Dogfish Moon
Dogfish Moon Full Moon September 9, 2022 face forward & her body slumped her husband appeared in the aisle & lifted her face glazed eyes unresponsive, he called for a doctor, a nurse our plane was silent & still as he cried emergency twilight oxygen, burning jet fuel, flying high above the earth one human […]
Old Friend Moon
Old Friend Moon New Moon August 27, 2022 Recall the barking dog hidden in summer& the dogged delicacy of cabbage mothstilting flamenco above traffic in afternoon sun All the sentience not our own, tended or wild,that permeate the city of our suspicious speciesants, pollen, sparrows, cactus, grass Bring to the fore the alien imaginariumwho call the willow […]
Veil of Life Moon
Veil of Life Moon Full Moon August 11, 2022 Head aches above the wind & summer seaa narrow two lane road gives little solacebut what the abyss reveals is a blazecloud-clear splendor & shrouded life-edge. Poem by Qayyum Johnson.Painting by Suiko McCall. She Who Gives Life to the Dead, 2022. Ink on paper, 10×9″
Three Principles Moon
Three Principles Moon The new moon is July 28, 2022. I climb the mountain Haleakala in a borrowed car someone else drives the bell rings me back to this world building cushion home now but away again soon so for a moment you you you you you are alive throughout one dream of three […]
Daytime Stars Moon
Daytime Stars Moon Full Moon July 13, 2022 (An honest address to the goddess of awakening begins with confession— This world can feel too much. Gratitude you beautiful awakening dark appearance dream cataract.) Black is black at night in dark awakening the dark is honest & sublime, the black awakened compassion stars the stars […]
Medicine Journey Moon
New Moon June 28, 2022 Uncertain of our felicitous life, we go looking for the moon constant infinity of sky light meets the eye on breath one after another, love widens into the confidence of everyday abiding. Poem by Qayyum Johnson Painting by Suiko McCall.
A Letter from Neva and Raff
Dear Art Monastery Community, After 10 years, we are moving on from the Art Monastery to launch our own land-based arts collective, WildHeart: Center for Performance and Embodiment Practice, in Wallkill NY. It has been a wild and transformative decade! We are deeply grateful for the myriad experiences of connecting with beautiful artists, deepening into […]
Small Potatoes Moon
Small Potatoes Moon Full Moon June 14, 2022 channeling Joseph Beuys, the German conceptual artist who once said,“The act of peeling a potato can be a work of art if it is a conscious act.” Any small part of the worldcan sometimes enter as musicinto a tender suchnessthat belies explanation—yesterday it was vanishing whitecapsduring a break […]
Welcome to Art Monastery Hawai’i!
Aloha! We have big news: the Art Monastery has closed up shop in Vermont and relocated to Hawai’i. Welcome to Art Monastery Hawai’i! The Art Monastery is now in residence on a lush permaculture farm nestled in mountains overlooking the sea on the Big Island, Hawai’i. The Hawaiian Islands are the ancestral home of the […]
Precious Mote of Luminous Dust Moon
Precious Mote of Luminous Dust Moon New Moon May 30, 2022 Poem by Qayyum Johnson Painting by Suiko McCall Precious Mote, 2022. Ink on paper, 14×9″. suiko.art
