SOLARIUM OF HEART TALK

I watch the prophesized shipwreck
In the onyx of my ring

Curio seekers scour the earth for her
For the vanishing language
Of untroubled hours

I resurrect the lady leaning against sea and sky
Trapped holy wings in being too human

I find her shoulder sewn
Attached to the swell of wave
Curling back
To the polished bone

This day you find out who you are
In our solarium of heart talk
I pick up ghost pieces of her shine
White foam of her mouth crashes
Along my shore where she’ll always reside

A reckless angel who thinks
“I had my wings folded in”
“Forgot who I was”

Gather these connections
Grow to listen like a plant in the rain
Place flowers in each other
Filling the forest bottom
Of your troubled hearts

Groom the aching painted flower
To be more than arguments with God

Crows in dying light
Where is the wilder influence

Burrow down next to me and listen
Leaves blow inside this perishing body
The elder is lodged in the heart

Wisdoms demand to hold to a child like dust
Knowing the fires magnetism until ash

Wait like a garden of wind
Bring yourself anything to grow
Whatever awakes the sleeping Goddess

My songs to you
Will scatter like ponies in the rain
One will stop by the high leak
Embodied in loves water

For where we drink
Holy fish fly
From where we were
Once without meaning
We feel the rise
Bones splitting into feathers
Amends to the fodder of paradise.

Council Meeting - Wisdom Stories

BOOK OF MIRRORS

I am reading light and shadow from the book of mirrors

In the valley of the wolf two deer hearts bound out
Of the darkness of the dream world
Grace opening upward over the fallen branches
The dead that did not reach their stride
Sleeping Goddess fetal in their veins
Unseasoned with the salt of the hearts blood

The season will come again
When the dead will rise from the compost
Antlers growing to the stars
Mirrors of what we are
Shadows but the turf
From what we become

Feng Shui, Shamanic Journeys, Teaching

Feng Shui Consultations for homes, land and businesses

Shamanic Journeys for healing and greater self-awareness

Wisdom Teachings include shamanic, feng shui, creative/co-creative views and energy transmissions.

Art Exhibitions

Brian is available for all of these services.
cell 978-290-o572
brian@thepaintedstory.com

Theater of the Painted Story

I have been before words
Facing one another
I have seen their meanings
Caught in the middle
Without beginning or end

I have been between words
Hoping life would fill the blank page
Hoping they would go away
Or fall out of order

In their service
Over their riff frontier
In their house of mind tissue
In windows hoping to break free
Of reflection

I attached worlds in their fierce making
And now retreat in words as simple souls
And let them free inside me

A book of wind
Poems of empty space
It takes a whole tribe to feel them
To fulfill who they are

I leave behind these poem shells
Sculptured layers from the sea
I pick them up again
At the shores edge
You can hear the vibration
In the ear of this one
Rearing in the star net

I keep casting in the waves
Haiku mind bee wax heart
Ice slowly melting
Cold fictions of the soul

I walk on the long thin ear of the sea
Where the beginning of vast moving mystery
Is the light greeting clouds
With the theater of my painted stories
With my eagle head of flame
And its memory of forged light
Spirals of my nomadic life
Sing in my palm like a giant
Keep growing in the waves
My names, my many names
I cleanse through the body
Carving my mast
In the terrarium
Of my ancestors

All worlds inside me
My paint blood miracles
And honey jar
For the weight of things
I perch in the fork of birch
Shiver silver branches
Alters space and object with thought

Leave for the unknown shore
Where angels with mirror wings
Rotate galaxies on the sea
Inside me

Womb of scared water
I listen hard for plantings
Surging gestations
Little wings at my door
Purifying rhythm of the old crows
Holding the moon in prayer
In the monastery sea light
I do the feather dance wonder

My space angels know me
As the holy one
With power bundle of antler and stone
Falling out of this world
Into another
This stranger’s strange story
Is our own
Story we can’t see inside us

You might find these words
When I am dead
I am never dead as most
Expressionless missing parts of me go through
My frozen mouth and busy thoughts

Spring snake
With twig I make
The tongue come out
Of the drifting stars

Shed news of our deeds
Tell us what we need
Bearing the earth’s crossroads
Into consciousness
On the brink of god
Cicadas in one song
Rain when you ride
In one drop of them all

Reach, touch, express
Acceleration of heart
Maps blaze in the tea belly
Traffic of stars inside
Glittering pieces of the world
In tender exaltation
Land flow through me
Beyond the hedge world
Rip ride the wind
Stretch my presence
Into blossom

Invisible branch on the window
Moving child to a new world
Remnants of an awkward beauty
Rustle inside us my friend
Labor of a head grown wing
To the nectar of heart

To be more than this
Hopeful awaiting god
And reverse this sentence
For greater wonder than this
Yes, yes
In the electric current
To keep me wanting more

Passage in your floral dress
Dance moves
Of fire and fog
Wind in each leaf
One tree at a time
Single address
Contained in it all

All we know is enough
For where we’re going
You dream you
And learn where you’re meant to

A rodeo of zeros
It is everything
It is nothing
Stringed to vibration
Many selves
In many worlds
My lessons thunder
Thousands of clear visions
I am home far away
Where the entrance keeps going
To be an entrance
Body veins sparkle
Near the vanished state
All edges of life leap
When you are about to be free in life
Stars pass
As floating ships of prophecy.

