The Red Centre

(shamanicascensionmaps.weebly.com)

 

Base camp near Uluru (Ayers Rock) central Australia: a place of heart dancing. Entry through Yellow Water Billabong - the eye of the Brolga.

 

Map legend: Even rock can hold a heart vibration. Can you hear it?

 

Field notes: The Australian Brolga (Grus rubicunda - the latin = 'crane suffused with red').

 

~

 

...on surrender, and the Heart at the base of the spine

I no longer guess a future.

And do not know how we end

nor where

 

Though I know a story about maps, for you...

 

on finding the Brolga...

They are private and shy

in an unknown, uncaught way.

 

They are dancers who leap and bow (and fly)

with lightness as they move,

Their shyness slips away.

They are charming with desire in them.

 

It is the dancing they are known for.

 

~

 

Adapted from 'The Story', Michael Ondaatje Handwriting - poems (Macmillan Publishers)

 

 

1 June 2011

 

 

Mixed media and collage in large moleskine sketchbook.

Done