LIFE IS A LABYRINTH
It is a winding path of woven threads.
You gather these strings to lead yourself to the center, the heart of Resolution, the revelation of Opening.
The drawings and thoughts, rendered on retreat in Mexico, speak to the differing places of pathfinding, their challenges and discoveries.
Direction
THE SOUTH
The Heart
The Flourishing
The Everpresence
The Summer
THE EAST
The Emergence
The Opening
The Revelation
The Spring
THE WEST
The Settling
The Casting Off
The Pause
The Fall
THE NORTH
The Hardening
The Foundation
The Stillness
The Winter
Mountain
Mountains express our ascent, our footpath into a new scene, a journey which can be difficult, dangerous, but in the end, might offer a new vista or viewpoint. In conclusion, the Mountain Series leads us to accomplishments, which allow us to focus on new directions.
ASCENT
The upward path
Crossing a difficulty
Turning back
PRECIPICE
The dangerous passage
Realizing risk
Falling
PINNACLE
Completion of a stage
Seeing in many directions
Not moving to the next vista
PORTAL
Discovering a way
See an opening
Fearing the passa
Forest
The Forest can express growth and luxuriance, as the verdant path at our feet and the far reaches of green richness above. The forest can be bountiful or, in the fall and winter, bare and silent. It can lead to a sense of revelation, of the plentiful and the barren, or to the mystery of losing one’s way and entanglement.
NARROW PATH
Walking the known way
Focusing on the moment
Rigidity
ENTANGLEMENT
A way of no easy escape
Cutting the binding
Fear
THIRST
Seeking replenishment
Fulfillment
Poisoning
LOST
A time of questioning
Exploring the uncharted
Disappearance
Desert
The Desert explores the path of the wide-open way. Even though the horizon seems limitless, there’s a path we can follow. We need to choose our way, avoid the mirage, seek the truth. This can be a pathway of parching discomfort or one of discovering unforeseen wealth that is revealed only after a difficult journey.
DISTANCE
The pathless way
Freedom
Loneliness
OASIS
Restoration
Respite
Pausing on the path
CARAVAN
Perceiving the link
A sense of connection
Remaining distant
MIRAGE
Seeing falsehood
Experiencing the supernatural
Unfulfillmen
Cave
The Cave is a place of subterranean excavation; we are digging in and uncovering. It is an inner world – a realm beneath the surface – a cocoon of nurturing and maturation. It is a place of foreboding and darkness, a womb of self-discovery.
BURROW
The inward journey
Exploring the self
Retreat from the real
STALAGMITE
Uncovering an insight
An opening discovery
Binding fascination
CAULDRON
Firing the furnace
Creative fusion
Immolation
SEA CAVERN
The hardened and the fluid
Opening to flow
Obstruction
Sea
The Sea captures the spirit of liquidity and flow. It is a symbol of resilient complexity and transition; with moods ranging from quietude to surging change and chaos; it shifts from the peaceful to the storm-tossed.
RHYTHM
Listening to the waves
A flowing quietude
Illusion
CHAOS
Embroiled in the storm
A cleansing recharge
Destruction of knowledge
SWIMMING
Immersion in life
Finding the flow
Drowning
WATERSPOUT
Understanding integration
As above, so below
Evaporation
Air
The Air explores both lightness and darkness. The aerious spirit is not only about purity and clarity, but also cloudiness and mist. To live, we experience its sensate presence all around us. We learn to appreciate the potent revelations of the air, replete with the beautiful nocturnal darkness and the brilliance of the sunlit realm.
OBSERVATION
Circumspection
Peacefulness
Failing to move
NIGHT SKY
Seeing the beauty of darkness
Awakening
Unknowing
WHIRLWIND
Agency of change
Repositioning
Asphyxia
HORIZON SUN
The beginning ending
The finishing start
Giving up
Fire
The Fire is about warmth of providing a nurturing, comforting presence, but inversely, the firelight speaks to transformation, and potentially, destruction. It is the crucible, its contact can warm or burn. And the flame of humanity makes connections, melds disparate forces, liquefies the frozen and annihilates the unprepared.
IGNITION
An insight
Collaboration
Isolation
BLAZE
Making contact
Empathy
Envy
EXTINGUISHMENT
Sensing transition
Disconnection
Complacency
ICEFIRE
Seeking the other self
Communion
Disintegration