This is a collaboration done by three friends, producing nine short films, divided into three revolutions, three turns of the spiral. In the creation of this project we became increasingly aware that we are not alone in this journey.

Each of us is a cosmos in and unto ourselves. We are open systems, nested within the larger communities we live and work in. This understanding, of our evolving participation within and of the universe, is referred to as complexity theory.

Complex adaptive systems are systems that change by interacting with one another. The sum of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Something new emerges from this connection with one another.  The essence of a collaboration is connectivity. It is the brushing up against ideas perceived as outside of your individual psyche, until something new and inherently unpredictable arrises they become one, unified, together, cohesive.

Words mix, metaphors collide,” the voice that was once yours alone at the entry of the spiral, is saturated and cushioned by others. It is nothing but a distilled essence from a collective raindrop, echoing time both past and present.

Attempting to distill our collective experience into sixty minutes is to try to distill an ocean into a dewdrop. But this is what nature asks of all her creatures when it is their time to pass along and bring forward what is most essential. All of us who undergo this process are apprentices to those great alchemists, the giant redwoods, who condense all of their lived experience into seeds no larger than a grain of sand.

As Marion Woodman believed, "to go into that hole at the center – which is really the creative matrix – is to venture to find our own agenda and our own devils” (p. 99). This is the collaborative journey.

Beneath each film is a text, a paratext. This is a concept shared with us by scholar and writer, Susan Rowland and artist and poet, Joel Weishaus in their own collaborative book; Jungian Arts Based Research and the Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico. Joel’s work introduced us to the power and elegance of paratext as a means of interweaving logos and eros, scholarship and art, thereby contributing to the healing of the psychic split that is at the heart of our multiple planetary crises.

Think of the paratext, which dangles beneath the films like a root system, as a network of conduit, cast wide and posed to draw the moisture of your attention and curiosity back into the densely packed seeds of imagery presented in the films. It is our hope that perhaps, something in them may just germinate and take on new life in the fertile soil of your imaginations. (Charles Morse)