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Salmon were meant to swim upstream to spawn in free flowing wild rivers. We have put dams, sometimes many dams in their rivers. This work is about undamming the river flowing through you.

The salmon metaphor runs deep for me.  I see all humans as salmon, who in order to deliver their gifts to the world must leave their comfortable home rivers where they spend their childhood and venture out into the vast sea in order to mature and become an adult (at each stage of developement, most don’t make it).  Until some mysterious moment when they are called back to their home river to offer themselves in death and feed the ecosystem which helped to create their life.  

I see that we have a river flowing through us, and the salmon is our soul.  The dams of our psyches must come down, allowing the free flowing wild river to flow again.  When this happens to a sufficient degree, the salmon/soul is allowed to do what it knows how to do.  We just have to create the proper environment for this to happen.  

(This image was taken at a fish hatchery, where salmon are raised artificially in plastic containers and concrete pools.  They are still hardwired to return home at all costs, nonetheless.  Their wild spirit remarkably strong despite being raised in domesticated environments.  The metaphor and lessons from the salmon just keeps going.  I believe they are trying to teach us something.)

imagine a human in the center of this toroidal field - the wild energy flowing up to sky, and down to earth,  Flowing out of the human and into earth, and back up to human.  

Without making it too complex, the energy simply flows both ways.  From earth to me, and me to earth.  

Distortions or blocks anywhere in this process impact the flow in all directions.  Energy flowing freely and wildly impacts both earth and human.  This work is about restoring the energetic field flowing between humans and the earth.

A framework for wholeness, is the need to balance opposite energies, typically this is thought of as masculine and feminine energies.  A whole human has mature masculine and mature feminine energies alive and active inside of them.  This image is of Mt. Ngauruhoe, a volcano in New Zealand, which also happens to be Mt. Doom in Lord of the Rings.  

I see this as a very sacred site in the world, and one of the most incredible illustrations of masculine/feminine energies I have ever seen.