| Victoria C. Drake
In the Deep Ecology of Nature's Psyche: How the Immanence of Earth Work Art Transcends and Integrates the Soul of Nature with the Nature of Soul
This presentation explores the relationship of earth work art (or "land art'"), particularly that of Walter De Maria (born 1935), to its referential, contextual landscape and natural physical site in space and time from a depth p
in situ art material over time seems to be both a conscious/unconscious call and response to the specific question: what is nature's soul or psyche asking of me? versus what is world soul (or anima mundi) asking of me?
becomes a symbolic proving ground or mirror for what we may be seeing outside that is beckoning us across a threshold deep within. The experience of this evolving, manifest medium offers a clearer understanding of ho
of me? What is Gaia dreaming of me?Laura H. Mitchell, PhD, MFT
The Ecological Imagination: the Radical Interpenetration of Body and Nature-- Body's Landscapes as Earth Mappings as Seen through the Arts
This presentation explores the overlay of nature's mappings onto the experiencing body by way of the concept of the ecological imagination. The ecological imagination is the human mode of experiencing nature's mappin
place-relations. This view is germane to the seminal ecological thinking of both Merleau-Ponty and Jung. Building on this premise—the commensurability of human nature and nature—gives a penetrating departure from t
crisis. Our spontaneous responses give us direct access to our embeddedness in the uniqueness, expressiveness, and archetypal potency of the earth. This presentation shows how the arts can be used as a lived-vehicle
the arts as a doorway into the presence to place and participatory intelligence. It uses the photo projection of nature images onto the moving body to illustrate this condensation of the ecological and the personal and it use
Laura H. Mitchell, PhD, MFT is a practicing artist and the director of the Expressive Arts Program at Sky Mountain Institute, CA. She is engaged in ecological fieldwork and community artwork in the San Diego area and h
a conference presenter at Pacifica Graduate Institute and recently published an article on the ecological imagination in Spring Journal.
Victoria C. Drakeis a second year MA/PhD graduate student at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Depth Psychology. In August, 2004, she visited The Lightning Field (1977) by Walter De Maria near Quemado, NM and spent
Recently, she made a pilgrimage to DIA Beacon, NY to study additional De Maria art works. A former primatologist and international wildlife conservationist, Victoria is now involved in community justice advocacy issues w
Chicago/Openlands working in China. |