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"Shamans have been called “the wounded healers.” Like writers, they are special people set apart from the rest by their dreams, visions, or unique experiences. Shamans, like many writers, are prepared for their work by enduring terrible ordeals… They are taken apart and put back together again in a new way. In a sense they have died and been reborn, and this experience gives them special powers. Many writers come to their craft only after they have been shattered by life in some way.”

~ Christopher Vogler (The Writer’s Journey )

When reading Vogler’s work for our course, I felt his words were so reassuring that I needed to illustrate something relevant; the fairly obvious shaman-writer self portrait, though designed based more on an Irish Celtic style than the Native American traditionally associated with the title of Shaman; I thought if I was butchering someone’s heritage within the hour I had to sketch, it would be safer if it were mine.

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"Shamans have been called “the wounded healers.” Like writers, they are special people set apart from the rest by their dreams, visions, or unique experiences. Shamans, like many writers, are prepared for their work by enduring terrible ordeals… They are taken apart and put back together again in a new way. In a sense they have died and been reborn, and this experience gives them special powers. Many writers come to their craft only after they have been shattered by life in some way.”

~ Christopher Vogler (The Writer’s Journey )

When reading Vogler’s work for our course, I felt his words were so reassuring that I needed to illustrate something relevant; the fairly obvious shaman-writer self portrait, though designed based more on an Irish Celtic style than the Native American traditionally associated with the title of Shaman; I thought if I was butchering someone’s heritage within the hour I had to sketch, it would be safer if it were mine.