Shudderswan

//shadow// //carnival// //monsterhood// //forest// //attempts at flight// //fishbowl universe of consciousness// //textures of a nest// //sketched cartography// //metamorphosis//

sewing & embroidery, sketching, experimenting with paper & fiber

purslane // beech trees // Bowerbirds // fish // narrative // New Mexico // moon // river ocean lake rain // Tibet // Green Bodhisattva // puppets // pottery // weaving // hanging things // foraging // fermentation // possums // moths // deities & ritual // cello & spanish bagpipes // chapbooks // wet pebble gray, moss green, bruise purple, teal blue // hiding places for small things //

Eco-poetics. Deep Ecology. Religious Pluralism. Identity Fluidity & Hybridity. Liminality. Local Living. Community Engagement. Permaculture. Art & Handicrafts. Tibetan Studies. Natural Healing & Holistic Health.

Annie Dillard, Pablo Neruda, Susan Sontag, Clarice Lispector, Vladimir Nabakov, Catherine Keller, Bruno Schulz, Virginia Woolf, Olga Broumas, Herman Hesse, Jorge Luis Borges, Rainer Maria Rilke, George Orwell, Rebecca Solnit, Federico Garcia Lorca, Yehudit Hendel

The Winged Seed // Scrimmage of Appetite // The Spell of the Sensuous // Wild Form & Savage Grammar

(There is no dead matter. Lifelessness is only a facade concealing forms unknown to us. -- Bruno Schulz)

(Big sky beats at the windows and begs itself in and fills the eyes with light and space and imagines itself a soul in here, in the smallest place. -- Li Young Lee)

Bon Iver, Joanna Newsom, Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Radical Face, Yann Tiersen, Ravel, Olafur Arnalds, Emily Wells, Bjork, CocoRosie, Neutral Milk Hotel, Horse Feathers

Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Waking Life, Spirited Away, The Quarrel, Good Will Hunting, Before Sunrise, Pride & Prejudice (1995), Dead Poet's Society, Into the Wild, Donnie Darko

earrings // food & recipes // pop characters (Hello Kitty, Disney, ect.) // neon, glitter, pastel // fairy, princess, cutesy, ect. // leather

compass or sundial // handwoven fabric // rainstick // kaleidoscope