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Evolvulation
Sleepless night. The tinnitus is loud and high pitched. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee constant and even, never-ending. 9 years. At 2am I begin to meditate. It is challenging to find space between the eeeeeeeeeeee I ask the sound, the...
The Moat
The Moat The benevolent king has left the throne A madman sits in his place The moat dries up with neglect Masses are crossing, bodies pushing mud. Stirring loose the ghosts. Who loudly shake the rusty shackles While others bow down and cover their ears Women on...
The Cloak Wants to be Performed
This is the Cloak I began early this year, at that time I was calling it "Cape." I went to an artist's residency in Mexico with the intention of making a fiber cocoon, in which to perform my embodiment process. What I ended up making was a wearable piece that must...
The Ship of Skeletons
This is the story of two initiations, one initiation into a World that has been created and decided by Fear, and one initiation into a Future that has Yet to be Created. Once, and once, and once again [within a time existing side by side with many other times]...
Reflecting on Art as it Reflects Us.
“Art is a mirror to nature.” ShakespeareHouse in the Woods 1989“Art is not a mirror held up to realitybut a hammer with which to shape it.” Bertolt BrechtThe Gulf Stream 1995“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And...
Cartography of the Unseen World
I woke up this morning thinking two things. 1. I really should start working on an artist’s statement for “I Am Usha.”2. I am at an age where many people have reached the top of their field.And then, as I so often like to do, I completely deconstructed both of...
Break (it) Down
The Prophet by Kahlil GibranAnd a woman spoke, saying Tell us of Pain.And he said:Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in...
The Female Center
I sometimes hear voices. I kept pretty quiet about that my entire life, because, well, I was afraid of being judged by minds that do not understand such things. This has been a month of letting go of fears... so that one's gone too.In the early morning...
i am usha
The Dark. A natural and essential part of our existence. Not evil. Not inferior. Deep. Forceful. Darkness is intense, and so widely misunderstood. Who has not used the word "darkness" to describe something ominous and threatening;...
Night Vision
In the earliest hours of morning our thoughts connect two worlds. Dreams open doors into a fluid world. In daylight the thick shell of the world hides from us from the truth we seek. We forget the stars are still there. This is my story of remembering. It is one of...