โWe are of the earth, and the earth is of us. We are of the stars and the stars are of us... Stone is the first ancestor. It holds the building blocks of life. Without stone, we would not be. It carries the story of the beginning of all and holds the seed of all that follows."
Barry Brailsford, In Search of the Southern Serpent
Stone & Story: A Sacred Union of Myth, Land, and Spirit
Mythic Landscapes
By Helena B. Scott & Joseph Jaskolka
Our work is a call to remember: to return to the land, to honour the stone as the first ancestor, and to step back into sacred relationshipsโwith each other, with the earth, and with the timeless stories that shaped us all.
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Our shared passion lies in reconnecting people with the archetypes that arise from myth โ and myth, as we both understand, is not fiction, but the psychic language of the land itself; therefore, part of sacred geography (or psychogeography) or those beautiful "magical mindscapes".
Myths have no author; they emerge from place, memory, and soul, speaking to us across time from the collective unconscious โ what psychiatrist Carl Jung identified as the deep well of shared human experience.
Features my own work as a Jungian and historian working deep with public history, mythopoetics, ancient energies and cultural heritage but also the work of: ๐๐๐ซ๐ฅ ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ , ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ก ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ง, ๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐จ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง, ๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ค๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ญรฉ๐ฌ, ๐รฉ๐ฅรจ๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ; ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐๐ง ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ค ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐๐ญรฉ; ๐๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒโ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ก๐๐ญ๐ฒ๐ฉ๐๐ฅ ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ก ๐๐๐ฌ๐ค๐จ๐ฅ๐ค๐; sculptor of myth and stone.
Iโm truly delighted to welcome someone very special to May's โTreasures of Our Landscapesโ themed hangout โ not only a deeply inspiring artist whose work I admire profoundly, but also someone who holds a special place in my heart, both personally and creatively. Joseph Jaskolka, a U.S.-based sculptor whose monumental works in stone breathe life into myth and memory, joins us as my guest this month. Jaskolka Sculptures are not simply formsโthey are awakenings.
