Adrienne Amundsen

Artist • Writer • Poet

I discovered the power of art when I lost a child. Like a woman in a fairy tale, I wandered as in a dark wood, lost, looking for moonlit stones to show me the way to survive, to heal, to transform. I found this In Cassandra Light’s Way of the Doll school, where I sculpted and costumed a life-sized “doll,” a woman holding a baby. Many stories of loss were layered into the making. When I sculpted the baby, I wrote one of first poems of my adult life. The final words alluded to the Celtic Cerridwen myth, which ends with the small human hero’s transformation into the great bard Taliesin. The words were “and the poet comes ashore.” (more)