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Heather Marusiak | Temenos

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Heather Marusiak | Temenos
Heather Marusiak | Manhattan, Kansas
Douglas fir, ash, acrylic paint, pyrography
5.75 x 5.25 x 5.25 inches
Instagram: heathermarusiak

A temenos surrounds a sacred space. In classical architecture it encloses a temple, and according to Carl Jung it protects the center of one’s be­ing.
Temenos walls are intentionally porous to facilitate passage between the inner and outer, the visible and invisible, the earthly and spiritu­al. In this work, the soft growth has been carved away into small posts, leaving the dense winter growth rings as lintels to define and protect the vessel’s sacred inner, breathing, sanctuary.