The Difference

by Lian Brook-Tyler

Tonight, I feasted on the film Lee, about Lee Miller… she was a photographer, photojournalist and war correspondent.

It was a kaleidoscope of heart-wrenching devastation, courage, truth, love, bare breasts, cruelty, compassion, death, and red lipstick.

What struck me was seeing it through a woman’s lens, literally and metaphorically.

“Only a woman could’ve taken these.”

(A quote from the film.)

In a world in which men and women, and especially the differences between them, are projected upon in ways that can dismiss or stereotype, it was a reminder of something more ancient… The power of a woman’s seeing.

And timely for me and the women who are journeying deep into an almost forgotten Feminine archetype in The Rose Quest…. Which could be said to be a remembrance, celebration, and union of difference.

“How different she is from me, how strangely different!”

(The stranger describing the temple priestess in the book ‘The Sacred Prostitute’ by Nancy Qualls-Corbett.)

Maybe we are ready, after long being stretched between the poles of homogeneity and objectification, to reclaim the love, magic, truth and beauty of the differences.

Photo taken tonight in the rather lovely Everyman cinema.

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