January 16, 2005

Travel writer and professional photographer Cindy A. Pavlinac says she has been visiting special places ever since Apollo yelled at her in Delphi in 1977.

No surprise, then, that this charter member of CWC Marin titles her January presentation, in which she introduces eight archetypal landscapes through photos with music, "Depicting Place: Powerful Writing through Inspiring Photographs."

Come prepared to start the New Year writing! There will be writing exercises.

"Vividly described place is fundamental to communicating the significance, influence and power of environment. Careful, complete, intentional depictions will strengthen your writing and delight your readers," Cindy says. "As a writer, you select what to include, what to draw attention to, what to reinforce, and how to alter mood by what is changing in the landscape or by what is missing."

Through guided imagery and stunning visuals, she will guide us on a journey through the archetypal landscapes of the imagination, including ocean, desert, mountain, forest. We will briefly explore each territory's unique qualities and gifts, then return to a multimedia presentation of integrated sacred landscapes with original slides and "transformative music" by Martin Gregory.
She promises: "The inner soul landscape will be fed, caressed, refined, balanced and strengthened by lucidly observing external landscapes."

Cindy Pavlinac blends inspired photography with powerful writing to depict place lucidly, vividly and creatively. A fine art photographer specializing in images that convey a sense of the beauty and mystery of place, she works on location throughout North America and Europe photographing labyrinths, ancient sanctuaries and modern expressions of the sacred.

Time + Space = Place

A published author and former editor of Shaman's Drum magazine and Marin's own Artist Dialogue, her articles, photo essays, poetry and photography have appeared in over 300 publications, including principal photography for Sanctuaries of the Goddess and Labyrinths, and in Time magazine's "Pictures of the Year."

Her exhibited fine art photography has won several dozen awards, and she presents her multimedia productions—Mystical Britain, American Southwest Spirit and Labyrinths of Spirit & Grace, featuring hundred of slides with original music—for conferences and galleries (most recently for doctors and nurses at the Sacred Space Foundation's conference in England). She earned a master's degree in arts and consciousness studies (focusing on the use of art and dance for healing in ancient cultures) and a B.A. in fine art photography with a minor in astrophysics.

Check out her website at www.sacred-land-photography.com.