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All Creative Process Creativity In Motion Elemental Insight News Poetry #TheArtistsToolbox The Dream Forest

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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