SoulCollage® – Page 10 – Claire Perkins the Artful Alchemist

Wing Whisperer

Claire art, poetry, SoulCollage® April 16, 2016April 16, 2016art, poetry, SoulCollage®

Wing Whisperer
11″x14″ Mixed Media on Aquabord

I am the one who brings the gift of freedom

I am the one who helps you to find your wings, for they are already yours, hiding within you just waiting for your heart’s invitation to unfold

I am the one who sees your unique beauty, the colors that are yours alone

I am the one who opens my hands in release

I am the one who watches in gratitude and delight as you climb into the sky

I am the witness to your flight

I am the grounded presence that holds space for your freedom

I am passion and power, and these I give to you through grace

I am the one with open eyes, open heart, open hands

I look skyward into the realm of Spirit

I am a priestess, an alchemist, a sorceress of light and transformation

I am the freer of dreams

I am Wing Whisperer

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Recently I had the honor of creating my first commissioned piece for a client. She had a clear idea of what she wanted and the meaning she wanted it to convey. It was both challenging and fun to interpret her vision through my own heart and hands, translating its beauty and depth through paint and paper. When I finished the piece, I wasn’t sure what to call it so I decided to use the “I am the one who . . .” reading process that I learned in SoulCollage®. I let the woman in the painting speak and learned that her name is Wing Whisperer.

We all have wings waiting to unfold. May you find your own Wing Whisperer (hint: she may be inside of you) so you can spread your wings and fly, coloring this world in a way that only you can.

Becoming the Dream

Claire dreams, quotes, synchronicity, transformation January 15, 2016awakening, becoming, dreams, expressive art, perception, personal evolution, SoulCollage®, transformation

In a marvelous example of synchronicity (or how life rhymes), I am working on my new book, Fallen from the Dreaming Tree, this morning. I have just been inspired to write that my protagonist “weaves a dream from the quantum and finds its diamond sparkle so beautifully alluring that she steps into her dream and becomes it,” when I decide to take a break.

I pop onto the web to check emails and such, where I find a notice on Facebook that Seena Frost, the founder of SoulCollage®, has passed away. In the beautiful video tribute accompanying that post, Seena is heard quoting Meister Eckhart: “When the soul wishes to experience something she throws an image of the experience out before her and enters into her own image.” Oh, how beautifully Eckhart has captured and mirrored what I’m struggling to say.

Next I do a Google search to find and verify the words of Eckhart’s quote and find this post from Robert Moss, written several years ago, in which he explores the same quote and idea and challenges us not just to hear Eckhart’s words, but to walk with them and live into the essence of them.

Which is exactly the meaning and purpose I’m hoping to convey through the story I’m writing.

Rather than being dismayed that what I’m writing is not saying anything new, I am encouraged that what I’m trying to say is a deep Truth that other mystics and teachers have known and shared in their own words and ways. Perhaps this Truth itself is an image that we continue to throw before us so that we can live into it more fully with each experience. While my story may not be new, may I tell it in new words that send forth an image of Truth. And may we all learn to live into it more deeply each day, each dream, each life.

I am grateful for wise teachers like Robert Moss (with Active Dreaming), Seena Frost (with SoulCollage®) and Lucia Capacchione (with Creative Journal Expressive Arts) who have each done so much to pave the way and provide tools and processes to empower the journey of fully living our soul’s dream.