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sometimes the best thing to do is to go back to what has worked before, start the cycle again, get strength from the familiar and hope to take off from there.

reading has always been an important part of my process in the studio, though not as much lately. with the realization of how deeply my last series of work was rooted in what i have studied in the past, i am inclined to go back to that place which has proved so fertile before. for me, there is great comfort in books, they are sometimes the only place where i can find a "rightness" to the wrong.



"We ordinarily experience such things only in dreams, but under certain circumstances the 'stuff as dreams are made on' appears before the inner eye as if it were objectively real and really happening. Such experiences do have an emotional reality, and they can affect the individuals profoundly, perhaps causing a deep and permanent transformation of their personality.

This experience portrayed on the walls of the Villa represents such an inner ritual, whose counterpart can be observed today only as a secret and subjective happening of an entirely psychological nature."

m. esther harding
introduction to Women's Dionysian Initiation, The Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii
a guide to the depths of the female psyche