Black and White Series: Clear Night Dream (2005)

For the past week or so, I've been reading BOUNDARIES OF THE SOUL: THE PRACTICE OF JUNG'S PSYCHOLOGY, by June Singer.

Calendar Series: 30th Month / River Dreaming of the Ocean and Sky (1988)

Here I combined images from a solo road trip during which I visited my parents and sister in Northern California in the spring of 1987. This combination of landscape elements exists only in my mind but depicts a place I have visited often. I remember learning as a child that all rivers were heading to the ocean and that at the ocean the water somehow rose into the sky to form clouds which rained into the rivers. 

A few years ago, in the fall, I was sitting alone beside Nooksack Falls in the North Cascade Mountains and remembered about that cycle and began to write the following poem: 

FALL 2002 POEM 

I carried myself to the mountains 

Though the ocean wasn’t there 

I carried the ocean to the mountains 

Though the ocean wasn’t there 

I carried God to the mountains 

Though God wasn’t there 

God carried me to the mountains 

Though I wasn’t there 

God carried God to God 

Though God wasn’t there