“Judeβs work is a portal to other worlds where ancient myths and art feed the longings of the soul”
Hi, Iβm Jude, living on the West coast of Scotland on the banks of the River Clyde, near Loch Lomond. Iβm an artist and writer with a background in ο»ΏHuman Ecology, exploring my connection to the land through art, story and ritual.
Radical doll maker As a doll maker I view this art as practice that stretches back to the first dolls fashioned from bones and stone β such as the Woman of Willendorf. I use dolls as a way of connecting to ancestral figures and the wisdom they represent. As a painter her work is born between the worlds and she creates ancestral figures whose images incorporate local soils.
I paint images of the Ancestral Mothers- images which begin through experiences between the worlds. This artistic process provides a symbiotic connection combining visions from the otherworld and local soils from this world.
Cultural Activist Inspired by the ancient practice of keening, I explore how we can use this ritual in a modern setting can help to honor the grief we feel for all that is happening in the world. In using keening in this cathartic way with gestures of ritual can inspire creative ways of acts of resistance, which reject the βbusiness as usualβ narrative and inspire working towards a restorative culture - without knowing the eventual outcome of our future.
I am currently writing my first book on the Ancestral Mothers.
An Introduction to Keening
Self study - go at your own pace
The history of keening
Exploring the role of the Bean Chaointe, the Keening Woman
Addressing the erasure of keening
A modern interpretation of keening
BONUS: Creating a personal keening ritual for your own intention
Art
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A Daughter of the Cailleach
Sisterhood of the Antlers
Rituals of the Keening Women
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