An Embodiment Artist's Statement

I am a weaver.  

I weave the threads of our shared humanity - 

like the red blood that flows between us and the great river of time that connects us - 

into a living, breathing tapestry.  

For the survival of our One EarthBody is dependent upon our ability to remember what it means to be HUMAN and fully present to the messy glory of our process.  Sustaining our humanity is the resounding trumpet call for this period of 

Modern Tribalism that we now find ourselves within.

  

Descendant of the winged clan, I am a gatherer.

I gather song and dance, language and love, digital media and the visual arts, photography and paint, people and places, together.  I weave a restored narrative - one that holds not just humans but all life forms as god-like and special.  My aim is to share a Self-Expression that is reciprocal and that celebrates our communal existence on Earth.  Life itself is my organic canvas.  

I am an Embodiment Artist who celebrates, reveres, teaches and captures the Living Arts.

I am a Builder actively Co-Creating & Crafting a New World.

Wielding the metaphor of movement as a tool for personal and global transformation, I am also a wild woman who weaves her Divine Feminine on dance floors across San Diego - infusing them with innocence and joy as I ecstatically stir an ancestral pot of community.  A passionate local activist, I have worked to raise money and awareness for micro-farming and sustainable food.  My last vision, the Prosperity Hive, was a community gathering space for cultural vibrancy and regional sustainability, as well as a magical container for healing our individual and collective wounds.  In the spring of 2012, I was initiated into the ways of Animal Medicine - thanks, in large part, to the blue-gray Southwest Speckled Rattlesnake that bit my left leg. 

 

As a work continually in process, I integrate a connective expressionism.

I believe in dance and art as a means of empowerment which discovers, frees and validates the natural tendencies of each unique being.  It is the process of relationships and the relationships of process that informs my work.  How we relate to the ground below our feet, the life sustaining air surrounding us, our human bodies and one another, is vital to the story that we must revive in order for all species to survive on this planet.

Dancing in Community is my Spiritual Practice. 
 

I strive to build an intentional awareness - 
one that includes the Self in relationship with everything around it.  

Today, it is imperative that we reject any isolationist tendencies to separate art from its influential relationship with daily life and, instead, define a revitalized era of the art of the everyday. It just may be the plausible answer for a civilization wobbling on the brink.  For now, just as ever, an alternative revelation for art, life and civilization as we know it, is dire.

Today, I honor and celebrate that what I was brought into this world, at this time now, to share -
CONNECTION, SENSUALITY, INTIMACY, 
INNOCENCE, JOY, EXPRESSION,
METAPHOR, STORY & COMMUNITY - IS MEDICINE.

--Cara H. Cadwallader, Medicine Woman

 "She Who Dances with Gulls,"  Torrey Pines State Beach, Fall 2009

                                           Photo courtesy of Stone's Throw Photography