Faces of Time
Rewritten in 2009
A restless teenage girl embarks on an allegorical journey and discovers that in each dream-like episode she sees the world as if through a different lens. She is in harmony with the world when external events relate to her interests, and experiences friction when the inner and outer worlds are out of synchrony. To stay "in the running" demands that she switch gears often—slow down when external events move slower and rev up when they move faster. The rub between inner and outer events running in parallel but at different speeds registers as a duration called time. The interaction with external events affects the girl's outlook, mindset and behavior.
Years later, when she looks back on her youthful ramblings, she notices that even small changes in everyday situations call for internal adjustment. Situational awareness saves her much frustration.
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Stone Talking
2008
The manuscript unravels the dynamics of a mind in action. Treating every sensation as pure energy manifestation, it reinvents a self as it might have developed through the ages, before our mental faculties or their functions were defined by terms in use today.
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Fire Island
Narrative Poem
2006
The narrative poem is an unpublished manuscript started during the author's retreat to Fire Island in the months of September in 1997 and 1998
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To burn what will succumb to flame."
In the Wake of Dreams
Narrative Poem
2001
Rewritten '08
The imagery in the narrative poem is based on personal dreams collected by the author during the span of some 65 years. Curious whether dreams had a story to tell, she grouped them by subject matter, and in the sorting noticed that images in the most intimate dreams echoed our collective memory. The story she found is of individuation, as recorded in the myths of all nations, the link suggesting that the import of dreams might be etched on a deeper, less personal level of existence.
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Memoir
2001
Born in Lithuania on an estate but raised in the spirit of social changes prominent in the beginning of the last century, the author describes the people and the surroundings that brought a child's awareness of self full circle. The memoir ends at age nine, when shattering experiences made the child realize that the core of her being will not survive without an outer shell.
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Private Heresies
Illustrated Book
2000
An artist wonders about the differences between emotion and feeling or rational and intellectual thoughts, and winds up tracing her own mental activities for the next 30 years. Treating every detectable sensation as energy-in-motion, she records the observable movements in schematic drawings, and in the mapping of these minute energy events stumbles upon an operating system of the mind. Part I describes the system envisioned, and Part II describes the shifts it undergoes when circumstances, convention, or change in perception exert an influence.
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