Mandorla Rising

Acknowledgments

Works by Daniel ‘3D’ Deardorff

Songs

• ‘Mandorla Hearts’ – Composed, performed, produced and arranged (Prelude)

• ‘White Bark’ – Performed by Deardorff with Nick Moore, piano (Prelude)

• ‘The Inner Nest’ – Composed, performed, produced and arranged (Prelude)

• ‘The Blessing Kiss’ – Composed, performed, produced and arranged (Prelude)

• ‘To Carry Fire’ – Composed and performed (Invocation)

• ‘For Now’ – Composed, performed live in concert with Judith-Kate Friedman (Love, Homecoming and Confirmation)

Teachings

• ‘The Prohibitive Cost of Denying Otherness,’ as quoted in Deardorff, The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture and Psyche, 2nd edn. (2009, p. xviii) (The Journey-1)

• ‘The Gift to Culture,’ as quoted in Deardorff, The Other Within teachings, part 1 (video), mythsingerlegacy.org (The Journey-1)

• ‘Bridge of Breath’ (prayer) – as quoted in unpublished writings (Katabasis)

• ‘Authenticity and Authority’ as depicted and spoken about by Judith-Kate Friedman in her ‘World Tree Yggdrasil (Norse)’ series (Katabasis)

• ‘The Power of Trickster’ – as quoted in unpublished teaching (Katabasis)

• ‘Intolerance Without Breeds Intolerance Within’ as quoted in Deardorff, The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture and Psyche, 2nd edn. (2009, p. 132) (Katabasis)

• ‘The Heart of the Teller,’ as quoted in his teachings around the storyfire, paraphrasing Sean Kane in The Wisdom of the Mythtellers (Feeding the Story, Fig. 1 Artist Statement, Project & Research History)

Images

• ‘World Tree Yggdrasil (Norse)’ – Line drawing of serpent, squirrel and eagle from his notebooks (Katabasis, see details of assemblage use, below)

• ‘Winged Mandolin’ – Illustration from his notebooks (Love, Homecoming and Confirmation and What’s Next)

Works by Judith-Kate Friedman

Assemblage/Image/Artwork

• ‘The Blessing Kiss’ – Feather fan with rose petals and photograph (Prelude)

• ‘Deer and Windowsill Altar’ – Photograph, 2021 (Portal and ‘Woods and Village Mandorla 2’ in Journey-2)

• ‘Mandorla Rising Torus Logo’ – Digital Assemblage (Gallery and About pages)

• ‘Calling Fire: Woods, Village and Hearth Fire’ – Mandorla images, 4 panels, 2021 (Invocation)

• ‘Doe at Mossy Rock’ – Photograph, 2021 (Journey-1)

• ‘Spiral: Grief into Blooming’ – Drawing, ink on paper, 2021 (Journey-1)

• ‘Duets with the Living World, 2021’ – Still Images (Journey-2)

  • ‘Story Tree’ – Oil pastels on paper, digitally rasterized and transformed

  • ‘Earth, Sky & Squirrel’ – Four panel mandorla, based upon ‘Story Tree’ (above)

  • ‘Heritage Mandorlas,’ two of a series – Digital assemblage combining ‘New York City Skyline Quartet’ – Oil painting by Irving ‘Mendl’ Friedman (Judith-Kate’s father) with ‘Evergreens’ – Photograph, text and torus mandorla image, Judith-Kate Friedman. Torus image courtesy of melissabeenaturalmagic.com

• ‘Mandorla Creature,’ – Oil pastel on paper and ‘Mandorla Creature, detail (eye image)’ (Katabasis)

• ‘Love and Trust Mandorla’ ­– Schematic drawing based on illustration by Daniel Deardorff (Love, Homecoming & Confirmation and What’s Next)

• ‘Muses in the Mandorla, series #2, Bee Portal – Digital Assemblage based on teachings of Daniel Deardorff and Sean Kane (Artist Statement)

• ‘Mandorla Garden’ – Eight photographs (Artist Statement)

• ‘The Other Within Now’ – Digital assemblage (Project & Research History)

• ‘Dancing in the Living World’ – Digital assemblage (Project & Research History)

• ‘Love Mandorla Hamsa’ – Artifact (1.25" x 1.25") and Photograph (Acknowledgements & Gratitudes Page)

• ‘Embers, 2019’ – Photograph (Feeding the Story)

