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Dancing the New World Into Being

Leave a Comment / SoulCollage®, evolution, transformation / Claire Perkins

In the summer of 2020, I took an online experiential workshop with Robert Moss called Goddesses of Rebirth. We learned about a number of goddesses and their mythologies, and journeyed into dream-like states to weave our own personal mythologies through and around those of the goddesses. I created this SoulCollage® card from one of my […]

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Woman walking down a black and white checkered corridor, under a sign that says Do Not Obey in Advance, toward a brilliantly lit night sky and a glowing peace dove.

Are You A Rule Follower or A Rebel?

Leave a Comment / transformation, justice, resistance / Claire Perkins

Sometime in the late ‘80s, I took my kids to a local science center. There was one exhibit that still sticks in my mind all these years later. It was a simple setup. There was a corridor with a black and white checkered floor leading to a table display at the far end. At the

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SoulCollage(R) Reaching For a New World

Reaching For a New World

Leave a Comment / poetry, SoulCollage®, transformation / Claire Perkins

Here’s my newest SoulCollage(R) card, Reaching Toward a New World. I made it this morning to illustrate a poem, titled Risking Everything, that I wrote in 2008. When I wrote that poem, I was at a dream retreat with Robert Moss at the beautiful Mosswood Hollow in the green forests of Washington state. The imagery

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Transcending The Storm

Stillness and Chaos

Leave a Comment / transformation, awakening, evolution / Claire Perkins

When I studied expressive arts with Lucia Capacchione, one of the modalities we used was dancing, drawing and sculpting to the 5 Rhythms of Gabrielle Roth. These rhythms are Flowing Staccato Chaos Lyrical Stillness® Lucia always likened the full flow of the 5 Rhythms to the process of creativity. Flowing is when an idea comes

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Tree of Life

4 Comments / art, Fallen, the Adventures of a Deep Water Leaf / Claire Perkins

I didn’t have a set plan when I started this piece. I rarely do. What I had was a precut Tree of Life substrate and a collection of materials I’ve gathered over the years: beads, brooches, baubles . . . and flowers. So. Many. Flowers. At first, I imagined filling the entire canopy with blooms.

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