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About Me
- Rima Staines
- Rima Staines is an artist using paint, wood, word, music, animation, clock-making, puppetry & story to attempt to build a gate through the hedge that grows along the boundary between this world & that. Her gate-building has been a lifelong pursuit, & she hopes to have perhaps propped aside even one spiked loop of bramble (leaving a chink just big enough for a mud-kneeling, trusting eye to glimpse the beauty there beyond), before she goes through herself.
Always stubborn about living the things that make her heart sing, Rima has lived on wheels a few times in her life. She's currently rooted in mossy South Devon, halfway between moor and sea.
Rima’s inspirations include the world & language of folktale; faces of people who pass her on the street; folk music & art of Old Europe & beyond; peasant & nomadic living; magics of every feather; wilderness & plant-lore; the margins of thought, experience, community & spirituality; & the beauty in otherness.
Crumbs fall from Rima’s threadbare coat pockets as she travels, & can be found collected here, where you may join the caravan.
I haven't read every word Of your dissertation yet, but this part of the conclusion makes clear what I never quite understood about folk tales. The way you explain about the "in-between places" is very interesting. I see now, that is how to read the folk tales. The insight into a culture's true essence, as you say, is also very interesting. You have written a very important paper on the art of the Middle Ages, and I will be reading it all. You worked very hard on it and you must be very satisfied and proud of your work. We have a few things in common and I am inspired by your blog. It is so very imaginative and beautifully done. You are very unique and blessed with great talent. Cynthia Leeser
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