ALCHEMY OF HEART, 2011

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Day 5

 

Beauty and Horror,

Hostile and comforting,

Intense and spare

is the land of heart.

 

......was the day full of intensity and contradiction. In the space of 5 hours I  experienced a great inner joy and happiness of being alive but also an intense feeling of dread and of being threatened by people as well as the force of nature. I  saw and felt the beauty and horror at the same time.I walked through silent bogs, with only bird song echoing over it in an irregular sound. I walked in a majestic deep forest. I climbed a mountain through a dead forest with the skeletons of the trees and the ghosts of  violent history looming within it. I was followed by a stranger. When I reached the top of mountain I got caught in a thunder storm and hale stone with lightening flying all around my head. I crawled down paths that had turned into streams and bogs. Slipped and cut my leg open. Kept walking. Saw rainbow. Then the sun came out. I went to sleep in a meadow watching the brooding skies and the clouds swirling around the mountain I  climbed earlier. I felt comforted by the fact there is no human soul within 20 mile radius around me but I also felt incredibly scared and overpowered by solitude and my own mortality.

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Materials – needles, clear cast resin