The World of the Trickster Forms Faces of
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The World of the Trickster
Forms & Faces of Trickster
Do You See What I’ve Become? Geode Collage
May I Haunt You? Geode Collage
God’s Eye Southern Utah
First Snow Granville, Mass.
Blue Train Rockland, Maine
The Gaze of What’s Gone Southern Utah
Goethe’s Doors Basel, Switzerland
Trickster in Autumn Granville, Mass.
Gaudi’s Scream Barcelona, Spain
Have I Been Here Too Long? Gorges de Verdun, France
Rock Spirit Pamaquid Point, Maine
What Are You Looking At? Seguret, France
But… Westfield, Mass.
Gourd with Hackles Raised Westfield, Mass.
Doorway in Cezanne’s Town Aix en Provence, France
Male Begonia in Evening Light Granville, Massachussets
Rock Dancer Page, Arizona
I’ve Seen Such Inward Complications Banyon Tree, Hawaii
Feelings of First Love Banyon Tree, Hawaii
Groping Forward Wind River, Wyoming
How Did It Happen? Wind River, Wyoming
Uncertain Phoenix Wind River, Wyoming
Agony in a Calm Green Dusk Oahu, Hawaii
Hubbard River Water Sprite Granville, Mass.
Memorial to Vanished Mastodons Valley of Fire, Nevada
Sea Serpent or Claw Icon Coast of Maine
Haunting Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sand Remembering the Spirit of Water Southern Utah
Riding a Dragon From the Air, West Texas
Rock Dancer II Southern Utah
Cathedral Spirit Barcelona, Spain
Cave Dragon Northern Arizona
The Late David Shainberg’s Shoes Truro, Mass.
Lower Kingdom Divinity Geode Collage
Kraken Rising Southern Utah
Sun God Westfield, Mass.
Tensions of Being Roots and Rock, Vancouver, BC
Being Somewhere Close to the Center Roots and Rock Collage, Vancouver, BC
Trickster Places
A Trickster Road Death Valley, Calif.
Dream Landscape Death Valley, Calif.
A Glimpse of What’s Real Northern Arizona
Imagination a Little Wild Page, Arizona
Inside of Love Page, Arizona
Come This Way Page, Arizona
Trickster Reflection Granville, Mass.
Trickster Gatherings
What Rocks Say Zion National Park
Morning Assembly Near Tuscon, Arizona
Chaos Dancers Near Lyon, France
A Comfortable Exchange Vancouver, BC
Together Granville, Mass.
Watching the Sky Stonehenge
Trickster Changes
Cradle of Light Vancouver, BC
Fractal Passing Death Valley, Calif.
A Momentary Fractal Kingdom Granville, Mass.
What Emerges in Hiding Mollala, Oregon
One Stage of Decay Benares, India
Spring Enlightenment Westfield, Mass.
Summer Enlightenment Westfield, Mass.
Autumn Enlightenment Westfield, Mass.
Clouds Provence, France
Clouds Atkins Farms Parking Lot, Amherst, Mass
Clouds Provence, France
Trickster Flying with Clouds Mall, Hadley, Mass.
Clouds Mall, Hadley, Mass.
Clouds Mall, Hadley, Mass.
Clouds Mall, Hadley, Mass.
Clouds Westfield, Mass.
Clouds Near Lyon, France
Soul Drifting Toward Death at the Close of the Day Caromb, France
Release Caromb, France
Clouds Danbury, Conn.
Who Is Trickster?
We constantly distinguish—right and wrong, sacred and profane, clean and dirty, male and female, young and old, living and dead--and in every case trickster will cross the line and confuse the distinction. . There also cases in which trickster creates a boundary, or brings to the surface a distinction previously hidden from sight. —Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World Trickster conveys that our assurances about ourselves and our realities are illusions. The trickster’s world is a place of chaos and uncertainty, and it is our world, concealing our own deep ambivalences and our desire—or at least our proclivity—to undermine the very certainties we create. —www. Nuance. Project. com
Freud knew what this force was and how it alone could wrest life out of death’s grasp, and his word, Eros, describes well the trickster’s seizure of life. Yet the joy that the trickster gives and receives in penetrating nothingness and contradicting contradiction, in shaping and reshaping man’s life without end, rises from an even deeper source than Freud knew of—tougher, gentler, far more ironic. —Robert D. Pelton, The Trickster in West Africa Trickster is Nature. (S)he is Art. (S)he is the twists, turns, the backflips of our consciousness as