The Wild Mother

2019, Digital Art / Visual Poetry
Duration: 9.45 minutes

​​​About

Maija Liepins, has collected sounds and other sensory impressions on film during her daily walks and layered them together with poetry to create a meditative and elemental experience. The artists hands and figure, present in the work, invite you on an intimate journey beyond the garden gate and into the woods where dreams and magic may be found.

With the presence of the ‘wild mother’ (an antidote to what Clarissa Estes calls the ‘too good mother’) Maija attempts to stir ones ‘inner world’. As the weather transforms, so too does ones feelings. It’s almost as if she is making visible the layers of inner and outer experience in one frame. 

​“Sometimes it feels like I am collaborating with the weather, and the software! I get all sorts of surprises when I combine them, they’re really very co-operative, always weaving themselves together as if I had planned it to a T.”

​Poetry

The film includes three visual poems, some include spoken-word poetry, others are elemental and sensory.

Timestamps below.

​0.01 - Mother hands - spoken
1.24 - Raindrops
2.39 - Paperclips - spoken
3.50 - Storm Re-weathered - spoken
5.11 - Breath
7.27 - Yewtree
8.32 - Frozen Puddles

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