Dec. 16, 2012 / Jan. 6, 2013 – The photos below were taken during Deborah Stutsman’s two-afternoon experiential seminar, “Evoking the Transcendent Function: Bridging Darkness to Light at Winter Solstice.” Providing an abundance of materials, both natural and human-made, Deborah introduced a two-part sandtray project “bracketing” the Solstice and the holiday period, the first of which explored the ideas and images of darkness, the necessary death of the old, gestation, being in the unknowing and the possibility of change. The second tray, created three weeks later, was used to work on movement into what may be borning, into greater light, regeneration, seeing what may have been latent in the first tray. The “bridging” or transcendent function was witnessed in many ways. It was a remarkable experience for all, even synchronistic in one amazing instance. Thanks, Debby!
Deborah Stutsman added: “The idea was to go from the dark, pre-Solstice, Advent, mortificatio time to a transition into the growing light, Epiphany, and the new year. The whole process potentially included many alchemical stages, nigredo, albedo, rubedo, pluscalcinatio, solutio, coagulatio, sublimatio, mortificatio, separatio and coniunctio.”
