Sacred Dark 2013

For 40 years I made art about the separation of body from mind. I feel this separation within myself at times and I attribute cruelty in the culture to this disconnection. And yet, I also believe and feel that we are connected to ourselves, each other, and the earth. All is connected: body, land, water, rock, bone, animal, human, plants. All is holy. God and spirit are right here in all of us.

This new work is not about the concepts of the body/mind oneness. It is the body/mind directly speaking its wordless rhythms and wisdom.

I let go and jump into a place I don’t know and trust that my body will be guided to make something that speaks. I trust these images to speak beyond myself since we share the experience of life with all time and place and carry it in our bodies, our cells, our DNA. The mystery of the art making process can draw up knowledge we are not consciously aware of and show itself in the image.

Maggie Rozycki, Oct. 18, 2014

“In all living creatures, the music is the same; it is the echo of the voice of a wave-like movement that fuels the universe….These patterned vibrations permeate all of substance and life, providing the unifying resonance between people, nature, and the invisible worlds. An Aboriginal cave painting story (below) also speaks of the harmonic integrating pulsation of life:”

-The Return of the Mother, Andrew Harvey

Tree…
he watching you.
You look at tree,
he listen to you.
He got no finger,
he can’t speak,
But that leaf…
he pumping, growing,
growing in the night.
While you sleeping
you dream something.
Tree and grass same thing.
They grow with your body,
with your feeling.

-Anonymous Indigenous Australian

End of Era

The Sacred Dark ends an era of making work on the theme of the separation of body and mind. I’m done with words and concepts. For now and into the future (until it changes), I’m content with the body/mind directly speaking its wordless rhythms and wisdom.