877 + 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 ALL + 10 SEPTEMBER 2017 THE + 10 SEPTEMBER 2018 THINGS + 10 SEPTEMBER 2019 YOU ARE + BLESSING THE SILVER TOOTH IMPROVISATIONAL ADVENTURE REHEARSALS

WONDER

AWE

KERBLANG

DANCE

RADICAL

HOPE

BLESSINGS

FLOW

OPEN

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THE

AWCCLJ

SILVER

CLJAWC

TOOTH

AWCCLJ

IMPROVISATIONAL

CLJAWC

ADVENTURE

AWCCLJ

REHEARSALS

 

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NATURE’S GOSPEL R/EVOLUTIONARY BLOOOM SONG:

UNFOLDING SONICS OF RESURGENCE + BLESSINGS + BLEE BLISS

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YOURVOICEISMYLULLABYLOTUSBLOOM                                             Catherine L. Johnson  2010

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To enlarge and for detail of the original painting, please click on the image

For further information on the LOTUS series, please click on the link below

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https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/lotus20ten-yourvoiceismylullaby-lotusbloom-the-lotus-20ten-portfolio-a-cycle-of-sixteen-works-summer-of-2010-catherine-l-johnson-artist-suites-of-the-five-senses-sensual-sensuous-th/

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#806 + I BREATHe + SUBmarINe + INternal + vioLET + “THAT & THIS”

http://www.naval-encyclopedia.com/ww2/us-navy

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USS Hartford attack submarine breaking through Arctic ice.

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 A violet lotus blooms signifies a spiritual meaning of ascension, enlightenment, or rebirth.

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A person’s path in life is said to be similar to that of the

LOTUS.

Starting at the

SEED

stage,

early in the karmic cycle,

through to the bud emerging from the dirty water,

representing a person following the path

of spirituality and leaving attachment behind,

and finally

BLOSSOMING,

this is when a person has become

fully

AWAKENED.

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Please click link for  LOTUS 20TEN: A portfolio/ suites/ of the five senses: 

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/lotus20ten-yourvoiceismylullaby-lotusbloom-the-lotus-20ten-portfolio-a-cycle-of-sixteen-works-summer-of-2010-catherine-l-johnson-artist-suites-of-the-five-senses-sensual-sensuous-th/

 

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VIOLET

has the highest vibration in the visible spectrum.

Violet opens intuitive channels.

It is a color that is attracted to beautiful things

 and has a fragility,

sensitivity and vulnerability to it.

The color violet is of kindness,

inspiring unconditional and selfless love,

devoid of ego, encouraging sensitivity and compassion. 

Violet is the color of the humanitarian,

using its better judgment to do good for others

– combining wisdom and power with sensitivity and humility. 

Violet encourages creative pursuits and seeks inspiration and originality. 

Violet exudes a quiet form of dignity.

Violet is the color of the evolved soul. 

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I was a submarine.

I am a submarine.

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Diving, concealed, below the surface, unseen.

Breathing as a mermaid.

At times, holding my breath

until I would fall backwards

or

was sent to a dark innocent ocean.

No one would know my whereabouts

in my silence, in my solitude.

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My eyes were periscopes, forever scanning

the hushed life below,

the infinite skies above,

aware of the jagged edges

between land and sea.

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Suddenly, I would open wide

– inhale and

soar up

– breaking open the astonished still seas.

Majestically.

A water birth.

A sudden kiss.

Awe riSING fire on water.

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I would exhale all that I

had seen and heard and felt below.

Triumphant, I would reveal, tell.

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Glistening, I am radiant,

with all my secrets,

handwritten maps

and

sparkling pearls inside me.

Sleek and scarred,

me a shining pearl diver.

Life is living itself in me.

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Only a select Navy could detect me.

And, from that select Navy, only

one could SEE me

sensing the prism,

the steady calm of

my boundless Song of Songs,

the ancient luminous hallelujah hymns,

the blues and the gospels

of my woman’s voice, and

feel the private rapture within me

– ask me the story, my flowing story,

and listen, listening

and,

then shape

beautiful questions

with the bow

of  music.

