Entangled
intersections of thought and reality
July 29 – September 9, 2023
Owen Gallery
a collaborative exhibition by Stephanie Thomas Berry and Alena Applerose
Introduction
I am a lifelong journaler. I might even be a little obsessive: I have a daily journal, a dream journal, but also a diary to record daily events, and a planner. The benefits of my journaling practice have unfolded over my life as a rich source of healing, growth, and discovery.
But at some point in 2022, just as I was beginning a period of particular upheaval that came high-stepping into my life, the practice of words began to fail me. There was something within myself that words couldn’t reach.
So I began visual journaling, trading words for forms and shape to explore my inner self. I let my pencil flow freely with lines that held emotional information, and developed them into forms that had depth and color.
The images and words of this project, expanded upon below, arose from this small beginning into something I couldn’t have anticipated. Not only was the creative work taking me into inner landscapes previously unimagined, but I was also experiencing remarkable synchronicities and profound dreams that shook loose old walls in my psyche and opened the door for the numinous to enter.
Rattlesnake Breaks Open the Basket of Light
A rattlesnake weaves around and breaks open an otherwise one-dimensional sun-like form, creating depth and color. Playing with loops and ribbons in my sketchbook, I had a vision of this…
Love Letter to a May Night
/ A Full Moon shines through a forest creating a dance of color and light. Blue ghost fireflies waver on the forest floor. In May the blue ghost fireflies emerge….
Full Moon Entanglement
The Moon is full, and is surrounded by a halo of silver. My use of iridescent pastels in this piece is to convey the spiritual, unseen aspect of something, and…
Dark Moon Entanglement
A barred owl descends upon a white snake while a dark New Moon is cradled above in an owl-nest. The spiritual aspect of the Moon has turned inward. She has…
Bloodroot and Ants Dreaming Together
A bloodroot flower opens. Ants spiral out from her world, carrying pearls of light. They make a long chain, traveling through other worlds, under and over rivers and oceans, before…
Three Fires
A fire heats strands of DNA that loop upward,which are then struck by lightning,and finally reformed in solar light This was the first piece I did for the Entangled show….
Owl Woman
A barn owl is perched in a blooming hawthorn, a tree of great enchantment and powerful heart medicine. A new moon rises in the thinnest light of dawn. In the…
The Joining
From the night’s stormy heavens a bolt of lightning shatters the dark. Spiralling on the Earth, a great black snake absorbs the electricity and disperses it around her body in…
Medicine Women Tend to Grief
It’s Sunday and I have to slow down. It’s been go, go, go all week, despite the rain, and it will be go, go, go all next week too. And…
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