The Ark [Mining for a Heart of Gold] (2014)
Ink on watercolour paper, gold leaf.
1500 x 1500cm.[0]

Send your dreams where nobody hides, give your tears to the tide.... [0]

“Personal and collective degradation of nature, women, and the feminine is drawing to a close, one person at a time. Intuition, spirituality, and emotional intelligence are now taking their rightful place in partnership with rational, logical thinking. Your health and that of the planet will improve as a result.”

A Different Tide

Can you see the light clearing the horizon?

If you’ve got to let go it’s a chance you’re taking

And you run for your life

And breathe out

The black mirror knows no reflection

It knows not pride or vanity

It cares not about your dreams

It cares not for your pyramid schemes

You say it's money that we need
As if we're only mouths to feed
I know no matter what you say
There are some debts you'll never pay

Working for the church while your life falls apart

Singing halleluiah with the fear in your heart

Every spark of friendship and love will die without a home
Hear the solider groan, "We'll go at it alone"

No way of knowing what any man will do

An ocean of violence between me and you

I’m gunna work it out

Cause time wont work it out for you

I’m gunna work it on out

Oh my little bird in a cage

Oh my little mockingbird sing

I need you to get up on that stage for me, honey

And show the men it’s not about the money

My body is a cage that keeps me

From dancing with the one I love

But my mind holds the key

I’m living in an age

That calls darkness light

Though my language is dead

Still the shapes fill my head

Gunmen and maniacs
All will feature on the freakshow
And I can't do nothing 'bout that, no
But if you hurt what's mine
I'll sure as hell retaliate

You can free the world you can free my mind
Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight

You’re a boy and I’m a girl

But you can lean on me

And I don’t have no fear

I’ll take on any man here

Who says that’s not the way it should be

I stand in front of you

I’ll take the force of the blow

Protection

I stand in front of you

I’ll take the force of the blow

Protection

How can you have a day without a night

Here comes the sun little darlin, here comes the sun

It’s alright

Love, love is a verb
Love is a doing word

Don't be afraid
Open your mouth and say
Say what your soul sings to you

Your mind can never change
Unless you ask it to
Lovingly re-arrange
The thoughts that make you blue
The things that bring you down
Only do harm to you
And so make your choice joy
The joy belongs to you

So turn yourself round

Don’t burn yourself, turn yourself, turn yourself

Around into the sun

To the sun, to the sun

Are you afraid to live your life the way I perceive?

In my arms I’ll catch you

Heavens gunna burn your eyes

Babylon this is your final day

Babylon this is your final call

Read the writin its on the wall

You’re not ‘gon catch me in a rat pack

We not go fallin’ on your death trap

No way…

Bring it on in a different tide
I feel alright, alright, now

Sleep until the sunlight, sleep until sunlight

'Til the sunlight burns you happy

Words appropriated (in order of appearance) from the lyrics of: Bertie Blackman > Run For Your Life | Arcade Fire > Black Mirror - Intervention - Ocean of Noise - Antichrist Television Blues - My Body is a Cage | Massive Attack > Safe From Harm – Protection – Unfinished Sympathy - Daydreaming – Teardrop – What Your Soul Sings | Gorillaz > Demon Days | Thievery Corporation > Heaven’s Gunna Burn Your Eyes - The Richest Man in Babylon – Until the Morning.

Working Drawings

Through

We cannot change the past
There are memories we cannot forget
But we are still writing
The storyline in which they're set

