A Dreamwork-Style Analogy of Color | Blue

Blue feels like cold lips pressed against your skin on a winter’s day. Blue is fog on the windshield even after you’ve turned on the air. It’s the color of drowning, of clarity, of desperation, of life. Blue is spiritual, like water. Blue is a fountain of begetting. Blue is change.

The Disembodied Mother

Depth Psychology mirrors Art’s ‘unintentional’ exclusion of mothers; all of the founding women scholars of Jungian psychology were childless; Marion Woodman, Toni Wolff, Marie Louise Von Franz, Hannah Barbara, Aniela Jaffe, Esther Harding, just to name a few. Many of these women contributed to the Jungian theory concept of the Mother Archetype, while, like the men of Jungian theory, lacking any embodied experience (the expectations, limitations, and dichotomies) of mothering children.

The Passion of Bane | Reclaiming What was Lost through Dreamwork in The Image of My Son

The picture becomes a tangible symbol of a shared quality – expressed differently in him than in me – that connects us. In this light, the photograph becomes an alchemical artifact that bridges mind and matter.

Samson in Reverse: A Ritual Shedding | Alberta Fine Art Photographer

When I was 21, I cut all my hair off in a hotel room because god told me to. part one Weeping so hard I could not see through the tears, I handed the scissors over to my eldest cousin to help. When it was finished, my hair only an inch long, all I could […]

The Beginning; A Feminine Awakening | Alberta Womanhood Photographer

I also started deconstructing my Christian belief system and as those towers crumbled I found myself, like Medea, asking “How do you soothe utter desolation? How do you…stand among the ruins of your home?”