Between the Worlds
I stand on the threshold breathing into the sacred earth beneath my feet. My heart opens, I reach out calling through the veils that separate this world from the otherworlds. My blood and bones sense the presence of the ancient ones whose lives and stories are the teachings guiding my life. Wisdom offered to me through the breath of the wind, the fire of the sun, the cool of the waters and the timeless stillness of the mountain.
This is the feast of Samhain and I bring my humble offering to honour my ancestors. I am held in their presence as the pomegranate seeds drop from my fingers running red with the juices of life. I feed them and I remember, for what is remembered lives.
MEDWYN McCONACHY
I am an artist/researcher/educator moving through my crone years within an art practice that draws from my relationship with the natural world and to the seen and unseen worlds among which I am privileged to dwell. Wherever I have lived, I have always felt a strong love for the land and it’s history. My practice of ritual and ceremony brings me closer to an experience of place through opening to the mystery, stepping through the portals into inquiry, devotion and reverence.
I interpret these experiences through visual, tactile and performative artmaking. Community and collaborative performance art has been a strong thread in my practice for the last ten years. I work with sound and movement, weaving through and between the conscious and unconscious realms.
My current practice is contemplative and ‘slow’ using textiles, natural dying methods and slow stitching in the making of ceremonial veils as offerings for the revitalization of traditional practices honouring the sacred in the everyday.