Spider Woman's Hands - Weaving a New Web

“What might we see, how might we act, if we saw with a webbed vision? The world seen through a web of relationships…as delicate as spider’s silk, yet strong enough to hang a bridge on.”

Catherine Keller, From a Broken Web

Spider Woman in Native American mythology is the great weaver who spins the world into being with what she imagines. Also called "Thought Woman" (Tse Che Nako), the story of Grandmother Spider Woman has many profound meanings for our time. It is a quontum vision of the world - a way of seeing "with a webbed vision".

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SPIDER WOMAN SPEAKS.....

You don't need to climb a mountain
to get the big picture!
All its snaking rivers and twining roots
Are inside of you!

All those threads
come right out of your hands
and right out of your hearts
and just go on forever

into the Earth,
and into each other,
and into all your stories

into everyone you'll ever know

all those who came before you
and all those who will come after you.
All One.

A House of Doors

A HOUSE OF DOORS
~Open Poems~


1971 to 2004

by Lauren Raine
Felicia Miller
Joanna Brouk

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I don't believe we can know who we are without re-discovering those people who had a lot to do with who we were, and who we became. In 2004 I found a treasure in an old cardboard box. A collection of poetry written by myself and my friends some 35 years ago when we had the good fortune to be young in Berkeley in the halcyon days of the early '70's. Many of them I illustrated. I'm delighted to publish these poems and art finally - and to add to the mix over 30 years of poems that reflect my journey since. Joanna, Felicia, thank you. Wherever you are, we were beautiful.

FOR THREE WEEKS

the cool moon
bound by occult cords
moves
through the houses
of memory and sleep
distills night in a bowl

But on the night of the full moon
what is mirrored
in a still pool?

Felicia Miller (1972)


IT WAS ONLY
three strands of hair
falling across an eye half closed
a flash of green light, curtain of eyelash,
a snapshot in my memory book

where you exist still
the moment unlost
expanding, weightless

All images and text
copyright
Lauren Raine MFA,
Felicia Miller Ph.d.,
and Joanna Brouk

(2008)

The Artist's Oracular Cook Book

~ Divine Recipes for the Muse ~

"Art is food for the Soul. Bon Appetit."

In the summer of 2005 I was blessed with a residency at the Artist's Enclave at IPark in Connecticut. At the time, I was exploring my own version of the Tarot, and playing with the idea of Divination cards. It's an IPark tradition for each resident to contribute a special "cocktail recipe" when they leave. And so, in the course of that magical summer of art making, The Artist's Oracular Cook Book became my contribution.

Ask the Muse a question and then pick a card. It works for me.

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More than you can imagine is possible.

The most important
ingredient

is believing
that it's possible.

When the Sun is shining - Play!

in the dappled play
of light and shadow,
the amazing rainbow
~palette of color ~
the purple taste
of grapes, of lemon grass,
pearls of raindrop epiphanies
strung on a shining cord,
iridescent gleaming words
crystallizing
on a pristine page......

A Feast!

Take good care of your work.
Nurture your creativity.

Protect the children
of your imagination.
Avoid people
who talk you into being smaller
than you really are.

And anyone or anything
that wounds your enthusiasm.

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All images and text copyright Lauren Raine MFA 2008