Animist Journey 2020

Naomi Kennedy has over the years harvested a somatic therapy process with metaphysical process blending, the surreal with the real.

When the Journey began there was a deep listening of dream _ Holographic kinetics and Jungian feminist psychology lens that both Naomi and Sharna host and hold close to there hearts.

When contact was made between this 13 year community creative workshop design critter and a 10 year transpersonal art therapist.  The vessel that was born was an aspect of the Hero’s Journey.  But within that was many layers of deep healing process.  Stepping into ancestral healing both Naomi and Sharna deepened into Danielle Foors ancestral process’ and came to understand the action taking aspect of the psyche as the animist.  The animist untamed unreeled can be a force of great joy or great destruction depending on its subconscious patterns that may be coming from the grey tellers off the side of the DNA strands which are effected and mother sister repeated in the DNA and family violence blood process.

Inherited behaviours are difficult adjust and some points talk therapy is not the way to reach these deeper layers.

In connection and co creation Sharna and Naomi came to develop the deep psychological metaphysical journey we coin as the ANImist JOurney.

Back in North America working with marginalised community,Naomi started to noticed that group process does a storming norming forming process which once the group begins to dissemble can have a intensity of lateral violence in storming.  But discovered if the group had a intense disciplined last few weeks needed to prepare for an exhibition, then the group deconstructions storms into oblivion with a exhibition as empowerment.

Leaving the participants satisfied and witnessed in all the aspects of the weeks journey.

Tonight you will see many layers of cross pollination and in your own way experience a performance art piece that will be a personal journey for your own animist and soul.  Touching on the deep unspoken places and patterns to be witnessed and exercised out of the being.

Pou/ a Maori word taught to Naomi from her 18 months of weekly healing process with a Romiromi fertility practitioner, is that meaning Pillar of support. One part of the process was to call in the pillars of support before any spiritual aspect or conduct was established.  In the clay we explored which being what animals or supernaturals stood in the four directions as our Pillars of support.

One aspect of the clay was an exploration of the womb space and the medial self.  Naomi’s Life long Canine companions name was Quist which in Gaelic translates to leaf.

So in being directed to feel into the bowl and create a bowl with the eyes closed it was first very like a rib cage and then went into beyond an solidified into a leaf reminding on the tale of thumbalina and then realising Quist a large component of Naomi boundary journey had come from Quist.  A large amount of Naomis Journey to participate in society from being a street involved human for over 6 years.

Was because of Quist and when she passed it was in the throws of grief that Naomi accessed her freedom and was able to travel abroad.  We were directed from the bowl to draw up the concept of the medial self, the wild instinct the mysterious navigator, so when directing it became the vulva like periscope on the leaf boats peer.

Repressenting the passion rooted drive to just follow the desire in ones life to know where one needed to be and when.  The bowl was my foundation that held me and carried me both in her phycail then in grief Naomi was motivated to float across the world to new waters.  Waking at 5 am one morning , found a flight that landed on a dear friend s memorial date.   So grief being transmuted through art has been a big vessel of solidifying the vessel of floatation so Naomis passion can motivate.

When someone dies the permanence of the rib cage solidifies into a vessel and nothing is as hard as that - can either let it sink and sit or can reform that grief into a firm sturdy floatation device.

Truth Bones Coyote tales

Travel to Australia I had dreamed of Aus since I was a child, being inthewaters with crocodiles. I had prophecy of your wife your wife, many times many layers I have ran into layers of grief on many planes of existence

Acrylic on canvas

The rattling bones of truth, the awareness that You can disempower with words if you tell to much - the awareness of shut down overwhelm, the outside view of self the ideal the idea of sanctuary outside of home, the trust and the shadow reflections the three arrows of change.

All about me all about you.  All about how it rolls so it me and you creating tasks at hand why the smoking and why on this land.  The black fire container an the gift of receive.

The Cocoons:  so in a completely synergistic reaction and response to group process, we moved into a unique constriction, with plastic process.  Utalizing the cellophane to activate somatic blockages in the physical body, we moved through grounding and clearing , then bound the body utalizing incarnations to call the blockages and grief up through the blood out of the organs and eventually into the plaster that was the face mask.  Calling from very organ the grief and blockages stored the stroking and placement of the plaster continually drew the interference into the being made mask.  The mask once thick enough and set, was then removed in a swoop action of cutting free the cellophane calling the silt the dissolved emotions the dissolved trauma to flood and flush with the healing energies of the blue and white stars to be drawing in a waterfall finale into the mask an the mask then pulled off and removing the grief from the physical body.  Every person had individual reactions and responses to the process, so masks where very painful to remove.  Spitiual protection and healing conduct was initiated through out the process.

The grief mask process was developed by Naomi Kennedy in 2017 in conjunction with Lindsay Delaronde in. Grief as empowerment witness process called HeART space, a month long grievance gallery, seeded and developed by Naomi Kennedy.  Asiisted and formed into its Full vessel with Marion.

A fusion of a art therapy project over 3 months with Sharna Mcleod, in Brisbane Aus. 2020. Four participants. Many levels of growth and healing.