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​BARB MORGAN

When I was a young girl I let my creativity flow in happy, wild abandon in Rumi’s field “beyond right doing or wrong doing.”  Making art felt natural and necessary.  As all little girls do, I grew up, and in so doing learned to follow the rules, be responsible and good.  Sadly, I lost touch with my true undomesticated feminine spirit and I quit making art.
 
Fortunately sometime well into midlife that spirit beckoned me again through a spontaneous and compelling urge to create.  As I listened and began to answer her call I found myself drawn more than ever into nature.  I now spend many hours wandering throughout the many landscapes of our beautiful Northwest region - along the Salish Sea, through the lush North Cascades, all over our magical islands and sometimes in other regions such as the spacious Southwestern desert lands.  As I walk I collect whatever catches my eye - seaweed, moss, branches, pods, feathers, tumbleweeds, bones.  Back at my studio I sit down, surrounded by all manner of my collected treasures and let myself begin to play
 
None of the dancers in my collection are envisioned before I begin playing with the natural findings.  They evolve into themselves as I go.  I am endlessly surprised to meet them once they are fully formed.  Each one carries for me a vital and true energy that I begin to recognize in myself and that I believe has a resting place in the deep feminine.