Charlotte Babb Portfolio
Relationships:
Generosity, Betrayal, Forgiveness
“Writing our deep stuff gives us a safe path to experience those challenges and opportunities that we probably should not try to live out in the real world.
But how much more authentic our work if we have plumbed our depths and looked, not only at our skeletons, but at the most noble parts of our shadow sides--our inner warriors and princesses, our inner mages and priest(esse)s, our inner executives and crafts workers. This work is not about destroying the ego. In fact, an intact and healthy ego is necessary to allow one to consider the desires that would take one away from the job, the family, the lifestyle, without acting on them.
How lucky we are to be writers, to
be able to develop the skill to tell these stories and live them out through
our work with our readers, and to give our readers a glimpse inside themselves
by looking deeply into our own mirrors. What we do is important work.”
Artifact: Babblings Essay
Reflection on the Black and White Gate
Angeles Arriens says that we must approach the black & white gate with a partner, so that we can heal from the projections on each other, but for my partner, I chose the Shadow, the dark goddess, those parts of myself that I have been afraid to face. They are only dark because I have turned away from them, because I have closed my eyes to them. I think of those parts as Shadow because I convince myself that I face the light, and I have put those parts behind us.
It is from the depths that Truth comes. My best writing and artwork comes from the back of my head, where my connection to my Inner Self is. The images on these slides are details of the painting linked below.
Artifact: Baubo
and the Eight Gates acrylic painting
