Finding the Horizon

Laura Kerr, an artist and teacher of mixed media and experimental art, talks about the theory of the horizon and how it is important to all kinds of work, including aviation, navigation and art. The bone structure of land must always meet the sky at some point, and from this place, at least for me, that is where the art decides if it is going to try landing or flying. I don't have it all worked out but it seems that the mind wants to fly and the body needs to return to the ground – not only in death but in life too. Mind and body tend to go together in this world but they need not. To separate these two is to find the horizon and disappear.

Very few things are as soothing for me as watching steam rise from tea in morning sunlight. My earthly eye is an embodied device. It is my mind which creates and so it is my mind I should heal and change, not my body. I am beginning to move from dense footsteps in the snow towards the unadulterated light dazzling in all directions. One's eye can look around the world and see the defilement of all that is sacred, but it is possible to immediately look towards Atonement instead. The spiritual eye sees Love. I can see Love in all things. But first I must look at that which has been desecrated so that what is true and eternal can correct the tainted vision.

School shootings – unspoiled snowfall in sunlight – stitches marching across my finger like little black ants. Time to correct.

M. spoke of all the animals coming to her in shapes and colors like those represented in indigenous totems. So many eagles. So many talons. The mushrooms are speaking even before we meet. In a dream they asked me to gently wait; so I do.