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5/7/2020 0 Comments

Introducing the Dialogues with Nature Network

A few months ago, I was invited by someone I follow on Instagram to find out about their idea for a new kind of network.
One thing led to another, and I have come to know artist Hanna Varga and those who have gathered around her in support of vision for a new kind of creative support network.

Network Founder, Hanna Varga says: "Over the past 3 months I’ve been working behind the scenes with a handful of remarkable, creative people passionate about nature to weave the fabric of a new kind of online creative support network. A platform that can connect us to each other and to nature. A place that nurtures curiosity at its heart.

This week we will stretch this blank canvas we made, hold it between us and see who will come and join us to paint their imagination onto it."

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28/3/2020 0 Comments

Maija Liepins' Starflowers at Sandham, Berkshire

Sandham Memorial Chapel
Burghclere
'Saturated Space', 11-29 March 2020
a CAS group exhibition
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For Maija, granddaughter of Latvian refugees, the starflower is a variation of the latvian Auseklis an eight pointed star. When spiritual meaning of symbolic language is obscured by war-torn passages of time there comes a call to put the pieces back together using air, fire, earth, water.

A stream from my notebook:
“I am a river of life
A liquid courage
Daring to pour myself
Into this life, to see you
Sparking, blooming,
Blazing alight and
Yet so quickly burnt out
So easily exhausted of my vigour
.
I am the limitless stream
Of living breath
Of waking dream
Of creative mattering
Actively becoming in you
.
History’s fields of planted
Ghosts, a testament
To endings
Bookends on a chapter of
Why?
Why rush so valiantly
To crush the flower
?
The sacred found in the every day:
It lives in you
Protect your creations
And honour the flower
Blooming in your soul.

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Maija Liepins is an artist who has been writing stream-of-consciousness poetry since she was fifteen. She practices what Jung calls 'active imagination' which is similar, but with dreams instead of words. Improvisation has led her to add sound and embodied movement to the mix.

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