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.
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.
