NATURE CODE
REMEMBERING OUR
CONNECTEDNESS
THE LIBRARY OF
VISUAL HEALING BOOKS
VISION BOOK
FOURTEEN
PART ONE
Top photo: Fungus at the bottom of a glass. Next image: Visual Medicine™ painting - Suzette Clough
NATURE CODE
Our brains are so attuned to the deep structures of the physical world that we can’t even begin to grasp these patterns...
Frank Wilczek - Nobel Laureate, Quantum Cosmologist, Neuroscientist
Visual language is our first language - our Mother Tongue. It is the pattern language we dream in, the language of Earth, of the material world, of all living systems.
It lives in the body. It binds us imaginally and materially into luminous pattern-kinship with Earth and Cosmos.
From the first microscopes that opened the interior pattern-world of the cell, to the stethoscope that made audible the rhythm of a beating heart, to the Overview Effect described by astronauts seeing our blue planet from space, we recognise ourselves inside these structures. We remember our own woven-in belonging.
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.
Pattern is not only visual - it is acoustic, rhythmic, sensory, vibrational, tactile, circadian, murmurating. We recognise it through our whole body not just our eyes.
Patterns carry the actual living architecture of the world -communications from the same creative intelligence that moves through Earth and through us.
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Wanjina - Creation Spirits - Kakadu National Park
The Library is a way of preserving and collating these patterns on the page - so that when we gaze, an alchemical coherence might begin to work in us - helping us to re-member the vast interconnected indigeneity of our species origins and our place in the world.
Remembering our originating language is one of our most necessary collective tasks at this time - it becomes a map and guidance system in a world that thinks of wealth as what it can commodify and extract from.
We bring the world into becoming with our energy and the quality of our attention. This is radical healing intimacy with the soul of the world.
Thank you for being here.
With love and all the blessings of Creation.
Suzette Clough ©
All the images in Nature Code are paintings that I have created - unless stated.
Inanna is called mother even when she does not bear children because she is the structuring force that holds creation, sovereignty, and ecological cycles together.
Gabriela Gutierrez
My mother tongue is stone, rock, sand grain, crevice, crevasse, cleft. It is the same language our ancestors scratched with, blew onto, brushed and sounded, tracing the cave walls with the tips of their exquisitely sensitive fingers to find the slight textural shifts that would imply the movement of bison and auroch or the pregnant belly of deer...
Above handprints inside cave Kakadu National Park - WA - 60,000 years ago - created by the oldest gathering of human ancestors - Mowanjum First Nation Aboriginal peoples.
Fungi are the original angels. Angel in its oldest root of the word: messenger from the Hebrew mal'akh and Old English aerendgast. Root messengers. Weavers. Communicators. They sew soil to plants, trees to trees. They hold ecosystems together like conversations, making sure each questioning chemical threads into its vegetal receptor. Like angels are said to courier messages from a higher realm, fungi connect us into messages from an even older pre-human paradise: the mythic underworld.
Sophie Strand - from: The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine.
Patterns hold the DNA of the Earth, the generative blueprint of creation itself. Patterns are the thread connecting us to everything - everything to us. We are all part cloud, part star, part leaf, part animal, part fungi, part living soil...
Images below in sequence: Top image my painting - Below it a photograph of a pattern in nature.
1. Imprint #25 2. Photo: tree bark 3. Groundswell (painting) 4. photographer unknown: Fortescue River NT Australia 5. Painting 6. photo: Cotinus leaf 7. Imprint #45 8. photo Great Barrier Reef (photographer unknown)
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