Multi-media

• ‘Mandorla Rising’ Recital – full recital video, TRT: 1:06, filmed on zoom 28 July, 2021, additional video and poetry, August 2021 – Presentation, video sequences, editing (Welcome page)

• ‘Daniel Deardorff Calling Fire, 2019’ – Video 2021 and Photo essay, 2020 (Invocation)

• ‘A Prayer to Tatewari,’ 2021 – Poem, still and video images (Invocation)

• ‘World Tree Yggdrasil: Three Mandorlas’ – (Katabasis)

  • 1: ‘Yggdrasil (Norse), the Norse World Tree’ – Teaching, spoken word, digital assemblages from her series ‘Muses in the Mandorla series,’ based upon teachings and image by Daniel Deardorff with a quote from Robert Bly and miniature grayscale version of her ‘Story Tree’

  • 2: Same as image 1 with Mandorla overlay

  • 3: Same as image 2 with text overlay (animated on video) and spoken word ‘Yggrasil: Authenticity, Authority & Associativity,’ 2020-2021

• ‘Mandorla Rising Meditation: A Journey to the Other Within’ – Spoken word with moving image of ‘Mandorla Creature’ and detail in animation on video (Katabasis)

Song/Videos

• ‘Duets with the Living World, 2021’ – Vocal Improvisations/compositions, video performance, camera, editing (The Journey-2)

  • ‘The Hawthorne’s Song’ – Video/Song

  • ‘Hummingbird's Flight’ – Video

  • ‘Frog and Eye’ – Video/Song

  • ‘Peony Passages’ with text ‘To a Peony’ – Video/Song/Text

• ‘We Are’ – Improvised nigun/wordless melody and song ‘Mama’s Dress’, with lyrics (Katabasis)

• ‘For Now’ – Song Composed and performed by Daniel ‘3D’ Deardorff with Judith-Kate Friedman, backing vocals. From the twenty-song ‘Love Dogs’ concert video (2021), produced by Judith-Kate Friedman. Recorded live at Key City Public Theatre, Port Townsend, WA, US, Valentine’s Day, 2015. Videography: Al Bergstein. Audio post-production: Alan Friedman. Concert footage used with permission. With thanks to Denise Winter, Christa Holbrook, Aba Kiser, Al Bergstein, Birch Gerke, Alan Friedman and Sam Robinson. (Love, Homecoming and Confirmation)

Poetry/Spoken Word

• ‘O Teachers,’ – Quote, 2021, (The Journey-1)

• ‘Sovereignty within Endurance, Malchut Sheb’Netzach, 5781’ – Poem (The Journey-1)

• Three Poems with audio readings and images, 2021 (Love, Homecoming & Confirmation pages)

  • ‘Beyond the Hermit’s Door’ (after the Hermit’s Hut, 10th century)

  • ‘Denim Blues – For Daniel’

  • ‘Butterfly Girl’

• Lines excerpted from ‘Living Words, after Theodore Roethke, 2021’ (Project & Research History)

Other’s Images

• ‘Mandorla Hearts’ – Huichol Folk Art of Sun and Moon, gift of Robert Simmons and Kathy Helen Warner, Home page (Prelude)

• ‘White Bark Pinetree’ – Photograph by T.R.Ritchie, gift of the artist to Daniel Deardorff (Prelude)

• ‘Judith-Kate Calling Fire in a Nest of Cedar Bark’ – Photograph: Joe Breskin (Prelude, Invocation)

• ‘Torus’ element in ‘Mandorla Rising Torus Logo’ and schematic drawings from the Mandorla Rising and Muses in the Mandorla series – Image courtesy of melissabeenaturalmagic.com (throughout site)

• ‘New York City Skyline Quartet’ – Oil Painting by Irving ‘Mendl’ Friedman in ‘heritage mandorlas’ (The Journey-1)

• ‘Judith-Kate and Daniel Teaching at Ruach Ha’aretz’ – Photograph by Susan Raskin Abrams (Acknowledgements & Gratitudes Page)

Other’s Musical/Written Works

• ‘White Bark’ – Song, Composed by T.R. Ritchie for Daniel Deardorff (Prelude)

• ‘Calling Fire’ ­– Ritual drumming, Birch Gerke accompanying Daniel Deardorff (Invocation)

• ‘Stay Amazed’ – Quote by Susan Duhan Felix (The Journey-1)

• ‘Acorn clip art’ – Public Domain (The Journey-1)

• ‘On Associativity’ – Quote by Robert Bly, from his book Leaping Poetry, 1975, as spoken in recital video by Rafael Jesús González (Katabasis)

