ANCESTOR
STORIES
THE LIBRARY OF
VISUAL HEALING BOOKS
VOLUME ONE
Welcome to THE LIBRARY OF VISUAL HEALING BOOKS. These vision books are a contemporary version of illuminated manuscripts - immersive and written in the language of images. They are created in the alchemical lineage of artists as healers and storytellers of the Soul.
I hope The Library can become a sanctuary that allows you to dive deeper into the Original visual energy patterns that underpin the body of Earth which can hold us steady in these times of immense upheaval and dismantling.
Patterns weave the worlds together. Every part of the known and unknown multiverse is created through the language of pattern. It is impossible to conceive of ourselves or matter outside the language of pattern.
Patterns as a language system contain our Origin Stories. When we re-member these patterns hidden in the body of the world we remember the intact origins of the soul of our species.
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We change the world with our energy and the quality of our attention.
All the blessings of Creation.
Suzette Clough â“’
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ANCESTOR STORIES
Painting is a way of knowing our Original Ancestors
The paintings for ANCESTOR STORIES emerged like this: working on the floor of my studio in London I was preparing the surface of five giant watercolour sheets. Swilling graphite powder mixed with medium - then spraying black/black ink onto the giant pages when a huge gust of energy blew onto the surface of the paper chasing the ink into cascading patterns.
The Pattern Creation Ancestors were vibrantly communicating, alive swathes of cellular interiority, filial threads of vibrant connectivity for as long as it took for me to take photos. I came back from a quick coffee break only to find they had literally flown off the edges of the paper.
They had breathed a fleeting breath and left. I was awed. Sooo much life. I felt a strange mourning for the loss of their primal cellular voices.
Below photo: Close up of a broken Oak branch exposing the lymph system hidden deep within the bark.
ANCESTOR STORIES
Before Human was born, we inhabited the Cosmos as energy patterns evolving through vastness of stars birthed into the body of the world. We are all part of the unfolding long, love story of Anima Mundi.
My practice as an artist is a way of calling in and receiving these stories. The paintings are revealed as co-creational flow-throughs of energy from the World Soul to our soul. Each image, a painted fractal from The Pattern Creation Ancestors, our first Kin - who like cosmic radio waves from the far past are still transmitting their stories through the materiality of paint flowing freely onto paper. Once those invisible Ancestor voices said to me: “You hear us through your hands..."
Their stories, their language, their energetic imprints tremble at the edge of our collective un-remembering. Painting is my way of catching these threads that have been flung out as invisible wave and particle patterns reweaving the luminous bonds holding the worlds together.
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At the world's beginning
there was a Mother.
All beginnings partake
of that Mother's energy.
To know this world,
first know the Mother.
Then, go forth and learn
to know the world.
Then go back to Her. Go back
and hold fast to Her.
Hold fast to the Mother, and
you will never be in danger.
Tao Te Ching ~ The Book of Changes ~ Ursula Le Guin
Above photos from the floor of my studio - London - February, 2024.
Below left to right: gifts from our Ancestors: top left: paintings from the Chauvet Caves - France created in the Aurignacian period, approximately 30,000–32,000 years old. Top right: A 4,700 year old ball of yarn found near Lake Bienne, Switzerland. Bottom centre: 4,000 year old achingly slow growing Bristle Cone Pine - Utah, USA.
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