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Listen, Play, Leap

5/18/2014

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Picture
as yet unnamed for my exhibition
i have big news.

I am having my first solo exhibition in two weeks.  It is very spur of the moment, They had a gap and so i got brave and said "can i have that space?" 

This is bloody nerve wracking because although i have long wanted to stand up and offer my work out to the world in this way.... well it requires me to stand up and offer my work out into the world in that way!

I mean little peices of my soul will be up there on the wall to be judged and dissected.

That is part of what an exhibition is about.

But it is more than that - it is a chance to stand up. To back myself.  To stop imagining what it might feel like and actually do it.

Yes i don't have a huge body of work.  Yes i could be better prepared.  Yes ideally i would have done other things.

But the chance doesn't feel coincidental.

I have been making art around the theme of shadow for some time now.  The work i am doing with my beautiful, soon to be born self study course has been rich and fertile soil for all kinds of soul seeds.

So the theme for the exhibition, which is called "From the Shadow" was there.  A technique i learnt with the wonderful Judy Wise just made me gasp when i saw the possibilities and i began to play with the idea a while before the chance came up.

And there you have it.

What seems to be the crucial componants of making magic in my world.  Listening, playing, leaping.

I listened to the inspiration my soul work was feeding me, i played around with some ideas and when the chance came i leapt.

Listen
Play.
Leap.

This morning i had my 6th art journalling workshop here in my hometown.  (Which was another listen play leap experience, but a whole other story.)

We were working on our theme (from Dr Estes' list of how wolves live their lives) of "Cavil* in the Moonlight"  Very appropriate given the massive moon that has been stirring my pot, and the family bickering.

Each of us in the circle had ideas about Cavilling and yet our work could not have been different. some of us saw the layers and how deep a tiny bicker can dig, there were paintings of layers, of pecking birds, of aging backwards and forwards through time.

When we took the time to turn up for ourselves to the creative process magic happened.  We listened to the theme, listened to what wanted to happen, we played with our tools and what turned up, and we could leap into a new way of framing things, of seeing what in the beginning had been troublesome.

LISTEN
PLAY 
LEAP.

I would love to hear your listen, play, leap stories.

I just listened to an idea... how about you play with me by writing a listen, play, leap story from your own life in the comments and i will draw someone to do an ogham or Patupaiarehe reading for.

You have listened now let's play a

*to cavil is to bicker, fight, whinge.

8 Comments
sorrow
5/19/2014 03:45:19 am

The words you share hear, make it hard for e to imagine a women who doesn't always listen, play and leap.
There is never a faltering in the light that shimmers in your words, your art.
It is amazing to me, you share so much of yourself, that is real and beautiful, what do you do when you are not listening, playing or leaping?
Your shadow self is an interesting women, that is for sure...
:)

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jane
5/19/2014 04:59:22 am

I think I would like to build a listen, play leap practise Sorrow. Sometimes it is more like sit and mither sometimes it is listen to the mean voices... in both cases nothing nourishing happens but with Listen, Play, Leap there is always good... that is partly why I wrote this - I want people to know that this simple recipe can cook up a life-feast second to none <3 I think you are a LPL'er from way back btw.

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Lisa link
5/19/2014 05:13:57 am

For me, I think it has been a bit of Listen.Leap.Play.Trust ... the times I have had a flash, a moment of YES, this is IT I usually have to act immediately so that I don't second guess myself. Well, I DO that as well but it goes better if I've already made the leap. Then I have to do the play :) I think you know my many stories :) The one keeps spooling out, chapter after chapter, leap after leap. xo

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Gem
5/19/2014 07:05:26 am

This is wonderful, Janey! I love your artwork. It has so many layers to it. I think you'll do well!

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marian
5/20/2014 05:57:24 am

Wonderful news and a brave process you share here, kind friend! You know how sacred listening is for me... not just to the music, but moreso to the story behind and story in the music. So, yes, from the 'listening to' and 'gathering of' stories, comes the creative step: to hold those stories until the larger one emerges... and then to find the music, texts, and images to create that 'story concert.' It's a creative 'leap' but a blessed journey from darkness into light. Thanks for sharing your news and process with us, Jane, and blessings as you move forward!

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Peggie link
5/20/2014 06:33:16 am

Delightful Jane! So excited to see you claiming your light!

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Shauna
5/20/2014 08:14:20 am

sending a million blessings to you in your new stepping out! today's listen, play, leap story involved ditching the day job to run to mama ocean who had been calling my name all week, playing in the wind and clean, bright air, and the leap...the leap was setting the date to leave said day job...easy peasy (after like months of much caviling!)

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jane
6/28/2014 06:18:13 am

I have just regrouped enough to draw a winner for this (sorry for the tardiness i am just grateful to still be in one piece after all that ensued after this) and the winner is .... Shauna <3

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