S.A.R.K

Heather Blakey's Questions

1.Lao Tze remarked that 'a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step'. Share a numinous moment that enabled you to name, claim and become the much-loved SARK. When did you step outside the lines to colour the walls?

2. King Arthur had Excalibur; Luke Skywalker learned to use the power of 'the force'. What creative weaponry must children never relinquish?

3. I know you are familiar with voice dialogue Susan. Go to the vegetable crisper, pull out a head of broccoli and ask it about wildness and succulence. Share any fresh insights that you glean from her today.

4. Words are deeds and ‘the pregnant saying of the sage has the power to influence a coming age.’ What must be included in a retrospective of your ‘deeds’?

5. You have publicly shared your relationship with 'the Pusher' and the archetypal inner critic. Is the driving force behind SARK really a six year old with ADD syndrome?

6. Despite transient plenty the modern landscape can seem bereft of promise and creativity. What antidotes have you found to protect your creative billabong from evaporating, bleaching and baking dry? How do you keep yourself, as my friend Winnie likes to say, 'plenished'

7. Australia is an ancient land, which diminishes humans and reminds them of their insignificance in the scheme of things. What creative realities keep you grounded?

8. On your poster 'How to be an Artist', which Edwina Peterson Cross used to create an Artist Party, one of the things to do is to 'Invite someone Dangerous to Tea'. The Cross family really want to know who you would invite to tea?

9. If you could only paint and write with three colours, which would you choose to express your creativity?

10. The truly brave are those who recognise their own fears and conquer them. What fears haunt you?

11 Your dream factory gives people all over the world wings. What are you and Jupiter, the cat, dreaming about these days? Where would you like to go on the wings of a dream?

12.
1st Witch: Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd. 2nd Witch: Thrice and once the hedge-pic whined.
3rd Witch: Harpier cries; 'tis time, 'tis time.
1st Witch: Round about the cauldron go; In the poinson'd entrails throw. Toad, that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Swelter'd venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.
All: Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and caultron bubble.
Act IV, scene I, lines 1 to 11 Macbeth

In this passage, Shakespeare breaks from the iambic pentameter and begins to rhyme the lines. This gives it the effect of making the passage sound like some magic words to cast a spell. Hover over your creative cauldron, adding things to this most charmed pot. Share a moment when an alchemical shift took place, your work shifted direction and you drew breath and said 'Wow!

13. You have given such profound advice to so many, worded in simple, accessible, delicious terms such as "Get Juicy" "Stay Loose" "Imagine Yourself Magic" "Drive Away Fear". If you were to choose only three that you would pass on to the world, what would they be? What is the direction that you believe is most important?

Tea With Sark

Sark wrote telling me that when I come to San Francisco we will go to tea at Tallulasf.'s.

Given that everyone at Tallulasf's has a story to tell we will be right at home. Me! I think I will order the Wild Mushrooms.

Here in Melbourne I amd dreaming of walking up the stairs with Sark to share a tea to remember.
Heather Blakey.