Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas Image: "With the creation of the Universe, dance too came into being, which signifies the union of the elements. The round dance of the stars, the constellation of planets in rotation to fixed stars, the beautiful order and harmony in all its movements, is a mirror of the original dance at the time of creation. Responding and attempting to encompass the phenomenal world outside, man by dancing, is put in touch with his inner being --just as creation hides, the physical form of man conceals the spiritual being. " -- Marci Gabriella Wosien To understand events or what comes to pass, one must understand the cosmic dance, the musical and geometric pattern of movement in Creation. Myth is the history of the soul, the memory of our greater being; ritual and sacrament are the reminders. . . .To make something sacred on must re-connect the part to the Universal Whole. The patterning of all events is the Logos. At the summit of human understanding in the Dance, mythos is no longer a description, it is a performance of Reality. " -- W. J. Thompson
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas Image: "The most holy one created the world like and embryos , and an embryo grows from the navel, so she began o create the world by the navel. . . she was both seed and flower, both primordial and final. The first vibrations of the egg of the world which unfolds to the edges of the Universe are both expanding and contracting, emerging from the sourced pulsing outward to disappear winto a spherical vortex. The still center (the Heart) is the axis of creation -the universal continuum perpetually unfolds. . . The subtle energy from of the human body may be seen as a subtle energy from of cosmos, relatively miniaturized, but no less vast. The cosmos that we know is a (perception) construction of the energy currents in our own body. Cosmic mind and human mind are not essentially different. Everything is interconnected in a vest web work of cosmic being in an overall vibrating pattern. . . . " B. Mor and Monica Sjoo
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas Image: "Modern sickness is that of disconnection, the ego unable to feel an organic part of the world, except via chemical and popular culture addictions. But when the physicians of mind and body do no know themselves what it is we need to be connected to, how can they solve the syndrome of disconnection? When the ego sinks down into the oceanic all-oneness , the shrinks call this 'regression.' They have virtually defined 'mature mindedness' as a state of permanent alienation.' B. Mor and M. Sjoo
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas Image: "What in ancient times was experienced as our 'super-consciousness' within which we perceived the I-Thou of the ego dissolving into the cosmic being of oneness, and whereby we received understanding, wisdom, transcending dualism, and healing powers -- is now wholly submerged within us and termed 'unconscious.' The sacred is the emotional force which connects the part to the whole, the profane or the secular is that which hs be broken off. True religion is the umbilical cord that binds our individual self to the Universal source." -- B. Mor and M. Sjoo
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas Image: Both Female Cycles and the Wise Wound speak at great length about the 'menstrual epidemic' among modern civilized women. When violence is done to our nature it talks back in irregular ways and disharmonious ways -- when we menstruate we are more psychologically open and vulnerable, and because of this are unable to accept injustices, deceits. . . and so our stored up rage and sexual frustration are likely to burst out. . . The menstrual cycle deeply links body, soul and mind but traditionally male doctors have viewed women as hormone robots. . . .The menstrual tension is also caused by an increased need to dream and to meditate. This was the time when ancient women experienced prophetic dreams. This was the monthly transformation and rebirth of the ego self. . ..The ancient people believed that the Moon Mother created human society. If the moon were to vanish, all mental activity on Earth would cease. In their language , words for wisdom, knowledge, spirit, soul and time are always cognate with words for the moon. In Dakotan 'waken' means 'spiritual, 'wonderful,' and 'menstrual.' Menstrual blood is liquid flesh, both sacred and biological. Within it dwells the life spirit. The human womb is strongly supplied with conscious sensory nerves , it is a sense organ, complex and raw like wound." -- B. Mor and M. Sjoo
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas
Untitled (Artist Book) by Audra Skuodas
  • Audra Skuodas
  • Untitled (Artist Book), 2000s
  • Foam core, pencil, ink, canvas, acrylic paint, vintage key, string, rag paper
  • 16.75 x 13.5 x 1 in
  • Inv: 000154BOOK
  • Available
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Hand made and bound artist book with text and imagery.

Quotations from W.J. Thompson and B. Mor and Monica Sjoo

  • Subject Matter: Intersect of Eastern Philosophy, Western Philosophy and Social Science
  • Collections: Artist Books
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