For the project titled C is for Ocean, the student will, to the best of their ability, cultivate a meaningful relationship with a local First Nation (otherwise known as a “tribe”) and attempt to access an elevated level of consciousness as experienced by indigenous wisemen, or what many in Western society have come to refer to as “shamans.” The student will immerse himself in this “otherworld” to both understand and explain the essence of this state of consciousness. As many would describe this place as the world from which metaphor derives, it follows that only a metaphor can aptly describe the nature of this experience. In essence, the student will dive in to the sea of consciousness and, in the words of Robert Bringhurst, “come back speaking poetry.”

ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes

• C- week one log January 23, 2013 doodkjddidododododo week wun is dun

Bachelardian Reverie

• C- reverie 4, week 8 March 3, 2013 Prompt:  p 189   “If there are ‘gorges’ (French = ‘throats’) in the mountains, isn’t it because the wind, long ago, spoke there?” In Bachelard’s understanding of poetry, a “light delirium ...
• C- Reverie 3, week 7 March 3, 2013 Prompt:  pp 139, 141  Create your own reverie in response to Bachelard’s reverie:  “When I read this line by Edmond Vandercammen: ‘My childhood goes back to that wheaten bread,’ an ...
• C- Reverie #2 March 3, 2013 Prompt:  pp 88, 93  Create your own reverie in response to Bachelard’s reverie:  “Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming ...
• C- First Reverie March 3, 2013 Prompt: pp 38-39, 47  Create your own reverie on the engendering of words in response to Bachelard’s reverie:  “Look out for the flamboires, little girl! Look out for the flambettes, ...

Poetry

• Writing (my first long poem, in some ways also my ACTUAL first language poem) Writing Writing, writing I know not showing only what I’ve bought Make me fancy, make me fine, words only mask what we forgot.   Tell me what the beauty sees– but restricted   Never-ending story told, the Passion only felt How do ...
• my first language poem A faded day in my head, again   I fade.   can’t know who How i got to here when i was Myself.   Heart.   Centre.   No think. You are what you DO –you are how to lose   For now.   All I need is confidence or My heart ...
• Randomly Stabbed in the back of the thigh I wonder why she does not call to me instead All these ghosts in sailboats are the reason I have cried. To me, she says “I’m almost ...
• C- this is a song, not a poem… …and it’s the BEST THING I’VE EVER WRITTEN. Welcome to the Forest Greenman says hello Greenman says hello   See you through the window sitting at the table Words are wandering about but nothing’s being said   I ...
• C- Forest poem four Earth Kissing   Growing   Making love   this is Earth, a flying dove   Greening trees everywhere a violet sunset is her hair   this is life solid rock holding me   soothing me   she loves and i love her.
• C- Forest Poem three Fire Watch even water cannot wash the things that bring pollution here   Soft no more, it must be cleansed all the Forest runs with fear   Lost the mother deer and fawn a light this bright won’t come till dawn   We ...
• C- Forest Poem two Water Hopefully you’ll come to me you’re running free weave in and out, you’re nurturing and coming back around to feed yourself again   The water here is crystal clear it is not sharp, is not a ...
• C- Forest Poem one Air “Drop your mind,” says the wind let it whisper, let it in never changing never there in your hand but the air is everywhere where you stand 40,000 pounds of voices pushing down on your shoulders invisible voices speaking solemnly in whispers of ...

Poetry Observed

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Term Paper Abstract

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Field Study Proposal 

In these next four weeks I will be immersing myself within various forms of movement to evoke poetry. I will continue to go to the Dance Co-Op on campus as well as in downtown Olympia as well as a structured modern dance class once a week. On any off day I plan on making my way to the rock wall or swimming pool to position my body in a form of weightlessness. I plan on having a ten to hour and a half long morning yoga session in my home space all the while taking acro-yoga classes at Breathe yoga studio to become more familiar with my own body, its movements, and those movements relating to another human being. At the end of this field study I hope to become completely familiar with my own body and have a multi-media compilation of the art that was evoked by my own movement.

ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes

• M – Week 8 Log March 3, 2013 February 25th 1 hour – morning yoga 3 hours – reading 1.5 hour – preforming exercises in two books 2.5 hours – writing – poetry 2 hour – organizing term paper February 26th 30 minutes – morning yoga 3 ...
• M – Week 7 Log February 27, 2013 February 18th 1 hour – morning yoga 3 hours – reading 1 hour – preforming exercises in two books 4 hours – entangled movement with another February 19th 1 hour – morning yoga 4 hours – reading 30 minutes – preforming ...
• M – Week 6 Log February 19, 2013 February 11th (rest day) 2 hours – reading 2.5 hours – preforming exercises in two books – writing 1.5 hours – stretching –  self-massaging February 12th 1 hour – morning yoga 3 hours – forest walk ...
• M – Week 5 Log February 19, 2013 February 1st 1 hour – morning yoga 3 hours – reading 3 hour – mindful forest walking 2.5 hours – preforming exercises in two of my books – writing February 2nd 30 minutes – morning yoga 1.5 ...

Bachelardian Reverie

• M – Reverie #4 Week 8 February 28, 2013 Gabrielle Gribbin Bachelardian Reverie #4 Winter qtr. wk. 8 Work count:100 “Listening to the trees of the night prepare their tempests, the poet will say: ‘The forest shivers under the caresses of the cristal-fingered ...
• M – Reverie #3 Week 7 February 28, 2013 Gabrielle Gribbin Winter qtr, wk. 7 Word count:100 Reverie Prompt:  pp 139, 141  Create your own reverie in response to Bachelard’s reverie:  “When I read this line by Edmond Vandercammen: ‘My childhood goes ...
• M – Reverie #2 Week 6 February 28, 2013 Gabrielle Gribbin Bachelardian Reverie #2 Winter qtr. wk.6 Word count:100 “Reverie Prompt:  pp 88, 93  Create your own reverie in response to Bachelard’s reverie:  “Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken ...
• M – Reverie #1 Week 5 February 28, 2013 Gabrielle Gribbin Bachelardian Reverie #1 Winter qt. wk.5 Word count:100 “Reverie Prompt:  pp 38-39, 47  Create your own reverie on the engendering of words in response to Bachelard’s reverie:  “Look out for the flamboires, little girl! ...

Poetry

• M – Week 5 Poem Their voices slowly fade, she stands there mind racing until she is completely alone. She waits to breathe easily again. Eyes closed, hesitant to open, arms, turn to hands, then, fingers intertwining overhead, torso swaying, her ...
• M – Week 6 (Fed by Touch) Nourished by movement, my body is fed by touch a delectable treat that leaves my physique to salivate in the anticipation of it all. I lay supine as you move each tensile ...
• M – Week 7 Poem (My Body in the State of this World) The water inside of me creates a riptide, a vortex of brewing. A dangerous seething weapon. The liquid that I am  wills my bones to rise from deep within their marrow. I have no absence of ...
• M – Week 8 Poem (Hinges) I stand vertical holding in the air I’ve just inhaled, here I wait for the exhalation that your touch will bring as fingertips brush the backs of my heels. Slowly out of the warmth of ...

Poetry Observed

Winter Term Paper Abstract

During this four week field study I became engaged in numerous activities dedicated to movement.  From acrobatic yoga, to rock climbing, to ecstatic dance, I implied my found knowledge about the bodies range of motion and structure to fully understand how we move.

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