CYCLONE DREAMING — Complete Cycle

Fourteen Stations of Cyclone Dreaming; and a Cyclone Advice for Cyclone Dreaming

Inside the storm
Illustration by the author

In this series cyclones are personified as the embodiment of an intimate relationship between creativity and destructiveness. Our vulnerability is seen as the occasion for insight into resilience that transcends our material preoccupations. This disposition is placed alongside ancient ways of being in other cultures. The resonance of this (essentially a mystical response to existence) with aspects of Quantum theory evokes a dimension of technical work that recovers the wonder of encounter with the things and processes. Cyclones become the totem of a new Dreaming that has its roots in local environments and the recovery of ancient human stewardship.

Where ever it is mentioned, cyclone dreaming is both a description of a way of relating to things and processes, and the name of any cyclonic event as totem — hence, cyclone dreaming; and Cyclone Dreaming.

The consulting meteorologist for this project was Russell Jaycock who was the officer in charge at the Bureau of Meteorology, Townsville.

1. Vulnerability as Blessing (Part 1)
2. Vulnerability as Blessing (Part 2)
3. Wandjina
4. Nataraja
5. Prajna — Kurana
6. Wu-Wei
7. Ta-Whiri-mMa-Tea
8. Lolami
9. Quon
10. Metsat
11. El Nino — La Nina
12. Badi — Kulunggur
13. Cyclone Dreaming — defined
14. Cyclone Dreaming — liturgical peroration
15. Top Priority Cyclone Advice — Cyclone Dreaming

After the storm
Illustration by the author

VULNERABILITY BLESSING CYCLONE DREAMING GEOPOLITICS