MUSHROOMS LOVELY LOVELY MUSHROOMS

Former cancer patient finds deep healing in psilocybin trip – timescolonist.com/ Cindy E Harnet / Times Colonist Dec/13/2020

“Natural occurring ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” works on serotonin receptors of the brain to produce mind-altering psychedelic effects for several hours -- a sense of euphoria and spirituality, hallucinations and a distorted sense of time”.

Ceharnett@timescolonist.com

Can my art have the same level of healing power that a magic mushroom can offer? I’m about to take a trip, help fathom out the answer to this and many other questions, I've whirling in my brain!

TODAYS INSPIRATIONAL ARTISTS

Lucas Joel Macauley

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

Sylvia Plath

Joe Balcom

Olivia Gatwood

Wassily Kandinsky

Dorothea Tanning

My second home: Sylvia Plath in Paris, 1956 by Dave Haslam

Plath (poet b.1932 Boston d.1963) poetryfoundation.org

Joe Balcom; growing up with two mentally ill parents (blog) [1/12/20]

Millions of people have dealt with the effects, whether internally or from others, of mental illness. I hope my story can offer a glimmer of support or hope.

“IN ORDER TO MOVE FULLY INTO THE FUTURE, I MUST FIRST FREE MYSELF FROM THE PAST” FH21

Olivia Gatwood “At the owl”

[accessed:19/12/20] youtube.com

I work with women who have crow bars for backbones

Ironed plates on the soles of their feet

They've got dinner for every night of the year crumpled in their aprons

Wiped across their dish washed uniform

This is where you get those calloused fingers

This is where you reek like grease

This is where you bring your children when its too loud to sleep

Between the separation and the divorce

The man you loved and the shit you kissed

Between the period you longed for and the period you missed

This is your salary left on an empty table

...in a half assed gazey tone...

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth – b.1886 d.1962 East Lancashire (Oswaldtwistle) writer, feminist and social activist, first noticed as a poet, journalist and children's writer. Believed to be the first working class woman in Britain to write a novel (Published 10 in her lifetime). Expressing her thoughts in ‘rhymic forms’. Recordings commissioned by the Pendle Radicals (2019) - (Pendle Hill Landscape Partnership).

E.C.Holdsworth “Faith”

Most earnestly and truly

I believe the human heart is beautiful and good

though poisonous weeds up-grow within its clefts

as nightshade grows within the Verdant wood

There are soft steams that flow with gentle sound

and pearly sprays of blossom

and the grove is flooded with the music of sweet birds

So, or its dark emotions triumphs love

Let me keep clear to the end of life

My faith in sweet humanities fair flower

Old age that sits with all its glamor gone

Old cynical cold and infidel and sour

Is something to be shrunk from

But the light of youth departed glory

Hovers still about the one

Who keeps through winters rhyme

The thought that hearts are good and seldom ill

Yet will I trust better for better it is to fall from trusting too much

Than trusting not at all

Poetryarchive.org/poet/ethel-carnie-holdsworth

Wassily Kandinsky – the artist who painted music … Russian art theorist and painter ... pioneer abstract modern artform and colour to explore abstract and colour as a way of evoking spirituality and human emotion. “colour is key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many cords,” he was quoted saying. “The artist is the hand, that by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.”

Emma Taggart 13/12/2020 mymodernmet.com [accessed:19/12/2020]

Dorothea Tanning – artist who pushed the boundaries of surrealism seven-decade career … enigmatic paintings to uncanny sculpture.

Depicting ‘unknown but knowable states’: to suggest that there was more to life than meets the eye. (Max Ernst-husband).

Later in life - dedicating more of her time to writing. Coming to that - her last collection of poems, published aged 101

Dorothea Tanning “Coming to that”

“If it comes to that,” he said,

“there’ll be no preventing it.” He uttered it as I listened.

Had I got it right, hearing him? “If it comes to that,” is what he said, and,

as if talking to himself, went on about how there’d be no preventing it. He came to that conclusion, saying it in a slow way of

coming to that, whatever that was it might come to before not being prevented—and as if such a thing were for him the unthinkable, and would prevail, if it came to that. And while listening more closely now to what he said, I realized if no one paid him heed, it would be as if he hadn’t said it—if it came to that—and would then not be prevented from falling to forces known to care little for what he said, even if they heard it, their being wily and forceful enough to make sure it would come to that.