The World of the Trickster Forms Faces of

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