Here we are with the third book of Critical Opalescence, once an art-by-mail subscription, now a three-part video! The sandy shore is where our water manifests itself this time: a Southern California beach.
I don't know when I started to do this, but when I am at the water's edge I feel compelled to make a labyrinth. Sometimes it is just sand stirred with my feet, other times I outline the path with collected stones. Perhaps it began when I read and was inspired by a slim book, Earth Mazes (Amazon link) by Alex Champion (author website and direct order). In it he describes mazes and labyrinths and the difference: their history; as symbols and drawings; ways of walking them; and best of all, the garden mazes and labyrinths he has constructed. (Bay Area locals: we have the Lake Merritt Labyrinth in Oakland as a living and public example of one.)
"Ocean" begins with a labyrinth, both in the text and with the first reduction-cut image. Some say one ought to walk the labyrinth with a question and the winding in and out – for it is one continuous path – will conjure an answer. Here, it is a healing beginning, and soon dissolves into the life of the sea and our connection to it, the main focus of this true short story.
Critical Opalescence (Ocean)
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Next up: more animals.
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