Mandorla Rising

‘The prohibitive cost of denying Otherness could not be more crucial to the survival of the human race. Our mass refusal to face the “Other within” has engendered a regimen of sociopolitical atrocities, genocidal horrors and environmental devastations—a virulent storm of global proportions. Contrary to the tenets of foreign policy and social activism, a remedy for this aggressive pandemic cannot be mediated, legislated, or enforced at a global, regional or municipal level; it can only begin at the root, within each individual (intra-personally) and within our nearest and most intimate relations (inter-personally). It is therefore in this small and most private of territories that the potential for a truly humane society begins.’

––Daniel ‘3D’ Deardorff

‘The gift to culture does not come from culture.
It comes from outside culture.
So if you want to bring a gift to culture,
you have to go out and get something from the wilderness —
some wisdom,
some fire ––
to bring cultural vitality in
from the outside.’

––Daniel ‘3D’ Deardorff