Archetypes and Masks is about what the ancients knew and what they represent for us today. It has to do with what it takes to fulfill our purpose here - to master ourselves, to move from the archetypal original sin of not believing ourselves to be enough to realizing the wonder that we are and with which we create through the power of our imagination.
In a world that sustains itself on fears of loss, lack, limitation and empty promises and strategies for avoiding these, more and more people are trying on the courage of a warrior and facing the deep waters of the soul to cross over into the promised land of personal mastery. The Eagle archetype inspires us to dream new dreams for ourselves, to travel into the sky and bring back our dreams to the earth.
To Make Arrangements to Host an Exhibit of Pic's Work
We can seek to find the silent knowledge, the truth that resides deep within us and all that is, or we can keep on listening to the committee in our heads - our stories that make assumptions about our present experiences and tell us exactly how to perceive, interpret, and react to what is going on around us as if there was some power in that. Listening to our stories chokes the life out of us.
Sage Elephant
Got Mitote?
First Nations people all over the planet looked to their environment for the symbols and lessons of the qualities they needed to develop in themselves. They looked to Wolf and saw how they modelled community through the packs they formed, and how they governed themselves.
In contemporary times it is too easy to say we don't model ourselves after our environment when the truth is our environment simply looks different than it did hundreds of years ago, now the environment is filled with media, billboards, advertisements, music, television shows and news bulletins. In The WolfElder mask the tribal elder, acts as an archetype that speaks to us of our need for community and to invest ourselves in a greater connection with our world than various media which presently surrounds and seeks to influence us. The elder represents the answer to that questioning in our hearts that there must be something else.
Several master archetypes teach us of the need to be like little children and realize that all of our experiences are based in our own imaginings. In BuddhaPets we see a little child facing a great, seemingly ravenous beast. But the child is unafraid observing the monsters as if they were a fireworks show. And, the beast is not attacking. The archetypes here ask that we do not shrink from what we need to see in ourselves. In seeing whatever we might fear as a manufacture of our own ways of being, we render this powerless over us.
Goddesses served as archetypes for all sorts of life passages among the ancients. For fertility of children or in the fields, goddesses were consulted. For entering this or crossing over into the next life, goddesses were consulted. For everything under the sun there is a season and each is beautifully powerful in it's own way. Each is to be celebrated as part of the fabric of the whole of our being and our process. Each phases represents life-altering changes and we are reminded by the archetype of the Goddess that change is an integral part of our being.
When humans make this choice, to awaken to the use of their imagination and their oneness with all that is even when it is the appearance of darkness, then we may step out of the box of our initiation on this planet and perceive ourselves more and more at-one with meaning and purpose in life.
Reflective masks are the faces we see in crowds, or the mirror. They are sometimes representative of stuck energy we would like to move. Our conditioning leads many to react to just a single glance from any of these faces. In gathering awareness we reclaim the choices that this conditioning has limited and practice transforming the energy in these masks we may have learned to wear ourselves as a usually ineffective strategy to get what we want.
As we begin with changes and awakening, we can recall the lessons of the Jaguar archetype. Stalking what doesn't work for allows us to transform its energy to reflect our gathering awareness. This mask is also lifted from Mayan influences.
Have You Seen Me?
Awakening to At-One-Meant
BuddhaPets
WolfElder
As Above So Below
These words are etched in ancient Egyptian mystery and are also found throughout the teachings of master archetypes. The Buddha is quoted as saying, "With our thoughts we create our world."
Adam and Eve were given the power to name a thing and have it be that for them. Even in contemporary scientific archetype we speak of microcosm and macrocosm.
All archetypes and masks teach us that whatever we hold in mind, that is perceive, will be our experience.
Let our faith, our imaginings, be in
Love
whether we are being directed by an ancient master to love one another as we would be loved, or a master musician that all we need is love;
let this be our imagining and let this be our experience.
All sculptural pieces are made out of thin air using paper bag, corrugated cardboard and/or galvanized wire with acrylic paint. Framed paintings are acrylic on hardboard.
All work created in 2004 with the exception of Magic Mirror (2001) and Got Mitote? (1992)
