Delineations

What holds me in drawing lines is not just the line but the spaces that are made between the lines. Lines create the possibility of space [silence] on the page, such energy between the blank space and the lines. And where lines meet and collide, the edges of things, creates another space, another conversation. Another delineation. I think of dreaming this way, how a dream creates a storyline, a narrative, around us and we move through it, exploring the spaces and the edges. Both in...
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What holds me in drawing lines is not just the line but the spaces that are made between the lines. Lines create the possibility of space [silence] on the page, such energy between the blank space and the lines. And where lines meet and collide, the edges of things, creates another space, another conversation. Another delineation. I think of dreaming this way, how a dream creates a storyline, a narrative, around us and we move through it, exploring the spaces and the edges. Both in the narrative and in ourselves. The edges between waking and dreaming, between dreaming sleep and quiet sleep, between what we know and what we do not know, between what we believe and what is true. All of it woven.

Sue Scavo is a writer, artist and Embodied Dreamwork Practitioner and Teacher. She has taught about and led Dreaming and Dreaming/Creativity workshops all around the world for the past 20 years at venues such as Esalen Institute, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Breitenbush Retreat Center, Hollyhock Retreat Center and Rowe Center. She is the co-Founder of Students of the Dream and Limina, a school.

Her poetry has appeared in journals such Poet Lore, Aster(ix) Journal, Street Light Press, Spillway, Blue Heron Review and in What Have You Lost, an anthology edited by Naomi Shihab Nye and Jane's Stories, an anthology of women writers. She began a project of posting a small drawing inspired by her dream every day on her Instagram page in 2017 with the intention of doing one year. She has not missed a day since. You can find her at:
www.suescavo.com and https://www.instagram.com/smscavo/

Sue is the co-founder of Students of the Dream and Limina, A School for Dreams and Consciousness. She is also the co-founder of deluge, an online literary and arts journal devoted to dream or dream-like inspired work. www.studentsofthedream.com