by rjacksonpaton | Nov 2, 2016 | connections, creativity, ethnoautobiography, lost and found, lost homes, marked by place, photos, uncoveredwagon, work of body
next week a special exhibition opens at the Amon Carter museum in Fort Worth, Border Cantos, with work by Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo. this exhibit brings together numerous strands that i gather together in my work. i first heard about Misrach’s...
by rjacksonpaton | Sep 22, 2016 | connections, en/gendering embodiment, ethnoautobiography, readings, work of body, writing
embodied trans*formation episode 1: Collecting dis-words 9-21-16 This story began as an effort to experience the relationship between shame and trauma. I have a number of references that I glanced at, including van der Kolk’s (2014) The Body Keeps the Score, but I...
by rjacksonpaton | Jun 23, 2016 | connections, creativity, en/gendering embodiment, readings, uncoveredwagon, vulnerable ecology
i saw this quote from artist Frank Stella at the Fort Worth Modern the other day… then i was read this passage from Helen Macdonald’s extraordinary H is for hawk… “Chalk landscapes do this to me; bring an exhilarating, on-tiptoe sense that some...
by rjacksonpaton | Jun 17, 2016 | en/gendering embodiment, readings, sex & love
this might be a longer post, but for now wanting to link at least two things: my earlier post, understanding confusion, when i mentioned the teaching about how do i live my life if i know that my cells have been in constant communication since i was two cells old....
by rjacksonpaton | Jun 17, 2016 | connections, eco-somatics, en/gendering embodiment, ethnoautobiography, readings
this story begins with Somatica® trainee-mate Charlie Glickman, who in their endless highly skilled generosity shared a book recommendation, Trauma is really strange. but as so often happens in my life-process, i didn’t get it right away. guess i wasn’t...
by rjacksonpaton | Jun 5, 2016 | connections, creativity, eco-somatics, en/gendering embodiment, ethnoautobiography, readings, writing
understanding confusion for Pan, Fenua, Jenny, Lisa & Amy, Shawn, Meredith, Sunanda, and probably others… with gratitude this story begins a few months back with brené brown (actually it begins much further back as the illustration shows!). she asked a question in...