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Quietly, I dive deep, and deeper

beyond anyone’s

sound and sight,

for spheric, shimmering,

iridescent rainbow 

pearls

– and I rise,

with pure amazement,

and elegant grace.

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Rhythm.

Rhythmically, breathing

the natural tide of awakenings

and the perfumed blooms

of Life’s simple joys.

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I was a submarine.

I am a submarine.

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Catherine L. Johnson

26 May 2018

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NOTE:  PEARLS. VIOLET. SOULSONIC MUSECATALYST.

I follow  with complete dedication and trust to

what is issued/issuing/sounding within me  

– and, then later I research the visual elements I have used.

Above is my research on the color violet.

Throughout is my research on submarines.

Anthony Cox / THAT & THIS was/is my  pearl, my soulsonic catalyst and muse.

Below is from my “post-creative process” research on/of pearls.:

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In Ancient China, it was believed that pearls

were actually spittle of dragons when they flew through the air to create rain,

therefore many Chinese wore pearls as talismans against fire.

Pearls  are symbolic of purity, innocence and faith.

With their natural elegance and beauty,

pearls are said to give the wearer

a sense of calmness

and centeredness,

and to promote faith,

loyalty, truth and purity. 

Pearls help one connect with the Goddess,

the ultimate feminine energy.

Pearls enhance personal integrity

and help clear ones mind so that it may be

a clean and clear channel

for wisdom and spiritual guidance.

They were once thought to be the tears of gods and goddesses in different ancient lore.

The pearl has been associated through the ages with the “matrix of life” itself. 

Pearls are associated with the 3rd, Sacral Chakra and 7th Crown Chakra.

Pearls will balance and heal all chakras

Pearls assist in the search for higher wisdom and truth,

absorbing negative energy from one who wears it,

assisting/guiding one to SEE

and deal with the truth of self.

A pearl moves one forward to inner wisdom

and strengthens and nurtures the growth of love.

The metaphysical properties of pearls blesses

a person to open up

and

explore the meaning and discover the purpose

of one’s “true self.”

 

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During the summer of 1985,

I created a series of work

using the shape

and the poetic,

multiple metaphors of a submarine

as vehicle, a confessional, a memoir

of self-portraits.  

I understand the quiet,

the honed senses,

the concealing, the intensity of suppression,

the necessity of vision quests.

the “call” /summons of/to the hero/ine’s

ADVENTURE / JOURNEY / LOTUSSUBMARINE VOYAGE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey

https://billmoyers.com/content/ep-1-joseph-campbell-and-the-power-of-myth-the-hero%E2%80%99s-adventure-audio/

and  the voyages within the dark nights of the soul.

The magnificence of soaring UP,

being able to fully BREATHe,

come out of hiding,

and tell,

telling the truth is always beautiful transcendence.

Overcoming, Exodus,

victorious liberation

opens UP

a vast golden field to enter

– to dance / to soar with one’s FULL natural wing span

with happiness and child like joy.

The art testified the poetic associations

of what a submarine

is to me.

No one knowing and my knowing.

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In 1993,

I wrote

“Listen, Listen, Listen

I Hear the Bloom Within the Seed”,

a libretto and the sonic catalyst

to my 1994 solo art exhibition of the same title.

I was unaware that I had actually inscribed an oracle,

a blueprint,

of what would become

my own vision quest

with all the stages of the hero/ine’s journey.

I have learned/discovered to welcome the “call”

and 

I abide.

 I no longer refuse the call.*

THAT is, I know THIS call for the journey, the voyage, the adventure

IS

beauty, truth and blissfreedom.

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*Refusal of the Call: 

Often when the call is given,

the future hero/ine first refuses to heed it.

This may be from a sense of duty or obligation,

fear, insecurity, a sense of inadequacy, or any of a range of reasons 

that work to hold the person in his or her current circumstances.

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Joseph Campbell:

“Refusal of the summons converts the adventure into its negative.

Walled in boredom, hard work, or ‘culture,’

the subject loses the power

of

significant affirmative action

and

becomes a victim to be saved.

His/Her flowering world becomes a wasteland of dry stones

and

his/her life feels meaningless

— even though, like King Minos, he may through titanic effort

succeed in building an empire or renown.

