19/20 September 2007

...last night my world shifted slightly...

My work "Speak to Me My Shadow" is the first work in the last series of work for Indigo Boy I entitled "The Red Series". All the works in this series are small and mostly red, and are inspired by a particular incident in my life at this moment in time. This is my way of dealing with my feelings, too personal to discuss.

Strangely enough I am also very near to the end of Iron John, my major inspiration for Indigo Boy, by Robert Bly. This is what he wrote at this point:

" Our work then as men and women is not only to free ourselves from family cages and collective mind sets, but to release transcendent beings from imprisonment and trance."

...I have to set myself free from imprisonment and trance...

Indigo Boy, 19/20 September, Cape Town

Poem inspired by this work:

Indigo Aspirations

Some of us were saved
But most of us drowned
While reaching for high stakes
As they trampled us down
Trodden beneath the surface
By their ambitions and hidden desires

Speak to me my shadow
Hidden within my true self
Reveal my buried dreams
Defeated by living nightmares
Trying to mask my true nature
Behind a breathing facade

by Sisinyana Manong, uploaded 07 February 2008.

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