These are the first sculptures I’ve made in over ten years. I returned to this practice to memorialize a profound period of time spent transmuting grief. ‘Oghams Talking: Constellations of Grief’ was inspired by my pagan Celtic ancestors, who used the Ogham language to carve the names of loved ones into standing stones across the Irish landscape.
These ancient stones, symbols of wild and natural grief ceremonies, guided me to create my own monuments to loss. Standing together in conversation, each represents a different sorrow: grief for a grandfather I never knew, for my child self, for Palestine, and for the connection severed from ancestry and earth.
Together, the stone sculptures form constellations of grief, generating an electric energy in the spaces between them. This energy activates an inner knowing that within our grief, emerges room for hope, new stories, and deeper truths.
You can read more about this work at ashscrivener[dot]com. 🗿🕯️🗿
🌀I had the absolute best time doing this stand up set I mean scholarly presentation about three of my favorite subjects: art as in mystic visions, the ancient Mesopotamian deities Inanna and Ereshkigal, and green burial.
I love you Hudson Valley. I love that this is where these things can swirl together in a coherent web of facts and feelings.
🕯️ this is just the beginning 🕯️
Thank you @greater.mysteries@kelliscarr@toswingonthespiral@amywhiteeyes for making this happen in the most perfect way.
Thanks so much to everyone who filled the room for @ash.scribe ’s incredible workshop last night!
Ereshkigal’s Garden opened a space for us to turn toward death as fertile ground for transformation. Ash guided us with such clarity and care, offering a reimagining of death practices that feels both ancient and of this moment.
Deep gratitude as well to @amywhiteeyes for grounding us with ceremonial tea, and for lifting us into the closing with lavender smoke.
If you missed it, there are still many opportunities to join us as the Lesser Mysteries continue to unfold …
The Mysteries are opening ✨
We’re so excited to begin this two-week spring arc of Lesser Mysteries, unfolding from the New Moon to the Full Moon here in the Hudson Valley.
We gather first under the new moon for Ereshkigal’s Garden: Green Burial as Sacred Composting with @ash.scribe
An evening to gently turn toward what we’ve been taught to turn away from, and to remember death as part of the great cycle of transformation.
This is the threshold. The beginning of a shared journey into what is ending, what is emerging, and what is asking to be born through us.
A few spaces remain for those who feel called to join us this evening.
Link in bio.
We begin the Lesser Mysteries not with ascent, but with a turning toward the earth, into the realm of Ereshkigal: where endings are also beginnings.
@ash.scribe guides Ereshkigal’s Garden, a Green Burial workshop @askkingston , inviting us into relationship with death, decay, and the living systems that hold us.
Green burial is not only a practice. It is a reorientation. A remembering that the end of a life is also an offering back to the web of life.
Ash brings deep knowledge, care, and clarity to this threshold work, opening space for reflection and a different kind of conversation around death.
This is also a gathering point for the growing Hudson Valley death care community, a place to meet, connect, and strengthen the web.
Please join us 🌀
Join me @artsocietyofkingston on 4/17 to learn about green burial and how Ereshkigal (the Ancient Mesopotamian Queen of the Otherworld) can help us redesign our relationship to death and dying.
Together we’ll cover…
🕯️ the mystic visions that led me here
🕯️ what green burial is (and isn’t)
🕯️ the industrialization of funerary rites
🕯️ Ereshkigal as the generative composter
🕯️ collective dreaming about what it means to die well
🕯️ spotlight on death innovators in the Hudson Valley
Hope to see you there 🌱
Made possible by @kelliscarr
Tickets @greater.mysteries
![These are the first sculptures I’ve made in over ten years. I returned to this practice to memorialize a profound period of time spent transmuting grief. ‘Oghams Talking: Constellations of Grief’ was inspired by my pagan Celtic ancestors, who used the Ogham language to carve the names of loved ones into standing stones across the Irish landscape.These ancient stones, symbols of wild and natural grief ceremonies, guided me to create my own monuments to loss. Standing together in conversation, each represents a different sorrow: grief for a grandfather I never knew, for my child self, for Palestine, and for the connection severed from ancestry and earth.Together, the stone sculptures form constellations of grief, generating an electric energy in the spaces between them. This energy activates an inner knowing that within our grief, emerges room for hope, new stories, and deeper truths.You can read more about this work at ashscrivener[dot]com. ️](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6870373543362724713613_0_853c12a63ca23b0c9b57faa043942219.jpg?o=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&h=e1412b216a2080c4b4a013c36fdfac08)
