Project Samples
New Archetype : a creative experiment in co-sourcing a new archetype - New York City, May 2024
An experiment designed to co-source, “creatively catch” and sense-make one of the new archetypal blueprints that are coming in through the intersubjective field right now …: A small soulteam of high capacity “professional” intersubjective practitioners meets twelve times, zoom-only, from Feb - May, 2024. Our mission is to co-source a new archetype - imagined as a series of twenty four emergent images (think 24 jigsaw pieces or the 24 frames of celluloid that generate one second of moving film). A second team of new breed philosophers feeds the creative process by deep decoding and sense-making these twenty four images across. I will scribe/paint the twenty four images and they will be displayed in a gallery in NYC in May 2024, along with a record of the sourcing and sense-making process. The images are also turned into sets of meta-meme cards (think decks of playing cards or tarot cards). Tickets to the opening even (a zoom event) are avaliable here on Patreon.
Gathered - Tuscany, Italy, Sept 2024
Gathered is a gathering of initiators who have held large complex events and projects related to emergence. We will come together to compare notes - What have we all been learning over these last few dynamic, liminal years? What do we sense comes next? Can we begin to distill some of the essential findings and foundational principles. We will harvest artifacts (words and imgaes) for distribution to the field as a whole, for general knowledge share and learning.
Alpha/Omega - Online, April 2024
Alpha/Omega is a “dojo” for the genders to come together consciously in order to practice the intersubjective dialgoe practice known as Collective Presencing (as outlined in the book Collective Presencing by Ria Baeck).
A/O is a “titrated” container, designed for investigating the potent creative evolutionary possibilities that we believe can unfold when yin & yang (masculine & feminine; shiva and shakti) energies “dance well” together in this particular dialogue practice. Our intention is to co-sense and creatively co-presence what is emerging from the dynamism generated betweem the alpha and omega polarities.
Participation Mystique:
Group Intersubjective
Art-Making - Berlin July 2022
Participation Mystique - a project birthed by sourcekeeper Cheryl Hsu — which I had the privilege of co-hosting for her - assembled twelve artists of all creative disciplines in a house for almost two weeks. Our mission was to live together, hold intersubjective space together, develop emergent creative ritual together, and ultimately create art together. Or more accurately to create art from what we mysteriously termed the artist in the middle.
It was not just a bold experiment in collective creativity from a place of elevated group consciousness, but also a creative take on capital. We “pre-sold” a series of the artworks created at the gathering to a set of hand selected conscious investors. Our investors were interested not just in the art, but in the experiment as a whole, and what could be learned about these prototypes in collective co-creation.
New Seeds For Tara:
Bridging Between
The Metamodern and
Indigenous Tribes - São Paulo, Brazil, January 2023
New Seeds For Tara was a project birthed by sourcekeeper and intimacy researcher Amanda Zamparo. I served as her main spaceholder.
Our mission was to live together, hold Eros-infused intersubjective space together, and re-imagine our relationship to Planet Earth itself — not so much as the mother, but as the lover.
We also collaborated with the Shanenawa tribe of The Amazon and also had a young female leader/medicine woman representative from that tribe as a participant in the gathering.
To capitalize the project we also created five revenue streams flowing into the gathering fund. One example - we designed a ritual to create a series of so-called soul cloaks — an art recording of the participant gathering journey onto sheets of wearable raw local silk. These cloaks would serve as independent art pieces to be sold after the gathering, all profits going to the gathering fund (this project and the broader economic model for the gathering is described here).