by Dawn Patel | Dec 10, 2018 | ancestor dress, ancestry cloth, art, art as initiation, art is a mirror, art process, artist, awakening, Brilliant Stranger, embodiment, non-duality, performance, women's circles
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...
by Dawn Patel | Oct 15, 2018 | ancestors, ancestry cloth, art as initiation, constraints of culture, initiation, initiation as art, performance, skeletons, structures of belief
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]...
