I’m an image-maker,
an image-concocter, an image-blender. For me, the Image is Queen.
Psychologist James Hillman calls the image the “via regia” to the
soul—the royal road of soul-making. I’m fascinated by how images
resonate and how we “fine tune” them in our understanding. Put a sword
in the hand of a woman in a red dress, for instance, and that sword
resonates much differently than in the hand of a guy wearing a suit of
armor. My responsibility to the image, indeed my great pleasure and
privilege, is to be open to other ways of knowing and understanding,
while still being grounded in my particular place, in my specific time: a
midwestern woman at mid-life in the middle of a continent.