I knew the collage I was working on, using the imagery from the shadow photos that I took of me and the sheep, was really two separate pieces.
When I cut them apart, their meanings became clear to me. In this collage, I see the integrated self.
There’s the younger more self-conscious me next to the older self. There’s the ghost of growth and change. And we are all surrounded by the sheep, the familiars who aid in the transformation.
A work in progress, we all reside in the same space.
I wrote on my blog about the other half of the collage called “I Belong To Me“. I can see now they are both about transformation. Maybe it’s the subliminal effect my artist residency is having on me made visible in the work I’m doing during it.
It never ceases to amaze me what can come from a collage. A few years ago I was facilitating a workshop on our inner child and out from my collage pieces came something I’d never told anyone of being touched inappropriately as a child. It was the beginning of a needed healing journey for me.
I’m sorry you had to experience that Barb, but that is such powerful healing.