Friday, August 3, 2018

MOURNING DOVES, MORNING GLORIES, AND JUNG'S EGG


Cotton and metallic embroidery threads
on antique linen
Art 11" diameter
Cloth 14"x 14"


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From CG Jung's Red Book
The "Incantations"

Oh
light of the middle way,
enclosed in the egg,
embryonic,
full of ardor, oppressed.
Fully expectant,
dreamlike, awaiting lost memories.
As heavy as stone, hardened.
Molten, transparent.
Streaming bright, coiled on itself.

--verse 52/53


We asked the earth.
We asked the heaven.
We asked the sea.
We asked the wind.
We asked the fire.
We looked for you with all the peoples.
We looked for you with all the kings.
We looked for you with all the wise.
We looked for you in our own heads and hearts.
And we found you in the egg.
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-verse 59/60