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Liminal Places
These pieces reflect my writing about place and memory. I have been teaching at the same campus for twenty years. I arrived at sunrise one morning with the crows and found myself later talking to my students about the reciprocal relationship that develops with a place that is tended to, returning again and again. After a time the place begins to remember and tend to you.

There is a strong bond between place, memory and the artist. The cave painters of 30,000 years ago give us a way to remember the past that is available to us only through them. There was no distinction between the artist (the one whos sees and paints) and the shaman (the one who cares for, heals). I walked into the classroom feeling this presence.

The poem that I wrote that is the text for the paintings is:
Found Morning

This morning I returned
to the same place.
The crow is hopping and croaking.
The clouds in the east are colored
with the pink newness
of the day.
Now I see that this place
remembers me,
is tending to me.
Blind for so long
my eyes are opened
in tears and sunrise.
The crow calls in fours
Yes yes yes yes
Here here here here.

LIMINAL PLACES SERIES
In Praise of Place

In the collection of the artist


Returning to the Same Place

In the collection of the artist


Liminal Door

In the collection of the artist


MOON AND MEMORY SERIES
Moon and Memory I

In the collection of the artist


Moon and Memory II

In the collection of the artist


Moon and Memory III

In the collection of the artist


Wash My Eyes

In the collection of the Maclaren Markowitz Museum


Door Inside Stone

In the collection of the Denver Center for Performing Arts









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All images © Laurie Doctor 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002