Hellooo and most happiest festive-time greetings to you!
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It just so happens that I have been up since 430 this morning. Truly. I woke up and was awake –so- got out of my bed and started my day. I have been energized and organizing my life since 430 this morning. It is now eleven pm. Maybe it’s the end of the year wrap up, maybe it’s the end of the seventh year for me in Glasgow, and MAYBE I’m just obsessive. In any case that’s a straight 18 hours of organization and still going strong. Maybe it’s because I am going to India next week. Maybe I have a vitamin deficiency. Maybe I am not really awake at all.
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In just over one week I leave for India. I am very excited for my journey. I am going to explore the indigenous dances and music of the regions specifically in relation to the *spiritual* motivations as a way of furthering my ideas of “filmmaker as shaman”. A filmmaker connects the present world to a future moment, in the same way a shaman does. I feel that exploring the physicality of these ancient dances will give me clues between the physical and psychic dimensions. In any case it will be a real adventure. I start in Delhi but beyond that have no firm plans, the journey will unfold for me. The call is similar, as many of you are aware, to before I went to Peru, and consequently before I moved to Scotland. There are important things for me to learn there and bring into my practice, and hence, the world. I feel privileged and grateful for the opportunity to explore these places both physical and not. And I look forward to reporting back to you my experiences.
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As I will be gone for sometime, this is the last opportunity you have to download my music, or purchase prints for some months. I encourage you to do both, as they are extraordinary works and worthy of having!
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I send you blessings and joy in this festive season and wish you and yours wellness and good fortune in 2008,
Kate E. xx
Most blessed festivus abundant celebratory greetings to you in this darkness!
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As a recent returnee from the land of abundant donuts and pancakes I feel mostly the abundance of the belly variety….and probably my expanding rear portion in relation to consumption of sweetie bread products. That said I take all these external manifestations of my internal journey with grace. Or I’d like to think so. Mayhaps in my mentioning of my posterior I have not the comfort one should in extra cushionage.
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But I digress.
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My point being it is a time of celebrating the abundance in one’s life, and being the light in the darkness, in gathering with those whom bring us comfort, laughter and joy and infusing others with that goodness. That is a beautiful thing. Whilst toting about on my journeys I often get told that I am an ‘inspiration’. What a lovely complement really! The word inspiration comes from the latin ‘spiro’ – meaning ‘I breathe’. It is also the root of the word ‘spirituality’. To ‘inspire’ is to be ‘in breath’ and perhaps being ‘inspirational’ means bringing that breath to others. It IS a gorgeous concept. Would that we could all manifest ourselves as inspirations in our world. Wherein we’d all be breathing better and with one another. In harmony and blessing.
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My path of breath continues with planning in place for a development trip to Jaipur in India. I am going there to study a form of sacred dance, deriving from the gypsies called ‘Kathak’. It will serve as inspiration (ha ha!) to the next stage of the “Threads” project wherein I am developing new music and live performance to complement the film projections. This dance and music form is ancient and is where many dances derive from including flamenco. I shall keep you posted on the wheres and hows of that. But I am extremely excited. I feel as I did before going to Peru and working with the Incas, a very powerful connection to this journey and how it will inform the work I create, and healing therein.
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In addition I am now making my plans to go to Tokyo and Singapore in March/April time, where I will be lecturing and exhibiting my films and prints. And speaking of prints, I have some remaining for you to have for your very own both in the US and UK. I know many have been waiting for the time to own these one of a kind prints and now is the time!
Lots of love in your life always
Kate E.
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