humans now stand at a pivotal cross-roads in their developmental history. Our relationship with the earth, other nature and ourselves must undertake a profound psychic transformation if our species and most of other nature is to survive and continue.

The art works presented here are a contribution to the enormous task of transforming our modern human relationship within nature. The works consist of painted ‘image stories’ and their emergent ecological narrative. Together they form an interwoven body of initiatory art. They carry the story of transformation from the modern singular individual mind with its dualistic relationship with nature to the multifaceted, connective outerior mind of nature.  They are essentially ‘tools of initiatory transformation’ to aid in the reattunement of our modern psyche with our Earthland. 

Global, societal and environmental factors are intimately entwined. Whilst we are engaged in the struggle for functional ecological consciousness and reattunement within nature, we must also develop and synthesize a profound working commitment to unconditional, universal rights and social justice for all human and more-than-human beings. This is the only way to challenge and change our global disfunction.

The developmental journey of these image-stories opens access to the deeply layered connective psyche of nature and our lost ancestral ecological knowledge and heritage. These works contribute to the task of our psychic reconciliation within nature and the restoration of our Earthland. A process of reteaching ourselves the ways of the connective outerior mind of nature and the reclaiming of our Earthminds.

It is now vital that we learn to live by connective streams of ecological consciousness, that we are entwined in multi-layered conversations with the other beings in our ecological world - with the wind in tall river grasses, with the archaic call of the heron. So we are able to look upon a mature Scot’s pine, breathe in its medicine, feel grounded in its root system, join in its long-sight - respect it as an elder. Attuning our responsibility to mutuality and equity, our responsibility to take care,our responsibility to our earthland.