~an online workshop for artists and non-artists
Using the form of the Altered Book as a ‘canvas’, participants will take a guided dive into the Jungian-based practice of Depth Psychological Inquiry. Explorations of archetypes, myths and personal symbology will provide imagery and inspiration for your book, resulting in an accessible and rewarding Creative Practice that can be continued and nourished after the workshop ends.
workshop participant c. mcgown
altered book ~ altered self
August 2023 ~ We cross thresholds all the time. Sometimes it is in the simplicity of walking through a door, moving from one room to another. Other times we are moving between significant or symbolic changes in our lives, the end of something known to what comes next and is unknown to us. We mark these occasions as they "happen to us" and other times I would suggest, we invite them in.
These are such times. Our country, indeed our planet is at a threshold. In this collective shift, what has shifted in you? How can you reanimate your own being in these times we are now living?
“The river where you set your foot just now is gone ~Those waters giving way to this, now this.” ~heraclitus
Sit with your friends; don’t go back to sleep. Don’t sink like fish to the bottom of the sea. life’s water flows from darkness. Search the darkness, don’t run from it. night travelers are full of light, and you are , too; don’t leave this companionship. ~jalal ad-din muhammad rumi
