"I am the Amazon"...!!!....This world needs Artists. This article really captured everything...and i mean everything...the true definition of Art and what it means for humanity. How much we NEED all forms of Art...poetry, music, dance, theatre, painting! Finally. Sigh. This is so beautiful, indepth and clear writing! How refreshing.. Love, Love Looooove it. I really really enjoyed the style and expression. Will read more of Jay Griffith, for sure.
some quotes from the Forests of the Mind...Jay Griffith...
---"Shape-shifting is a transgressive experience, a crossing over: something flickers inside the psyche, a restless flame in a gust of wind, endlessly transformative. The mind moves from its literal pathways to its metaphoric flights. Art is made like this, from a volatile bewitchment, of a self-forgetting and an identification with something beyond."
---"In making art, the artist expires, breathing herself out to allow the inspiring to happen, the breathing in of glinting universal air, intelligent with many minds, electric and on the loose. Artist, shape-shifter, shaman or poet, all are lovers of metamorphosis, all are minded to vision, insight and dream."
---"Only a metaphor seemed a craft strong enough for me to cling to, a boat to carry my grief across the sea to someone else's mind"
Read full article here: Forests of the Mind --Jay Griffith
http://www.aeonmagazine.com/oceanic-feeling/jay-griffiths-shamanism-metaphorv1/
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