Daily Poetics

The experience of the sacred is a repulsive experience. Or more accurately: revulsive. It is a casting out of the inner and secret, a showing of the entrails...It is a revelation of the hidden...

Link: Klimt02: deVille, Julia jewelry design unique handmade jewelry images jewelers.

"My jewellery is inspired by the Memento Mori jewellery of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and Victorian Mourning jewellery. I find the

acceptance of death in these periods fascinating.

I work predominately in traditional gold and silversmithing, combined with materials that were once living such as jet, a petrified wood historically used in Victorian Mourning jewellery, human hair and taxidermy. I use these materials as a Memento Mori, or reminder of our mortality.

I incorporate the symbols of death through out my work because I think it is important to identify with the concept that we are in fact, mortal creatures. The nature of our culture is to obsess over planning the future, however in doing so, we forget to enjoy the present.

I consider my taxidermy to be a celebration of life, a preservation of something beautiful. I feel strongly about the fair and just treatment of animals and to accentuate this point I use only animals that have died of natural causes." Julia deVille

Title Quote: Octavio Paz

Hesper, whom the poet call'd the Bringer home of all good things. -Tennyson

Link: Rosalind Davis.

Painting on a combination of fabrics; layering, appliquéing, embroidering fabrics or using printed backgrounds Rosalind Davis enriches the surface and textures of her paintings. Rosalind Davis mainly focuses on urban and natural landscapes and often post-industrial sites as subject matter creating juxtaposition between manmade and the organic, the natural and unnatural. The tactile qualities and surfaces are integral to the theme of each piece evoking a tantalisingly macabre and poetic territory.

"Rosalind Davis utilises textiles as a fundamentally experimental and expressive art.
In addition to creating gallery pieces Rosalind Davis also has a line of art skirts and sculptural accessories which are stocked in exclusive boutiques in London. Considering fashion as an important realm of expression and investigating the deeper and emotional meaning of clothes Rosalind Davis feels that the underlying theme of her work is the representation of internal processes and of the desire to make that which can be viewed as ordinary into something more extraordinary and infused with pathos."

People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. -- Joseph Campbell,

Droog Design.

 

A filled bookcase is the ultimate reflection of the identity of the owner. This bookcase reflects on the moment of acquisition, a selection of important literary works that together provide a high cultural status. By filling up the bookcase, this literature will be replaced by the personal choice of the user

Link: Theosophical Society in America: Creating a Sanctuary for the Soul.

We each enact our own myth. We each set up a soul sanctuary that brings us peace. As Joseph Campbell says in The Power of Myth:

This is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You need a room, or a certain hour or so in a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don't know who your friends are, you don't know what you owe anybody. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.

Where will you build your place of healing and peace and sanctuary for your soul?

Dreams are self-luminous: they shine of themselves...-Joseph Campbell

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Myth is the symbolic language of the human experience, of story and ritual, of dreams and tradition, of poetry and art. Myth links us together, providing crucial context and illumination for understanding the mysteries of existence. Myths are the eternal truths hidden within the heart of the stories we hear, read, and see. Their wisdom guides us to meaning, mental health, and even conflict resolution. But today, people seem to be cut off from their traditional sources of meaning.

"Dreams are self-luminous: they shine of themselves, as gods do. Myths are public dreams. Dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth world in which you live."

~ Joseph Campbell

Sometimes everything has to be enscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you. -David Whyte

 

Joseph Campbell Foundation - Follow Your Bliss.

   

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time. * * * Now, I came to this idea of bliss because in Sanskrit, which is the great spiritual language of the world, there are three terms that represent the brink, the jumping-off place to the ocean of transcendence: sat-chit-ananda. The word "Sat" means being. "Chit" means consciousness. "Ananda" means bliss or rapture. I thought, "I don't know whether my consciousness is proper consciousness or not; I don't know whether what I know of my being is my proper being or not; but I do know where my rapture is. So let me hang on to rapture, and that will bring me both my consciousness and my being." I think it worked. --Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, pp. 113, 120

Never trust the teller, trust the tale. -DH Lawrence

HOTEL FOX.

Playful, romantic and atmospheric, the illustrations of the London designers Container are reminiscent of the distinctive 19th century graphic work of Aubrey Beardsley. Their collages of photographs and ink drawing ‘grow’ across pages, around doorframes, light switches and spread across floors and walls like multidimensional fairy tales that have escaped from their books. They have published in magazines such as Elle and The Face and made their first interior designs for the London department store Selfridges. -Container

Urban views. “The things that we say change us. We change the things that we see. Things get mixed up. Shapes change… Our thoughts about what we have seen are not fixed: we play with them constantly.” In designing his room, Bus concentrated on doing what he says he always does: “Making people understand that we can’t understand anything. That means, in this space for example, that the process of drawing has a random beginning and a random end – in between is unknown territory. Once you let go of form and yourself then everything is free." (via trendcentral)

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. -Nietzsche

Link: Pacifica Graduate Institute | The Roots of Imagination.

...Both the conference and the degree program have been inspired by Joseph Campbell’s belief that, through myth, the inexhaustible energies of the universe pour into human history and culture. It follows that symbol and metaphor add invaluable meaning to our lives, capturing our attention and leading fantasy into imagination...

...In studying and  working with the multidimensional exchanges among the psyche of the individual, the mythologies of the culture, the collective human imagination, and the living planet, depth psychology has an important contribution to bring to the contemporary concerns of our world. It is central to our mission to maintain an open and responsive attitude toward  a future that expresses its longings and wisdom in our dreams and aspirations...

In the very earliest time...A word spoken by chance...would suddenly come alive and what people wanted to happen could happen-alll you had to do was say it...-After Nalungiaq (Eskimo) "Magic Words"

Juliet Sheath - Cascade

A frozen droplet balances on a leaf edge, and then slowly melts revealing its hidden life as it splashes into the rush of a swirling sea.

The droplet collection is inspired by the changing faces of water. Precious gemstones are captured within glass droplets that are suspended from textured silver & 18ct gold in a series of multiples expressing movement. All pieces are hallmarked to British standard and are also available in 18ct gold.  -Juliet Sheath

I say that we are wound with mercy round and round...As if with air. -Gerard Manley

Crochet and tulle lace embroidered with pink and yellow glass beads, gold sequins, a purple velvet pansy and selection of ribbons