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Name: | Carol Caldwell
(caldwellc@hotmail.co.uk)
| | Date: | Wed 24 Jun 2009 15:53:09 BST | | Subject: | Christmas event | | | Last Christmas I went to the `Becoming a self exhibition` at the Glass house where my story had been included into the piece
Walking round the exhibition I experienced a great sense of wonder at how our lives are connected through the journey we all take part in.
Here was a portrait of myself and my story,sharing the same wall as Patricia Orange and Marianne Saunders, whom I had lived and worked with over 30 years ago in Camphill.
It had such an impact on me as I always thought of myself as a `small person` who was never going to do anything great or make much of a difference in the world.
I was always curious about the lives of others and never felt that I could be someone with a story to tell but here I was standing in front of this wall of impressive people and my face was staring back at me!
A journey had brought us together but the experience I had was a strong awareness of myself in relation to others and a sense of place in the world.... | | | Post Reply | Display replies to this message
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Name: | Monika Schneider
(schneidertito@googlemail.com)
| | Date: | Tue 03 Feb 2009 21:18:13 GMT | | Subject: | Becoming a Self Exhibition | | | I am priest in The Christian Community. When I saw the exhibition and read story after story of peoples lifes, of the moments which changed their lifes, of their deepest wishes, hopes and wounds I felt strongly reminded of a sentence in the gospel. At the very end of the gospel according to St.John it is said: 'Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.' For me (or: I believe? I think?) Deborah's exhibition shows parts of these unwritten books. | | | Post Reply | Display replies to this message
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Name: | Thomas Ravetz
(mandrg@hotmail.com)
| | Date: | Sat 17 Jan 2009 20:36:47 GMT | | Subject: | The play and social sculpture in Stourbridge | | | I feel that the two events, may be especially the play, are a break-through! I felt this morning that the play caused ripples that can be experienced as "articulation of community" which arise for each individual out of her/his own experience. It "sounded together" with one of the early initiatives of Mike when he produced and showed the masks of Stourbridge, showing the variety of a human face of its citizens. The gift of your own lives in the play stirred this "confrontation" (human face and citizens) into individual experience of the network of relationships and the value of individual being. | | | Post Reply | Display replies to this message
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Name: | Alisatair Mcintosh
(t@ravetz.org.uk)
| | Date: | Fri 16 Jan 2009 15:35:15 GMT | | Subject: | The stories | | | Thank you for the wonderful testimonies of people re. your project. There's some really good stuff there, I have only one comment ... There were times when you could possibly have pushed more on the spirituality, to draw out the directions from which people point to hope. In some ways that is a limitation of the people. For example, Frankl had great honesty but I don't think he dived deep into spirituality. His honesty was the right path, but could it have gone further? (And if if had, would he have become as well known in a secular/humanist world, I wonder?). And Messenger ... she saw the hollowness of the world, but my question was whether she saw beyond that? If not, her position is no more than existentialist which, in my view, is ultimately nihilistic - see PhD link at http://www.alastairmcintosh.com/rekindlingcommunity.htm#research | | | Post Reply | Display replies to this message
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Name: | Katharine Messenger
(katharinemessenger@yahoo.co.uk)
| | Date: | Tue 06 Jan 2009 10:36:15 GMT | | Subject: | Becoming a Self | | | Deborah - lovely website! I have been thinking that becoming a self is not a moment in time but is a series of hundreds of thousands of moments in a life-time. Some of the selves have completed their lives so it is possible to look back and see what is the important story to tell; though for some, their stories are told from the point of view of another, because they themselves have died. For others of us, the narrative is still unfolding and we are continuing to become. It would be interesting in the future to see what living contributors feel when we look back at the moment in time when we wrote or told our stories. For me this project co-incided with the moment in my life when I urgently needed to become my self. How can I ever thank you?
Keep going - it is beautiful! Kx | | | Post Reply | Display replies to this message
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Name: | diogenes
(diogenes.mock@blueyonder.co.uk)
| | Date: | Tue 30 Dec 2008 11:07:46 GMT | | Subject: | social sculpture | | | An interesting project that raises more questions at the moment...........
I would be interested to see/read more about YOUR process - why and how is it socialsculpture? How did you get your contributors to contribute - invitation, conversation.. - when where how?
Are you going to continue your blog?
How do you make choices like: photos colour or b&w; text by the individual or digested by you - can we see what is your in-put and what is unedited?
If you have collaborators, what is their role and how are they credited on this site?
Maybe a link to Shelleys website?
All the best
diogenes
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Name: | peter howe
(howe04@googlemail.com)
| | Date: | Tue 18 Nov 2008 21:38:29 GMT | | Subject: | becoming | | | what a rich and wonderful world you are creating where everyone's story unfolds. a glimpse of infinite depths and eternal possibilities. as Bea said "I just never thought of it like that, darling. xxx | | | Post Reply | Display replies to this message
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