detail, “Loon and Moon”
Loon and Moon
Loon and Moon is a story, an allegory in prose. Relationship, initiation, witnessing, transformation, and belonging. Fear, greed, and entitlement are protagonists to light. Light cannot be contained.
Make a box for the light, put a lid on it, and it’s gone.
About Loon and Moon
Loon and Moon is an allegorical tale with an invitation to examine a society based on consuming. What do our relationships look like, how do feelings of isolation or inclusion affect our interaction with the world? What will we do when faced with the fear of lack? What creates feelings of separateness? Follow the journey of Loon and Moon to see what pearl of wisdom will be found in the layers of muck.
In a fearful world fixated on entitlement, consumption and greed Loon has lost his way. He will do anything to satisfy his longing to be connected to the vital source of life. The only way he feels he can do that is to steal the light of another. Moon with its reflective quality helps illuminate a new way. The story of Loon and Moon is a story of insatiability, recognition, acknowledgment and finding other possibilities as we seek balance and restoration of life and vitality for ourselves, the planet and all sentient beings. To purchase click here.
The idea for the story of Loon and Moon was conceived by Tracie Stewart in 2017. While immersed in the exhibition Salt Water Skin Boats, a collaborative installation with Dr. Erica Grimm and Sheinagh Anderson, Tracie had a dream-like vision while wearing a strand of black pearls, that a Pearl is a piece of the Moon that’s fallen into the water. Continuing to work with climate change, Water and water bodies she questioned her part of the equation. What was her role in the community?
The vision continued to haunt Tracie until in Spring of 2022 she invited author Teresa Klein to help flesh out and bring the story of Loon and Moon to fruition.
Coupled with the poetic prose that fills the 44 pages of this collaboratively written book are a series of stunning images. Created by artist Tracie Stewart these paintings are a visceral response to the story as it unfolded.
You are invited to partake in this visual feast and be transported to the imaginal world by a tale that weaves poetry and prose with dreamy and inspiring images. As a reader you are also invited to explore the story and see what questions arise as you navigate the journey with Loon and Moon.
Be prepared to be enchanted and perhaps find fuel for transformation as Loon and Moon was intended to provoke questions, create pause for reflection and ignite the imagination.
See our pages for teaching tools with questions that might be asked in classes, circles or in book clubs, and and for workshops offered by Teresa and Tracie.