ritual permutations 4
2025
painting base: handmade paper from european beach grass, cat tail, cardune, cotton fabric scraps, moon drawing photographs, fresh and salt water pearl photos
paint/medium: colored pencil, moon:menstrual blood
frame: woven english ivy
21 x 26 in
53 x 66 cm
each pearl in this piece holds within it a personal dream that creates harmony in our world. there are infinite ways in which we can participate in generating belonging, balance, and love (harmony). this piece is an invitation for us to dream-into-being dream-into-life our most fantastic dreams of love, reverence and harmony. what is your dream, dear seer? and how might you begin to bring this forward? this piece also includes mugwort, an herb known as an emmenagogue and dream enhancer; and benevolent spirit guides. there are many beings supporting our visions of hope.
As I’ve studied the menstrual cycle, I’ve found that through a process called follicular atresia, typically, each month a bleeding person drops around 28 ovum from their finite stash. Only one goes onto the process of ovulation; while the rest get reabsorbed back into the body.
There is something so magical about that. These pearls holding creative life force energy fuel back into our body..! And one is offered to the earth carried in blood if not fertilized.
I have meditated on 28 dreams, wrote them out on a square pressed them with my own menstrual blood to charge them. I’ve placed various freshwater and salt water pearls onto 28 shapes to symbolize the process of them turning to fruit. Within another ring; is mugwort; a plant I grow who also has an affinity with the moon, dreams and womb cycle.
The being in the center is a personified rendering of the ovum potential I am harnessing; we are being supported by the spirit helpers drawn on either side of them. The black crescent moon shaped photographs are from the photography series moon drawings. All of this is linked with blood in a circle symbolizing flow.
I regularly read back on my dreams; and check off when I fulfill an intention. I feel steady momentum. Less effort; more trust.