Soul Drifting Toward Death at the Close of the Day
Caromb, France
Release
Caromb, France
Clouds
Danbury, Conn.
Who Is Trickster?
We constantly distinguish—right and wrong, sacred and profane, clean and dirty, male and female, young and old, living and dead--and in every case trickster will cross the line and confuse the distinction....There are also cases in which trickster creates a boundary, or brings to the surface a distinction previously hidden from sight.
—Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World
Trickster conveys that our assurances about ourselves and our realities are illusions. The trickster’s world is a place of chaos and uncertainty, and it is our world, concealing our own deep ambivalences and our desire—or at least our proclivity—to undermine the very certainties we create.
—www.NuanceProject.com
Freud knew what this force was and how it alone could wrest life out of death’s grasp, and his word, Eros, describes well the trickster’s seizure of life. Yet the joy that the trickster gives and receives in penetrating nothingness and contradicting contradiction, in shaping and reshaping man’s life without end, rises from an even deeper source than Freud knew of—tougher, gentler, far more ironic.
—Robert D. Pelton, The Trickster in West Africa
Trickster is Nature. (S)he is Art. (S)he is the twists,
turns, the backflips of our consciousness as it grasps at the no-
thingness that is.
Shrill tones slide upward, downward. Around the bird’s
trill, shadows cluster. Has something appeared in this place? or is it nothing? Water trinkles between rocks. Air stirs old leaves. Voices, almost inaudible, whisper.
We are here.
A man (the n father) A woman (then mother)
A da u gh t er (t h en sis t er ) A son (and brother)