11:03 and so there was a obvious tension this has been the deep journey of your life to
11:09 becoming the dancer the person who can hold the opposites the person who can say yes to creation but also yes to destruction yes to pain and yes to joy yes to the shadow and yes to the light and recognizing that they belong to each other they are each other they are different ways in that if something doesn’t die there’s no nurturing for the new and something alive is dying and something what is alive is dying and when it dies it provides the [ __ ] soil for new life
Crossing Into Darkness 18.01 – 12.04.26 Carl Freedman Gallery
‘Crossing Into Darkness’ brings together a group of artists whose works confront the darkness inherent in human experience, not as something to be feared but as a necessary threshold toward renewal. In times marked by upheaval and uncertainty, this journey feels both universal and deeply personal.
‘The title of the show is very self explanatory, especially for the times we are living in. But even so we have always had our own journeys. And I feel that we have to cross into darkness to find light. I’d like this show to be very emotionally immersive and people to feel the strength and vibrations within the works. I want people to know that art isn’t just something that you look at. That it has a deeper purpose and can penetrate all souls.
I love the idea of people coming to Margate on the greyest of winter days with gale force winds and crashing waves to make the pilgrimage to see the show.
– Dame Tracey Emin
13:53 i know it deeply distresses you which is this really shattering depression and paralysis that we are in why aren’t we
14:01 doing a lot more to deal with this terrible crisis on every level that we’re in well from my point of view uh i would say you know i do a lot of work with addicts and i think we are acting like addicts we have all this wonderful life but we cannot believe we can lose it that that is too horrible a thought so the fear is expressed in adding more and more stuff stealing more and more from the earth and acting more and more irresponsible as a word just irresponsible and even angry see we’re living in a civilization that doesn’t understand metaphor so they they tend to concretize everything and not even know that that’s what’s going on except that god doesn’t matter anymore
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the union that they yearn for you know that total coming together they can’t find because they concretize the concept and it it kills them and the person who wants abundance who wants to revel in abundance can’t think of it in terms of the rapture before nature a rapture for the sea or a gazelle thinks of it in terms of stuff he stuffs his or her everything life with stuff everything is compromised everything is materialized in a gross way and that requires the strip mining of nature the destruction of the environment
23:54 by sheer accident i read for a play and got the part but that also brought up that i was too heavy my weight was too heavy and you know i wanted to be most beautiful on the stage and so that the year in teaching teachers training was really the year the anorexia started
25:05 it was european dances that we were doing but they expected people to do it right you had to know what you were doing so i learned that kind of perfection you know that was essential and i lost about 70 pounds that year and then i was really sick “only i discern infinite passion and the pain of finite hearts that yearn” is a lovely balancing of the yearning for the infinite and having to be satisfied with the finite you know that’s that’s basically what being an analyst is you sit in the chair and you listen to the depth of the passion that is driving someone where the infinite passion is pounding in the body but the object is wrong in any addiction i would say having worked at it for so long and looking at our world now which is
26:45
who was your killer who who was your inner killer?
oh i would say it was god it was a desire for that kind of perfection where the desire for perfection rejects life
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the massacre of the feminine it had those exaggerated poles because of being a minister’s daughter with a highly highly developed spiritual yearning and on the other side this wild gypsy energy that refused to be tamed and your whole life became then the search to honor both in their own terms and to bring them together in a mystery of presence
-that’s what it became and that’s what all my work is about trying to hold both of those because i know if the gypsy dies i die so that energy has to be continually given a chance to speak to to dance it has to be expressed or it is a killer there’s a rage in it because i see what’s happening to the planet i see
35:57 i’ve always believed that my mission in life was to find the feminine and to help other people and i say people not women women and men to find out what their genuine femininity is and that leads to a new masculine, what is that relatedness that is the feminine what is that emotional vibrancy that comes from the body right through the whole being and men have to find this too
38:22 so when i finally realized that i had to do something changed 100 percent or die i started to work with dreams and images particularly writing and my motivation there was that i felt proud of myself when i was creating from myself i felt there was somebody inside that was doing those pictures or writing my way of working with addictions is to try to find where they are creative
43:23 god in the earth i believe that we are going to be forced into a recognition of the feminine as divine and again love the earth recognize the creation that is the earth this earth and the child can be born from that earth