The pieces in the book are woven from the spools of life’s inner challenges and the mind’s creative capacity to deal with them. There are streams running though it, covering a wide variety of topics, to be discovered and explored. The reader is invited to dive in to the intertwined verbal and visual world of the book – and themselves – to engage with their own experience and process.
Main themes include:
- identity, authenticity and becoming
- annihilation, fragmentation and woundedness
- resurgence, healing and wholeness
Some other threads are:
- concealment, discovery; facing pain
- the labour of therapy; the therapist
- love, compassion, truth and mystery
- growth, decay and transformation
- cycles, waves, rhythm and music
- energy, power and vibrancy
- embodied mind and soul, embodied process
- the cellular and universal
- individuality, diversity, commonality and connectedness
- light and dark, opposites and inversions, (a)symmetry
- space, shape, boundaries, freedom
- creativity, play, intuition, unfamiliar resources of the mind
- melding and resonance of written word and image
Presents of Mind is available from the author or from this link: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/625378395/presents-of-mind-unique-shaped-poetry
