iron
- twisted words that tangle and strip and wither thoughts before they even begin
- tiny words still flow like water droplets from icicle tips in the raw chill of spring melt
- shadow words half-felt fading like dreams
- words that scramble into gibberish when I look to close clawing themselves to pieces like spiders if spisljlkjgahr glajhgakjelag
- ideas blowing over and through my brain like Medusa's tentacles striving for air strangling for room to breathe and thrive and grow and be seen
Read my blog post about this piece.
Prints are available at my Redbubble site.