the world of the trickster
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The World of the Trickster. Forms & Faces of Trickster. Do You See What I’ve Become? Geode Collage. May I Haunt You? Geode Collage. God’s Eye Southern Utah. First Snow Granville, Mass. Blue Train Rockland, Maine. The Gaze of What’s Gone Southern Utah. Goethe’s Doors - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The World of the Trickster
Forms & Faces of Trickster
Do You See What I’ve Become?
Geode Collage
May I Haunt You?
Geode Collage
God’s Eye
Southern Utah
First Snow
Granville, Mass.
Blue Train
Rockland, Maine
The Gaze of What’s Gone
Southern Utah
Goethe’s DoorsBasel, Switzerland
Trickster in Autumn
Granville, Mass.
Gaudi’s ScreamBarcelona, Spain
Have I Been Here Too Long?
Gorges de Verdun, France
Rock Spirit
Pamaquid Point, Maine
What Are You Looking At?
Seguret, France
But…
Westfield, Mass.
Gourd with Hackles Raised
Westfield, Mass.
Doorway in Cezanne’s Town
Aix en Provence, France
Male Begonia in Evening Light
Granville, Massachussets
Rock DancerPage, Arizona
I’ve Seen Such Inward Complications
Banyon Tree, Hawaii
Feelings of First Love
Banyon Tree, Hawaii
Groping Forward
Wind River, Wyoming
How Did It Happen?Wind River, Wyoming
Uncertain PhoenixWind River, Wyoming
Agony in a Calm Green Dusk
Oahu, Hawaii
Hubbard River Water Sprite
Granville, Mass.
Memorial to Vanished Mastodons
Valley of Fire, Nevada
Sea Serpent or Claw Icon
Coast of Maine
Haunting
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sand Remembering the Spirit of Water
Southern Utah
Riding a Dragon
From the Air, West Texas
Rock Dancer IISouthern Utah
Cathedral SpiritBarcelona, Spain
Cave Dragon
Northern Arizona
The Late David Shainberg’s Shoes
Truro, Mass.
Lower Kingdom Divinity
Geode Collage
Kraken RisingSouthern Utah
Sun God
Westfield, Mass.
Tensions of Being
Roots and Rock,Vancouver, BC
Being Somewhere Close to the Center
Roots and Rock Collage,Vancouver, BC
Trickster Places
A Trickster RoadDeath Valley, Calif.
Dream LandscapeDeath Valley, Calif.
A Glimpse of What’s Real
Northern Arizona
Imagination a Little Wild
Page, Arizona
Inside of Love
Page, Arizona
Come This Way
Page, Arizona
Trickster Reflection
Granville, Mass.
Trickster Gatherings
What Rocks SayZion National Park
Morning AssemblyNear Tuscon, Arizona
Chaos DancersNear Lyon, France
A Comfortable Exchange
Vancouver, BC
Together
Granville, Mass.
Watching the Sky
Stonehenge
Trickster Changes
Cradle of LightVancouver, BC
Fractal Passing
Death Valley, Calif.
A Momentary Fractal Kingdom
Granville, Mass.
What Emerges in Hiding
Mollala, Oregon
One Stage of Decay
Benares, India
Spring Enlightenment
Westfield, Mass.
Summer Enlightenment
Westfield, Mass.
Autumn Enlightenment
Westfield, Mass.
Clouds
Provence, France
Clouds
Atkins Farms Parking Lot, Amherst, Mass
Clouds
Provence, France
Trickster Flying with Clouds
Mall, Hadley, Mass.
Clouds
Mall, Hadley, Mass.
Clouds
Mall, Hadley, Mass.
Clouds
Mall, Hadley, Mass.
Clouds
Westfield, Mass.
Clouds
Near Lyon, France
Soul Drifting Toward Death at the Close of the Day
Caromb, France
Release
Caromb, France
Clouds
Danbury, Conn.
Who Is Trickster?
We constantly distinguish—right and wrong, sacred and profane, clean and dirty, male and female, young and old, living and dead--and in every case trickster will cross the line and confuse the distinction....There are also cases in which trickster creates a boundary, or brings to the surface a distinction previously hidden from sight.
—Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World
Trickster conveys that our assurances about ourselves and our realities are illusions. The trickster’s world is a place of chaos and uncertainty, and it is our world, concealing our own deep ambivalences and our desire—or at least our proclivity—to undermine the very certainties we create.
—www.NuanceProject.com
Freud knew what this force was and how it alone could wrest life out of death’s grasp, and his word, Eros, describes well the trickster’s seizure of life. Yet the joy that the trickster gives and receives in penetrating nothingness and contradicting contradiction, in shaping and reshaping man’s life without end, rises from an even deeper source than Freud knew of—tougher, gentler, far more ironic.
—Robert D. Pelton, The Trickster in West Africa
Trickster is Nature. (S)he is Art. (S)he is the twists,
turns, the backflips of our consciousness as it grasps at the no-
thingness that is.
Shrill tones slide upward, downward. Around the bird’s
trill, shadows cluster. Has something appeared in this place? or is it nothing? Water trinkles between rocks. Air stirs old leaves. Voices, almost inaudible, whisper.
We are here.
A man (the n father) A woman (then mother)
A da u gh t er (t h en sis t er ) A son (and brother)
We are here.
In this day. In this hour.