• Epigraph to ‘Beyond the Hermit’s Door,’ excerpted from ‘The Hermit’s Hut,’ Irish, author unknown, 10th c., in the book ‘Cinderbiter: Celtic Poems,’ version by Martin Shaw and Tony Hoagland (Love, Homecoming & Confirmation)

• ‘The Heart of the Teller,’ Sean Kane, from his book The Wisdom of the Mythtellers, as paraphrased by Daniel Deardorff in his teachings around the storyfire (Feeding the Story, Fig. 1 Artist Statement, Project & Research History)

• Epigraph, excerpted from ‘The Layers,’ by Stanley Kunitz (Artist Statement)

• Opening Epigraph, excerpted from the Zohar, translated by Rabbi Elliot Ginsburg (Project & Research History)

• Epigraph to Phase Two, from the teachings of Dr. Claire Zammit, Ph.D. (Project & Research History)

• ‘The Bucket Work’ paraphrased from the teachings of Robert Bly (Project & Research History)

• ‘You Make an Altar...,’ Irish Traditional saying, source unknown, in the epigraph to Phase Four (Project & Research History)

• Lines excerpted from ‘In a Dark Time’ by Theodore Roethke (Project & Research History)

All images, artworks, voices and texts of the artists used with permission.

Gratitudes

When I say the Shehechiyanu, giving thanks for everything I—and we—have been through to bring us to taste the fruits of this new season, I am especially grateful for those whose friendship, teaching, expertise, acts of kindness, courage and insight make it possible for me to do my work with more conviction, passion and depth.

First, to my long-time beloved teachers, mentors and family elders from whom I learned to listen, dance and trust my heart and soul to fully sing: Anna Halprin z”l, Rhiannon, Vickie Dodd, my father Irving ‘Mendl’ Friedman z”l, mother Shulamis Levin Friedman z”l, great aunt Shifra Himmel z”l and aunt Hannah ‘Channie’ Levin z”l.

Second, to my teachers in myth, poetry and motion whose voices and cadences accompany me in this work: Robert Bly, Gioia Timpanelli, Rabbi Sheldon Marder, Michael and Anneli Molin-Skelton, Rabbi Elliot Ginsburg, Tanya Shaffer, Laura Lewis Thayer, Stacia Givens and Susan Duhan Felix.

For This Project

For technical support and vision, thank you: David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth, Peri Robin, Evan Bombardier (horticulture), Isabel Bay Design, Sharon Louden (websites), Jocelyn Arem (archives) and Harry (Matthew) Burton for his wonderful 2008 interview with Daniel Deardorff in the UK.

For inspiration on audio and on the page, these poets and tellers gave me sustenance and context: Robin Wall Kimmerer, William Stafford z”l, Wendell Berry, Li-Young Lee, Stanley Kunitz z”l, Naomi Shihab Nye, Kate Barnes z”l, Martin Shaw, Tony Hoagland z"l, Martin Prechtel, Michael Meade, Mary Oliver z”l, David Whyte, Marge Piercy and Kenny Fries. And within Deardorff’s teachings the following: William Cowper, Lawrence Raab, Frederich Holderlein, Jane Hischfield, Rumi, Theodore Roethke and Lao Tzu.

A Deep Bow of Gratitude

For conversation and company in the writing journey: Sasha Soreff, Julia McNeal, Hiromi Isobe, Valerie Collins, Mercedes Gonzalez, Fran Heinith, Ann Holmes Redding, Caroline Wildflower, Pam McWethy, Vickie Dodd, Sean Williams, Will Weigler and Phyllis Gorfain.

My mutual cheering peeps, thank you: Reszi Deardorff, Meg Elaine Deardorff, Suzan Goodman, Louis Pollack, Wendy Botwin, Jackie Luna Levin, Kathy Helen Warner and Robert Simmons, Roseanna Amalee, Ann and Jay Bonestell, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, Kelly Kelly, Michael Townsend, Dr. Claire Zammit, Sara Wilson and all at Feminine Power, Edie Hartshorne, Laurie Ginsburg, all at the London Writers’ Salon and the Saxe-Taller and Goldblatt-Rohr families.

A Resounding Shout Out

Deepest thanks to my Poetics of Imagination M.A. tutors: Dr. Tracey Warr, Dr. Martin Shaw, adjuncts Dr. Emma Bush, Dr. Bram Arnold and guest lecturer J.R. Carpenter. And for such splendid company on the journey, all my course-mates, especially: