Artist's Statement



I'm not really sure just how I do what I do as I create. As I write or sculpt or paint, play an instrument or sing, I disappear, becoming whatever it is that is being creatively born. It is only in a sort of shimmering aftermath that I realize I have been absent, and like a whale emerging from the depths suddenly 'I am' once more.
I am sitting in a room. There is a window beside me, softened at its edges by curtains, and a breeze pulls through. There is a floor beneath my feet. Where have I been?

Then I look and see that the paper beneath my hands is no longer blank, or the room resonates with the music that has flown forth from the guitar I am holding. Words have crowded onto the page of my notebook like a gathering of gleeful old friends. Something I cannot fully explain, whose origins are a complete mystery, exists, where before it did not.


While I do not know how I do what I do, I deeply know why. Much of the world is in pain, and those of us in it feel, in various ways, the dissonance, as the pain reverberates through. Something is wrong with the way we regard the Earth. Something is broken as we treat each other so poorly, as we stagnate in hate, and as we are absorbed by fear. Something needs to change, as we are so bad to ourselves, as we succumb to doubt, isolation and anger.

As I disappear, I think I must be seeking a solution to some of these challenges, issues, and difficulties. What I bring back with me, in words or images or music, responds to the friction, loneliness, misunderstanding and hurt in the world. It questions the way things are, and suggests kindness, symbiosis, awareness and playfulness. It acknowledges what we may lose if we cannot change from our present course, but never fully deviates from the joy and brightness that is still possible.


- Jorie Jenkins



Thursday, June 30, 2016

Miriconian Manuscript : Alphabet


Miriconian Language : A Brief History

Part of the Miriconian language and dialect text, this page of ancient symbols represents the second oldest language written and spoken in the natural realm. The vowel sounds are among the oldest in this series of letters, most of them being borrowed from the far older language known as Bynsch, 'The Cry'. Bynch was spoken in various ways by wolves, eagles, monkeys, whales, lions, and even clouds of swarming insects, and it was said that the wind and the waters were responsible in teaching these creatures how to speak, so that the shapes of both earth energies flowed in their sounds and utterances.

As Earthspeakers endeavored to put into context the many concerns they represented, they discovered that the more primitive cry of the early animals was not easily understood by Man. Thus, the Earthspeakers and Ambassadors of the world created the existing Miriconian language, which was spoken by Man and Earthspeaker alike for many eons. The speech fell out of common practice in the past 500 years, as the Ambassadors of Earth dwindled in number, and as Man's interest in connection with nature diminished.

Matted and framed,
Approximately 12x16

Original only, no reproductions
$250


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