THE WILD TIDES OF CREATIVE PROCESS: A JOURNEY INTO THE WILD MOTHER OF CYCLES IN ARTISTRY

Thursday August 7th

7:00-8:30 pm MDT

recording available for 1 week

$25

Calling all creators, visionaries, craft-lovers, shepherds of projects and beauty, makers of all kinds…In this 90 minute session, Sarah will offer an engaging storytelling of the full cosmological and creative wheel, of cycles and elements  as pertains to creative work, and give time and space for participants to lay their projects down next to this map of tides and cycles to glean essential insight into their creative process and the current life cycle of their projects.  This talk is open to anyone and everyone who is creating in the world (hint hint, which is all of us).

 The mother of all creation and artistry is a wild and pulsing tide that keeps to life’s moving rhythm of cycles. The Wild Mother of cycles is always afoot, having her wild way with us and our creative projects, artistry and expression. How might you come more deeply into your artistry if you understood and sensed your work through the cosmological lens of nature, specifically the lens of Daoism and Chinese 5 Elements. How might your work be fed by attuning to cycles and elements in a more rhythmic way? What is the difference between a true Winter of Incubation, and crippling effect of the internal predator and critic that renders you lifeless in the face of your work? What is the difference between the rumble of a rich creative eruption and the saboteur of never finishing anything? What would happen to your craft if you gave way to the Wild Mother of cycles. 

Sarah first gave this talk- specifically geared toward creators- to a room full of her fellow writers and artists during her writing residency at The Vermont Studio Center in 2024. Painters, weavers, sculptors, photographers, poets, writers, welders, quilters….The reception from this international multi-disciplinary audience was overwhlemingly positive. The room was buzzing and alight with the special kind of fire that kindles in the presence of humans dedicated to their art, to the shepherding of color, canvas, words, fiber, clay, metal, vision, stories and form. Sarah still hears from those writers and artists today about how that conversation changed, and continues to influence,  their relationship to their work in meaningful and life giving ways.