Masks by Lauren Raine MFA, and choreography from "The Awakening" by Ann Waters, giving voice to the "Numina", Spirits of Place.

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…..

4. Creating Story and Ritual
is giving them a voice

5. In traditional cultures
masks are power objects,
tools for the Gods to be
embodied.
To bless, speak, even
prophecy.

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?

10. “The Pollinators”
Transformation

11. Corn Mother
Sustainer of the Americas

12. WATER

13. THE GREEN MAN

14. VOLCANO
GiViNG birth tO New LANds

15. Flowering –
“Flora”

16. The Weaver

17. ICE

18. “Our Lady of the Waters”
The Desert Spring

20. “Dawn”

22. Holy Wells
The Lady
of Avalon

23. RAINBOW
For The Global Tribe

24. Forest

25. The TRICKSTER
Chaos and Order

26. Drought

28. Storm

29. Spider Woman
Weaver of the Web of Interdependency

31. MOTHER EARTH

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)