Let the Water

I have always, always known

Why you struggle to believe and why you keep thinking to leave

Stop thinking you’re the only one scared

The only one that’s going to be unprepared, if it all comes down

Aint nothing but your deep fences, deep fences

Aint nothing but your deep fences, need to come down

Oh don’t it feel like we’re all trying to let go

Of something, someone, or feelings kept on the low

Oh and this emotional dishonesty

It just keeps us from releasing all of those fears

And drawing us near

We’ve got to let the water, we’ve got to let the water

Oh don’t it feel like some have lost their inner guide

They’re sleepwalking blind, to their own light

But it’s too dangerous to wake them from their dream

Before they have gleamed what they must

We just gotta trust, they will find their way, home

For there in the shallows lie waiting, no monsters,

You know we can go there

And we can be free of the cells, we’ve imposed upon ourselves

Don’t be afraid of yourself, just let the water

So you can move, so you can move

Aint nothing but your deep fences, deep fences

Need to come down

Let it go, let it go and float up

So you can move, deep fences

Let it go, let it go, let it go and float up

Float

Into my waking life

Your colours seep

Into the corners

Paint my mind a forgotten hue

Surroundings seem an unsightly confusion

There’s no falling for you

I float right up to the surface

And it’s safe to sink a little further

When someone’s there

To bring you up for air

Someone

A million thoughts race through my mind

Only one stays to pass some time

Today it’s the same dark memory

That floated in out of nowhere yesterday

Nothing can undo what has been done

All I can do is try to become

What I needed all along

A person to turn to

When the world came undone

I want to be that someone

To whom you can run

The Otherside

It’s time to put away that broken piano

Time to push aside, that stringless guitar

Don’t even think about trying to ring that bell

Oh no, you know, you know it aint got no body

That bell, you know it aint got no body

It’s time to dance, time to dance

Take a chance, it’s time to dance

Take a chance, it’s time to dance,

Time to dance

To the otherside

Oh a place so light, no walls to play

No walls no walls

For just one moment

No walls no walls

Where you am I, and I am you

And you am I, and we are through

Teardrop

[Massive Attack]

Love, love is a verb
Love is a doing word
Fearless on my breath
Gentle impulsion
Shakes me, makes me lighter
Fearless on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my breath

Night, night after day
Black flowers blossom
Fearless on my breath
Black flowers blossom
Fearless on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my...

Water is my eye
Most faithful mirror
Fearless on my breath
Teardrop on the fire
Of a confession
Fearless on my breath
Most faithful mirror
Fearless on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my breath

You stumble in the dark
You stumble in the dark

Through the Dark

Don’t go reading too much into

What I sing about

You know as well as I do

I’m just stumbling in the dark

And I was never taught guitar

But if I was

It would be to speak my heart

Despite the dark

What made you so sure that I

Didn’t always have an eye

For the dark, from the start

I lived in the dark, I lived in the dark

I lived through the dark, I lived through the dark

I lived, I lived, I lived, I lived, I lived

And my heart, and my heart

Says I don’t need no guitar

What Your Soul Sings

[Massive Attack excerpt]

Don't be afraid
Open your mouth and say
Say what your soul sings to you

All Hands on Deck

I see you standing, I’m looking at you standing there

Was it before too long, I realise my looks a stare

Oh no it’s dawned on me, I’m really lost at sea

I'm gunna need my crew, if I hope to make it through, this

All hands on deck, I don’t want no shipwreck

I’m going to see this through

Coz the jig is up, the noose is down

I’m walking the plank and I aint going to drown

All hands on deck, I don’t want no shipwreck

I’ve got to see this through

From the dawn light, through the sunlight, back to starlight

I’m going to make it through

Toss me my blackjack, I need a shot of thunderclap

Today a nipperkin won’t do

When you swing that boom, step away from the bow

And while you’re in the galley, would you check the hold

I want to know, because I don’t know

If I’ve got what it takes, to brave these waves

All hands on deck

I don’t want no shipwreck

I’m going to see this through

From the dawn light, through the sunlight, back to starlight

I’m going to make it through

Hey you in the crow’s nest!

Weren’t you supposed to be looking out for what was best?

You better get off the rum, it’s all about to come undone

And drop me the telescope, now I know the damn thing it wasn’t broke

We’ve been holding it the wrong way around

All hands on deck
I don’t want no shipwreck

I’m going to see this through

From the dawn light, through the sunlight, back to starlight
I'm going to make it through

From the dawn light, through the sunlight, back to starlight

I’m going to make it through

♫ >> The Temper Trap: Conditions

♫ >> Powderfinger: Odyssey Number Five

♫ >> Crowded House: Recurring Dream

|| > The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

|| > Amelie (2001)

||> Yesman (2008)

Set Sail

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
-Mother Teresa

There are two ways of spreading light.
To be the candle,
or the mirror that reflects it.
-Edith Wharton

If you don't risk anything,
you risk more.
-Erica Jong

Love is what we were born with.
Fear is what we learned here.
-Marrianne Williamson

Always go with the choice that scares you the most,
because that's the one that is going to require
the most from you.
-Caroline Myss

As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
-Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
-Marianne Williamson

I'm not afraid of storms,
for I am learning to sail my ship.
-Louisa May Alcott

Untitled #8

The End is the Beginning

They came down from the mountains

Forced us to retreat

No one saw our faces

Before we vanished into the sea

Several eons later

The tide grew restless

With living beneath

Now we’re riding the night

Into the day

Fighting for the shore

And wings like wax wont save you

From the onslaught

The membrane of existence

Will survive their path

Of least resistance

Animalian guide

Ghosts at its side

Finds us preoccupied

Whispers it’s time to rise

Lost though we are

To the knowledge of ages

Struggling for energy

Burning sacred chapters pages

Ariadnes clue

Will guide us to

A new ending

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