Ceremonial Spaces, mixed media, 2021 All three of the collages featured in this post were assembled within the past week (I made Ceremonial Spaces and You're a Dream this morning.). And I realized, as I was looking through them this afternoon, that they seemed to jive both aesthetically and conceptually with some of the poetry [...]
Tag: feminine
Woman No. 5 and Other Nude Art
Woman No. 5, mixed media, 2021 I recently acquired some fun new source materials, including a book titled, 1000 Nudes: A History of Erotic Photography from 1839-1939. And I have to say, it's a lovely book. The introduction gives a brief but informative history of the first erotic photographs, and the images are of a [...]
Of Sacred Seasons
This is time of year, my creativity seems to transform. Becomes almost corporeal—that is, more hands-on, more nurturing, more intensely connected to the rhythms of nature. Instead of spending my days in the writing room tinkering with poetry or experiments in collage, I find myself outdoors tending to the garden, to the wildlife that lives [...]
Of the Sacred Feminine
Something happened to me after my last post. Something clicked. I’ve got to chuckle because, after all this time—after having ceased exploring my femininity many months ago and setting my sights on what I considered vastly different horizons—I find myself here. Writing a post titled, “Of the Sacred Feminine.” It’s funny how projects like this [...]
Blink.
I continue to be surprised by the writings of Abraham Maslow. No more, perhaps, than by the depth of his interest in the intricacies of human sexuality. (Who knew?) In masculinity and femininity and their relationships to human motivation, creativity, growth, and self-knowledge. It was, in fact, from a brief analysis of male-female courtship or [...]
When You Need to Be Pampered…
After publishing Fishtail, I entertained the possibility that my journey into the feminine dimensions of my consciousness had, for all practical purposes, ended. That my experiment in locating the essence of my femininity would culminate there, in a series of self-identified states, desires, and creative urges. In a love of process. Blocked from further progress [...]
On Being a Femme Fatale
In On the Art of Femininity, I suggest that, in and of itself, the feminine is "enough." That it represents a totality. One which seeks in its opposite not completion, but a full complement. As in the joining of two people, the intertwining of forces in an intimate relationship, another kind of wholeness. And one [...]
On Erotic Self-Awareness
I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me—the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, like a country, [...]
On Wanting to Be Submissive
The deeper I immerse myself in the writings of psychologist, Otto Rank, the greater an affinity I develop for both the thinker and the man. Although, to be sure, the most interesting portrait of the doctor I’ve found comes not from his own writings, but from the diary of Anaïs Nin, with whom he had [...]
On Wanting to Be Wanted
I am currently making my way through, among other pertinent reads, Otto Rank’s, Beyond Psychology. (Additionally, I have decided to include an up-to-date list of books I am reading under the main menu/sidebar for anyone who is interested in doing their own reading on the topics discussed here. I was inspired to do so by [...]
The Used Life 