Teresa Bockhold: Feng Shui (Pt.2)

The interpenetration and influence of the inner and outer realms and the metaphysics behind feng shui are discussed by Teresa Bockold in conversation with Carol Sill.

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Soul Work (pt.2) with Forest Shomer

Soul Work involves speaking and living from the soul, and both group and individual process. Forest Shomer continues his discussion with Carol Sill, describing an upcoming gathering in central Argentina.

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Collage 911

This collage series was created in the month just before 9/11 and I put it up on slideshare a few years ago.

Here’s a bit more description for many of the collages included in the slideshow.

Emergence of the Serpent of Wisdom
This collage was the first in a series that literally burst through. I hadn’t done any collages since the 80s, and suddenly restless, I created a series with many dark images. Strangely, they comforted me. The series began in late August 2001, and the revelation of the serpent force was totally unexpected and unplanned. I had wanted to show only a window revelation into another reality, but the articulated being appeared. I felt it was a shamanic communication, so I followed that lead and created the series as shown here. They are like astral snapshots.

The Old Country
I envisioned this as a northern Scandinavian afterlife, where souls arrive to be transported to other levels. The ancient dolmen, the hanged man, the boat of souls in the crisp cold sky somehow connect me to my dad’s side of the family. Here the supplicant approaches the ruler of this afterlife.

From the Stars
Here the eternal feminine forces of moon and water bring messages to earth in a procession pouring downward like a waterfall. Priestesses bear golden bowls, cups fill to overflowing, the mysterious planetary forces beam into our lives

The Oracle
The masculine force of the oracle predicts the future. His realm is one of magnificent glorious interplay of form. He is embedded in it, and in all he sees. His companion spirits flank him on either side. They open their mouths to articulate his vision, and he speaks the words which predict the future.

Dolphins and Dolmen
On earth, tourists see dolphins on land, leaping in communication with the ancient dolmen. Unconnected, they can only observe. Magic is afoot.

Goose Girl in the Stars
Far from earth, a part of the great mother archetype looks after things. This young girl, tending geese with her starwand, is known for her “healing, performing miracles and teaching” while the magnetism of the earth remains in her view.

Mysterious Stranger
One of these things is not like the others. On the horizon, he sends his energy ball to glide along the path, while planetary storms brew behind. On the right, human remains lie folded in an ancient grave. Standing with him are the glittering saints. The stranger stands as one of them, but has he come from somewhere beyond, and far more primitive?

Near the End of Time
I had put together a collage before this one, but for some reason could not bear to complete it. Disturbed, I went instead to this integrated image of dangers unleashed into the world. As death extends technological dangers over a wasted sea, engineers in offices seem to map the complexities of disaster. Hope, in the form of the Buddha’s understanding, adds balance to a dark vision.

Miracle of Science
The virgin Mary is resurrected by scientists. Elevated against a grey moon, she is reconfigured by machine projections, monitored by banks of data controls. Believers with hands up grieve her death and pray for her. The resurrected self is a colourless figure, an overworked factory child.

Declaration of War
This hot blood red image nearly completed the series. I had hesitated to commit to it, and did the others in the series. Then 9/11 happened, and I knew then that the imagery had been true. I finalized this image of war. Mars influences the blood-covered demonic celebrant as he emerges screaming from the cannon. Warlike peoples march on the earth carrying kings as the hand fate has dealt is enacted. Red tentacles enter the scene and a beam from the cosmos glows like an evil eye, while the red volcano erupts and lava flows.

Let’s Rock
The world is tilted, off kilter. Waves crash and buildings topple, while Tibetan shamanic dancers tell the tale in movement. Above, in a pavilion, a rock band pounds out the tune. It is a cosmic unbalance, and world rocks to find equllibrium.

Most of these images can also be viewed individually here on Flickr.

Retrieving the Ancient, and The Language of Art

James K-M talks with Carol Sill about art and retrieving the ancient.

“We, the artists, have to appreciate that our materials already come with their own languages embedded inside of them. So our materials are already expressing themselves. So the artist interfaces with the being of the material.”

* On the roofdeck, background sound is of the busy street below.
Link here for the text version of this conversation.

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