Mandorla Rising

Using this Site

This website allows you to dive into the same well from a number of angles, linear and intuitive. Like Deardorff’s work and like the mandorla, it is an entry and exit place to something both deeply within and beyond us. If I am successful, your experience will be holographic and transmissive. —Judith-Kate Friedman

Here is a roadmap to using this site, its many links and associative connections.

  1. First, if your time allows, Judith-Kate has prepared a quartet of Daniel's songs for you to listen to as a warm up: https://mythsingerlegacy.org/home#prelude These were played in the virtual 'lobby' before the start of the start of the recital.
    [Note to Poetics of Imagination M.A. assessors: As these songs are not Judith-Kate's original work, consider the prelude section as adjunct to her Creative Dissertation Project. These songs are now intended as a bridge between the public Mythsinger Legacy site and the password protected Mandorla Rising portal which contains JK's dissertation project.]

  2. Next, enter the Mandorla Rising Project by visiting:

  3. At the Portal page, type in the password and click the arrow icon to enter.

    • The password will expire in 4 hours.

    • You may enter/re-enter the password as many times as you like.

    • You may save the password in your browser.

    • (To ‘log out’, simply close your browser window and/or quit your browser.)

  4. You are now viewing the Mandorla Rising project main page. This is Judith-Kate Friedman's formal public 'home' for her dissertation project. All content here will be fixed without changes from 9am Pacifc on 13 August 2021 until year end with the exception of the What's Next and Feeding the Story pages which will be updated periodically as new related events arise and responses from the public come in.
    From here, you may scroll down the page to:

  5. On the Mandorla Rising project Gallery & About the Project pages:

    • Text links are shown in different colors but always with underlines.

      • For instance, at the top of each page the title ‘Mandorla Rising’ is a link back to the project main page.

    • Watch videos and listen to audio files by clicking on their respective triangle icon play buttons.

      • Click the ‘4-arrow’ icon to watch videos in full-screen mode.

    • Click red/gray oval buttons to view PDFs or go to other pages, such as to Feed the Story with your comments.

    • Click images to see larger versions.

      • Click the ‘X’ icon at the top right of the window to close enlarged images and return to the page you were previously viewing.

      • FYI - ‘Right-clicking’ on images has been disabled on this entire website.

    • At the bottom of each page are page title text links so you can easily move forward and backward through both the Mandorla Rising project Gallery & About the Project Gallery pages in sequence.

  6. On the About the Project pages:

    • Click the red ‘About the Project’ oval button at the bottom of any page to return to the About the Project main page, the page where all thumbnails for the 'About' pages are located.

  7. View the Table of Contents (TOC) to help understand the sequencing of pages, see the length of audio and video files, and review all the topics/items included on each page. Text links are included to help you navigate the site.

    • To simultaneously view the TOC with the rest of the site, click the TOC button on the Welcome page or click the text link above. These two links will open the TOC in a new tab in your browser so you may refer back to the TOC at anytime.

  8. A Note on Accessibility: To support access and to convey the immediacy of creative expression in the Oral Tradition, the material of Mandorla Rising is provided in several forms.

    • The full recital video, recorded live with an assembled community of colleagues and friends online, includes verbal descriptions of many of the visual images.

      • Click the triangle icon to play the video.

      • Click the ‘4-arrow’ icon to watch the video in full-screen mode.

    • The website gallery pages present almost all the same material in an easily searchable way, combining image and written word with audio recordings of the poems and spoken word pieces.

    • The About section pages provide academic background (bibliography, research, glossary), an artist statement and artist biographies, background on Deardorff’s book The Other Within, a Table of Contents with links for easy reference and site navigation, a place to learn about what’s next with the Project and a opportunity to feed the story…

    • For visitors with visual or auditory impairment:

      • Descriptive image file names may be used as alt tags.

      • Pages have descriptive titles and headings are identified by the CSS stylesheet.

      • Transcripts and text lyrics/poems have been included as well as audio/video files.

 
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