New Studio at 300 Main Street (downtown route 1a,) Wenham, MA. Across from the Black Cow, look for the clock tower, upstairs. By chance or appointment. Cell 978-290-0572

Tribal Connection

Deep appreciation for Kris Farquhar giving me this opportunity to collaborate with her at EMF Environmental Music Films. Kris's mastery of voice and music/sound communes in primacy of sound. The visceral experience of this conscious heart-felt sound shifts awareness into great depths. Her long time work with this spiritual gift energeticaly infuses our soul, bringing moving experience and tears to those I have shared her work with. Many thanks & blessings

Classes/Workshops & Art Showings

2012/2013 WHERE YOU CAN SEE BRIAN'S ART OR ATTEND A CLASS/WORKSHOP
www.thepaintedstory.com

Classes---------------------------------------------------------------------------

GREENFIELD COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Greenfield, MA
April 18th 2012

Guest Speaker for the course Gender and the Environment. The Divine Feminine/Indigenous Peoples.

Art Showings 2012-------------------------------------------------------------------

See TRIBAL CONNECTION on youtube
EMF Environmental Music Films with Kris Farquhar
Video of Brian's paintings


READING PUBLIC MUSEUM
Reading, PA
June 2nd,
Assisting artsist friend Jiawei Gong www.jiaweigong.com
with Performance/Video Installation
Sweet Salavation
Traditional Chinese Ritual
http://www.readingpublicmuseum.org/


JUSTKIM

615a Congress Street
Portland, ME
ph 978-457-4071
See Justkim Accessories on facebook


RIVERWALK BEAD SHOP & GALLERY Jan - Sept

Amesbury, MA
http://www.riverwalkbeads.com/


INKWELL BODY ART STUDIO Jan - Sept

Amesbury, MA
http://www.inkwell-tattoo.com/

2013____________________________________________________________

ART HEALER Blog Talk Radio Interview, Feb 26th

HOWLING WOLF TAQUERIA (March 1st - Apr 11th 
76 Lafayette St.
Salem, MA
www.feedyourwolf.com


TRUE NORTH GALLERY (Apr 13th - May 18th)
25 Woodbury Street
South Hamilton, MA
www.truenorthgallery.net

Studio visits by chance or appointment.
3oo Main St.
Wenham, MA
# 978-290-0572

Through the Veil of Perception

2011 classes/art shows/events

2011 Classes
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April 3rd
Shamanic Art Talk
Ink Well Body Art Studio
Amesbury, MA

April 10th
Shamanic Art Talk
Howling Wolf Taqueria
Salem, MA

July 8th
Talking Stick Circle
Lotus Center for the Healing Arts
Newburyport, MA

Aug 6th, 2pm-4pm
Transformation for the New Earth - CANCELLED
Teaching & Shamanic Drumming
KRI http://www.thecenternh.com/
Greenland, NH

Aug 20th
Bee Hive Collective
Awakening the Spirit of the Bee
www.facebook.com/thebeehivecollective
I will be in Ceremony with the Bee Hive Collective, along with my bee art at:
Follow The Honey
Cambridge, Ma
http://www.followthehoney.com/

August 25th, 1pm -2:30pm
Feng Shui Class
Energy of Person, Place and Thing.
Open to the general public.
Keller Williams Realty,
100 Cummings Center
Beverly, MA

August 27th, 7-9pm Art Reception
Showing through September
Lotus Center For The Healing Arts
http://www.the-lotus-center.org/
24-R Pleasant Street
Newburyport, MA

September 17th, 10am-6pm
Riverwalk Beadshop & Gallery
http://www.riverwalkbeads.com/
Artist Reception (featured artist )
Amesbury, MA


October 10th
Healing Arts Festival
10am - 5pm
26 Pleasant Street
Newburyport, MA
Presenting my Art, Feng Shui & Shamanic Service.
http://www.robertahorsman.com/

October 11 - November 19
Time & Tide Fine Art
http://www.timeandtidefineart.com/
Artist Reception October 15th 5pm-7pm (featured artist)
Ipswich, MA

Feng Shui Talk

Talking Stick Circle

6:30pm-8PM

July 8th, 2011

Lotus Center for the Healing Arts

Newburyport MA.

Feng Talk to Keller Williams Realtors & Public

1pm - 2:30pm

Aug 25, 2011

Cummings Center

Beverly Ma.

Transformation for the New Earth

- Cancelled

Talk and Drumming Meditation

2pm-4pm

August 6th

Greenland, New Hampshire

Spirital Art

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