Reverie: Drawing the Undrawn
Reverie: drawing the undrawn
Reflections on the creative impulse and collage-making process of a Group Analyst in turbulent times: Paper by Eve-Marie Kimmerling (25th August 2023)
Glossary of Irish words and phrases (Gluais focail agus frasaí Gaeilge)
Ag ardú is ag titim
Rising and falling
Alltar
The other realm, the netherworld. The equal and opposite of Ceantar
Aisling
A vision or dream or a vision poem (Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman from the Otherworld.)
Cáithnín
A speck of dust, a husk of corn, a snowflake, a subatomic particle and a miniscule smidge of butter, or anything tiny that gets into the eye and irritates it. It also means the goosebumps you feel in moments when you contemplate how everything is interrelated and how tiny we are in relation to the whole, like that feeling when you realise, or, maybe, remember, that we are all one – all unified. (Magan: 2020)
Caithnín beag i bhfolús mór
A small speck in a big void
Ceantar
Region or locality
Cogadh na gCarad
A war between friends
Fite fuaite
Firmly interwoven, inextricably mixed up. Tá siad fiite fuaite ann: They are firmly interwoven there/
Folús
Chasm; vacuum; void. I bhfolús: in a void
Gortaimís
We hurt
Idir gceantar is alltar
Between this world and the other
Spailp
Surprise kiss, spark - of insight, the like of which occasionally arises when folk memories that linger in the deepest recesses of our minds are triggered. (Magan: 2020)
Táimid gortaithe
We are hurt