Art by Sofía Bassi
Star Hunting (1967)
The Tear of the World (1974)
The Argonauts (1969)
The Tower of Babel (1968)
To the Encounter (1989)
Source: Occult Mexican Art
Discovered Sofía Bassi's paintings today. Aren't they fascinating and otherworldly? I feel drawn to dreams and surrealism. I've been listening to lectures by Marion Woodman at night as I crochet. She talks about how we need to find the images and metaphors that live inside our dreams because that's where meaning and healing are found.
I walked into the kitchen today and saw the afternoon sunlight streaming through the window. I thought of how my mother isn't here to see the sun. These are the moments when I touch the void. I plummet through darkness. I can watch the sun soak the walls, but my mother and father cannot.
My mother died. I watched her die. I cared for her in her last weeks. I was with her as she took her final breath. It happened. It truly happened. My parents are now both gone. The two people I loved the most in this world have ceased to exist. I will never be the same. I am angry. I am shattered. I am lost. I am alone. I am scared. I want to scream until nothing is left of me.
Everything hurts. My chest never stops aching. Even the air against my skin is unbearable.
There is a pain — so utter —
It swallows substance up —
Then covers the Abyss with Trance —
So Memory can step
Around — across — upon it —
As one within a Swoon —
Goes safely — where an open eye —
Would drop Him — Bone by Bone —
— Emily Dickinson