2. Numina:
"An indwelling intelligence
or power felt in a particular
place, or in the whole
world......
The origins of the Roman
gods may be the sense of
numinous presences
underlying all the processes
of the natural world."
3. Making a mask can be a way
to find a face for what is
sensed, elemental, invisible,
and sacred…..
6. Wearing a Sacred Mask is invocation,
and requires psychic preparation.
Care is taken to devoke as well.
7. "When you create within a
sacred paradigm you find you
are communicating with what
is within you - but also has a
greater source somewhere else.
You collaborate with something
timeless.”
Elizabeth Fuller, Actress, Playright
THE INDEPENDENT EYE
8. Each time a mask is worn by a new person a new dance is
discovered…..by a community, a new story is told.
9. “Genus Loci” – “Spirit of Place”: What Faces do they wear?
What might they say?
32. With special thanks to Ann Waters, Mana
Youngbear, and the Community of Willits
for stills from “The Awakening”
and to J.J. Idarius for the use of her
photographs.
33. All masks are by Lauren Raine MFA.
www.laurenraine.com
All images and photos are copyright Lauren Raine and J.J. Idarius
(2014)