Whatever house he/she builds,

it will be a house of death:

a labyrinth of cyclopean walls

to hide him/her from his/her minotaur.

All he/she can do is create new problems for him/herself

and

await the gradual approach of his/her disintegration.”

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“The world still waits for the truth that will set us free

—my truth, your truth, our truth

—the truth that was seeded in the earth

when each of us arrived here

formed in the image of God.

Cultivating that truth, I believe, is the authentic vocation of every human being.”

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Parker J. Palmer,

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (Jossey-Bass: 2000), 11, 15,16-17, 36.

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 “Let your life speak.”

–  an old Quaker saying.

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“Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it,

listen to what it intends to do with you.

Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to,

let your life tell you what truths you embody,

what values you represent.

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Parker J. Palmer,

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (Jossey-Bass: 2000), 2-3.

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XUSS Medregal (SS-480)

http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08480.htm

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A MASTERWORK. A MASTER’S WERK.  A MASTERPIECE.

Please click on link below to listen, listen, listen to samplings of

Anthony Cox’s original compositions:

https://ateliersawano.com/products/ske333029

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LOTUS20TEN: YOURVOICEISMYLULLABY + LOTUSBLOOM + The LOTUS 20TEN portfolio: a cycle of sixteen works Summer of 2010 + Catherine L. Johnson/ARTIST + Suites of the five senses = SensUal/SensUous + “ThoU and I/I and ThoU” poem

 

 

Catherine L. Johnson

LOTUS20TEN:

YOURVOICEISMYLULLABY+LOTUSBLOOM

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For further information, please click: 

https://catherineljohnson.art/2021/02/21/lotus-a-cycle-of-sixteen-works-2010/

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28″ H x 22″ W  

Mixed media on board

2010

Please click twice on image to enlarge.

 

 

“ThoU and I/I and ThoU”

Come to me with your coal and diamonds:

with your armor and secrets;

with your sweet water;

with the vast blue sky in your mouth and ear;

with your worn and eternal humanity; and

with your desire to open your blood 

to love. 

 

Come to me with your root and veins:

in mud and debris;

in fear and bitterness;

in uncertainty and tears;

in shreds and shame; and

in belief and faith

to love.

Come to me with your hands open:

to breathe;

to fall;

to rise;

to break open; and

to speak and sing

to love.

 

Come to me with touch and a soft candle:

for no language;

for music;

for unbound universes;

for unmade bed cathedrals; and

for joy 

to love.

 

Come to me to release the divinity:

of all the colors and tastes and sounds of true blue;

of once excruciating scars;

now of nourishing and unspeakable sex;

of gentle caress; and

of being found

to love.

 

 

As a gospel song of freedom,

I will respond the same

for you.

To, for and with love.

 

 

Catherine L. Johnson

24 June 2010

 

 

 

The LOTUS 20TEN portfolio:

a cycle of sixteen works created

during the summer of 2010.

A portfolio, suites, of the five senses. 

SensUal/SensUous

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The titles of each work: 

YOUR SIGHT IS MY WATER+LOTUS DREAM

YOUR TASTE IS MY BLISS+LOTUS BLOOM

YOUR SCENT IS MY SWEET LOTUS CUP

YOUR TOUCH IS MY LOTUS SONG SUNG

YOUR VOICE IS MY ROOT+LOTUS

YOUR VOICE IS MY LULLABY +LOTUS BLOOM

YOUR VOICE IS MY LOTUS METEOR+EROS

YOUR VOICE IS MY DOVE+LOTUS BLOOM

YOUR VOICE IS MY PELVIS+LOTUS WING

YOUR VOICE IS MY LOTUS+PELVIS

YOUR VOICE IS MY HEART+LOTUS BLOOM

YOUR VOICE IS MY DIAMOND+LOTUS BLOOM

YOUR VOICE IS MY WILDERNESS +LOTUS BLOOM

YOUR VOICE IS MY HOME+LOTUS BLOOM

YOUR LOVE IS MY EROS+LOTUS BLOOM

YOUR LOVE IS MY LOVE +LOTUS BLOOM

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https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/lotus-lotus-sutra-blooming-heart-light/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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