Your Juicy Moral Core
It all started with a meditation with my higher self. She told me that without a core we are all just tools for capitalism. You may have gathered that my soul and I aren’t big fans of capitalism, but unfortunately we need to use it to survive. Without a core we have nothing to give from, nothing to create from. She used not just an apple without a core to illustrate this, but also a sunflower. A sunflower is all core, all center, virtually all seed. Everything blossoms from this center. When we are centered in ourselves we can create, give, and help others because we feel fulfilled.
I started to see apples as a sort of three dimensional mandala. I realized that for me they represented a delicious and juicy path, possibly even a forbidden one. Seeking out esoteric spiritual concepts has always been a favorite quest of mine, and much of that knowledge has helped me to create a sort of sacred sensuality for myself as well. All of the BirdCore pieces came together in my mind to represent my own path toward self awareness, and how that path should be an ecstatic one.
Your soul is always encouraging you to get to know who you really are, and you are so much bigger than you think. Our journey toward self realization is like that of the bird trying to find the seeds at the center of the apple, a mighty tasty adventure!
In the fall of 2021 BirdCore 1 was born from this vision. The result was around 30 bird and apple drawings on pattern collage affixed to panel, and a book mixing the catalog of this artwork with little poems all with the same title: What Fills Me?
BirdCore 2 was started in 2022, but I didn’t release it to the public until 2025. This is a mini-collection, but while it contains the same motifs, the collages are a little bit more complex, and the message is a bit more defined. I wrote poems for each of these pieces too, though for now they remain unpublished. As I wrote these poems I was reading a book about Jung’s concept of active imagination, and his idea that all roads must lead back to the self really struck me. Jung described mandalas in particular as maps of the self that show how one can reach the center.
These days I think often of what will be required of us to maintain our personal morality in a country where the rule of law has devolved to suit the agenda of only the very few. Do you have the courage to disobey immoral laws? Diving into this work of self realization will help you deeply understand and identify with your core, and what you stand for. It has certainly helped me.
I have heard that you contain within you certain inviolable morals, a code you would not break no matter how many drugs you take! As someone who has suffered from OCD most of my life this is comforting, but I remain suspicious. I think we need to work on strengthening our moral core daily, but this needn’t feel like a chore at all. Know who you are and what you stand for via love and pleasure! Remember that your deepest depths were formed through love, and through love you shall live. Through love you shall make earth a paradise, another Garden of Eden, where the apple tree will grow to feed everyone!
BirdCore 1 and BirdCore 2 are both now available to experience and purchase!
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