Projects | Appalachian Season
Although its first production - apart from the website - was a piece of ritual musical theatre, Appalachian Season has been intended from the beginning to be a production site for ideas realted to bioregional awareness, inner evolution, collective visioning, and artistic expression. This website is a container for that song.
Embodying the spirit of the French Broad River, with a fellow performer playing a literary heroine from 1890's-era rural Appalachia, at a private reception for the Wilma Dyckman Legacy. Click the title above for more information.
The Spirit of the Blue Ridge is a Creature I am creating for the bioregion. It is also a Gestalt I am exploring.
This iconic archetype stands for Mountain, Forest, and Stream. Tree-River Spirit, wind through pines, locust flower blossoms in spring, Mosquitos, Black Bear lightning skies. Moon strung with clouds and rain, hail, sleet, snow, sun, colors. The overcast sky. Waterfalls. Autumn leaves...
2014- Asheville Sacred Spaces
I don't know whether to make Sacred Places a "Group" or a "Cause" on Facebook... or how to set it up yet to make it profitable to myself, to other peoples' interests, and to the earth...
I guess the seed DNA of this idea is the concept of "bringing into the public dialogue" or "daylighting" the "sacred spaces" or special places of the Asheville, NC area. This is in part survey, in part GIS-statistical analysis, part the creation of a Public or civic body around a concept and a stewardship - that of the "special" or spiritually-charged or important places in our region, for the sake of their protection. Perhaps this sort of project would be best served by a non-profit like Nature Conservancy. There is a public participation part of this too, though -- the chance for a public conversation arond the concept of the Sacred Place in American dialogue. I believe that all constituencies can agree that such places exist - defined even by the athiest or realist - as much as by the non-dualist or religious or spiritual types.
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