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| The artist began painting the Therapy
Series followed by the Runes Series. We'll look at them
in reverse order. She was in Japan on her way to an International
Transpersonal Psychology Conference in Kyoto when she
stopped in Tokyo is see the national museums. A retrospective
exhibit of the prints of Munakata filled several galleries
at the Mueum of Contemporary Art, followed by a continuously
operating video of a TV interview made shortly before
his death. The interviewer is dazzled by the speed with
which Munakata is cutting a block and inquired, "How
can you work so fast?" Munakata replied, "It's
coming from someplace behind me." When she went to
her hotel room, she said out loud, "Well, if there
is something behind me that wants expression, let's see
it." She began sketching furiously, in a notebook
which ultimately held 90 ideas for paintings. |
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| Rune 1: The
Self --2' x 3' $500 |
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Rune 6:
Initiation---
2' x 4' (NFS)
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| The next day during an orientation to
a group pre-conference tour, she found herself without
the notebook and compulsively drew on the banquet table-cloth
which she reluctantly had to leave behind. Two days later
is Koyasan, the guide inquired, "Who was drawing
on the table cloth at the hotel?" She was embarassed
and given instructions to pay for it and pick it up from
the chief bell boy upon returning to the hotel a couple
of days later. The bill was $27 which she paid in cash,
breathed a sigh of relief, borrowed a pair of scissors
and cut the sketches off the table cloth to paste into
her sketch book. Later she painted those ideas. |
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| After Japan she flew to Tasmania where
she was scheduled to teach a journal workshop. Her friends
rushed her out of the airport straight to the university
art gallery, where the grand old man of Australian/New
Zealand, was present for the opening of a retrospective
exhibit. She arrived in time to hear a reporter ask, "Where
do you get your ideas?" and the old man answered,
"They come from somewhere behind me." She was
inspired. Taught and traveled finally to Western Australia
where she began to paint small oils that would be called
The Therapy Series. She came back to the US for a few
months on business and Winafred Lucas loaned her empty
house to use as studio for a few weeks. |
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| Rune 17: Movement---
4' x 4' |
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Rune 11:
Possessions--- 4'x 4'
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| She attended The Every Other Monday Night
Coffee Drinking and Consciousness Raising Group, where
she heard Ralph Blum talk about his Runes. The Runes are
Norse alphabet symbols which Ralph channeled into a little
oracle for divining the future. 26 clay tablets, in a
bag, and a little book of interpretations. Reach into
the bag, draw one, see what it means. She bought a set,
turned to her sketch book, decided which sketch to paint,
drew a rune, and the rune always synchronistically fit
into the painting! She did 21 paintings in rapid succession
before heading back to Australia. |
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| Rune 10: Protection---
4' x 4' |
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Rune 13:
Harvest--- 4' x 4'
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| Rune 5: 4' x4' (private collection)
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Mixed Runes:
Putting
Your Hand on the Great Stone Face---
4 x 4 (destroyed in fire)
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