by Dawn Patel | Jan 9, 2015 | art and nature, art for sale, artists process, dawn patel, dawn patel art, ecology, mind, nature and technology, never-ending story, Positive Psychology, sentience, sentient beings, Sentient Potential, technology
Sentience is the ability to feel, perceive or experience subjectively. Eighteenth-century philosophers used the concept to distinguish the ability to think (reason) from the ability to feel (sentience). In modern Western philosophy, sentience is the...
by Dawn Patel | Dec 31, 2014 | animals, art, art process, artist, artists process, being present, belief, Chance, creative process, gratitude, healing through art, intuition, language, poetry, sentient beings, seredipity
Today it occurs to me that the language of the Sentient Beings has to be poetryWork in Progress: “Chances of Drowning”But I argue, “I’m not a poet.” Well, I’m not a good one.I don’t know what to do.”A Pigeon...
by Dawn Patel | Dec 15, 2014 | alley, birds, deception, fox, jackal, mystery, never-ending story, parallel universe, past lives, sentient beings, sidewalk, stories, storytelling, wolf
The world of the Sentient Beings has always been here. It’s just that we don’t always see.The Sentient Beings were in danger of becoming invisible to all. Jackal turned himself into a man, and tried to convince the people that these beings...
by Dawn Patel | Dec 12, 2014 | animal husbandry, animals, be wild, contemporary storytelling, dancing jackal, domestication, ecology, fox, intuition, jackal, nature and man, sentient beings, stories, symbolism, the wild, totem animals, wild
The Sentient Beings: Jackal and the Story of IntuitionJackal lives her life with few enemies and becomes a trusting soul.Jackal meets man, and wants to play.When close, she senses something dangerous, and backs off. In another lifetime Jackal was a human....
by Dawn Patel | Dec 11, 2014 | animals, creative process, creativity, dawn patel art, fables, fox, jackal, lessons, life is stranger than fiction, moon, mystery, myth, nature, never-ending story, sentient beings, stories, storytelling, wolf
More Jackal… she is Dancing Jackal, after a long journey via magic arrow. During the long and reckless journey she is pierced by the arrow and has to land in a canyon where there is no escape. Dancing Jackal does not have the patience...
by Dawn Patel | Nov 26, 2014 | Eagle Eye, fables, fairy tales, lessons, life, mystery, mystery stones, myth, never-ending story, Seer, sentient beings, storytelling, visionary art, visions, wisdom
The story I am telling with the Sentient Beings has no beginning and no end. It started sometime… perhaps when I was sleeping. It will end sometime… in a future that doesn’t exist yet. So, like I said, it has no beginning and no...
