Dear Boy:
Your latest work reminded me of a paragraph from Rachel Pollack's Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom, a book on Tarot that I recently recommended to someone. Here she discusses Trump 2, the High Priestess:
People often link passive with 'negative' or that is, inferior and weak. But passivity contains its own power. It gives the mind a chance to work. People who only know action never get a chance to reflect on what that action has taught them. In a deeper sense, passivity allows the unconcsious to emerge. Only through withdrawal from outer involvement can we allow the inner voice of vision and psychic forces to speak to us. It is precisely to avoid this inner voice that many people never rest from action and movement. Our society, based completely on outer achievement, fosters a terror of the unonscious, yet without its wisdom we can never fully know ourselves or the world.
How interesting that I read that paragraph last night and found your artwork on Barbelith this morning.
(That being said, my cats never, ever sleep.) |
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