CC Jean Stimmell: 5/22/13 |
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CC Jean Stimmell: 5/22/13 |
A space to share my writing, images, and quotations around indigenous, philosophical, sustainable, and spiritual themes to facilitate dialogue and encourage creative exploration.
These "poetic essays" give primacy to artfulness over the conveying of information. They forsake narrative line, discursive logic, and the art of persuasion in favor of idiosyncratic meditation...
The lyric essay does not expound. It may merely mention…Generally it is short, concise and punchy like a prose poem. But it may meander, making use of other genres when they serve its purpose: recombinant, it samples the techniques of fiction, drama, journalism, song, and film [or image]…
The lyric essay often accretes by fragments, taking shape mosaically - its import visible only when one stands back and sees it whole. The stories it tells may be no more than metaphors. Or, storyless, it may spiral in on itself, circling the core of a single image or idea, without climax...
Perhaps we're drawn to the lyric now because it seems less possible (and rewarding) to approach the world through the front door, through the myth of objectivity. The life span of a fact is shrinking… We turn to the artist to reconcoct meaning from the bombardments of experience… For more, click on: Lyric Essay
I believe that reality, as we perceive it, is socially constructed: We create meaning in our lives through the stories we tell.
“While modernist thinkers tend to be concerned with facts and rules, postmodernists are concerned with meaning. In their search for and examination of meaning, postmodernists finds metaphors from the humanities more useful than the modernist metaphors or nineteenth-century physical science.” Quote from "Narrative Therapy" by Freedman and Combs (1996) p. 22.
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If only when I was four years old i was taught to make masks. Your masks I've seen speak for themselves. They have beauty, power and a voice.
When I was four years old I was told you are as you appear and that will forever be who you are.
It was years later I learned, we are the mask we speak through - and for those without a mask, those unable to make masks, we are but food for the fish.
Sure, not a comforting thought. But at the last moment I found some seaweed... and made it into something I never imaged I could be. I learned the art. I also learned the art is forbidden, and one must never admit to being a mask-maker.
Fascinating, your art of making masks, your skill with clay.
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