Amaya Rourke
@amayarourke.bsky.social
Artist & teacher sharing field notes on the journey to follow the creative heart. When I'm not creating, I'm usually chasing my bossy border-collie through the Irish rain.
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Amaya Rourke
@amayarourke.bsky.social
· Jan 23
I aspire to the time keeping of animist storytellers who document events with sensual epiphanies of the landscape--it's the flower moon full and bright; the apple trees were pregnant with blossom and swaying in the warm wind; the spring tide was eager to kiss the furthest corners of the shore.
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September 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I love that somehow I squirreled some paint away months ago, totally forgot about it, and discovered it like lost treasure this morning while looking for something else 😅
a box of watercolors and a brush on a light blue background
ALT: a box of watercolors and a brush on a light blue background
media.tenor.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I love that somehow I squirreled some paint away months ago, totally forgot about it, and discovered it like lost treasure this morning while looking for something else 😅
Sharing paintings with a fellow painter and just absolutely swooning over each other's work >>>>>>
😍😍😍😍😍
😍😍😍😍😍
September 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Sharing paintings with a fellow painter and just absolutely swooning over each other's work >>>>>>
😍😍😍😍😍
😍😍😍😍😍
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August 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Reposted by Amaya Rourke
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
December 17, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
Again, I have poured my heart out. Part 2 of the Manifesto is live!
If you have ever:
✨felt the ache of an unlived life
✨found yourself creatively blocked
✨looked at the stirring in your soul and asked, "But what is the point of doing this?"
This one's for you.
open.substack.com/pub/amayarou...
If you have ever:
✨felt the ache of an unlived life
✨found yourself creatively blocked
✨looked at the stirring in your soul and asked, "But what is the point of doing this?"
This one's for you.
open.substack.com/pub/amayarou...
The Storied Body: Rewriting Your Story for Creative Liberation (Coeurage Manifesto Part 2)
Your aliveness is born from the story you embody. A false story will silence your creative heart.
open.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Again, I have poured my heart out. Part 2 of the Manifesto is live!
If you have ever:
✨felt the ache of an unlived life
✨found yourself creatively blocked
✨looked at the stirring in your soul and asked, "But what is the point of doing this?"
This one's for you.
open.substack.com/pub/amayarou...
If you have ever:
✨felt the ache of an unlived life
✨found yourself creatively blocked
✨looked at the stirring in your soul and asked, "But what is the point of doing this?"
This one's for you.
open.substack.com/pub/amayarou...
❤️🔥🙏
"Creation, in its truest sense, is an act of inquiry.
It is a conversation, not a monologue." — @amayarourke.bsky.social
I've been struggling with my art (my tarot work as well as my creative practice) for a long time now. As an unemployed chronically ill person, the pressure to monetise is HIGH 🚨
It is a conversation, not a monologue." — @amayarourke.bsky.social
I've been struggling with my art (my tarot work as well as my creative practice) for a long time now. As an unemployed chronically ill person, the pressure to monetise is HIGH 🚨
August 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
❤️🔥🙏
It’s finally live: the culmination of years of personal deep spiritual and creative seeking, my whole heart, rolled into a manifesto.
If you’re a:
✨ creative
✨ mystic
✨ if you crave spiritual grounding
✨ if you’re all of the above
This letter is for you.
open.substack.com/pub/amayarou...
If you’re a:
✨ creative
✨ mystic
✨ if you crave spiritual grounding
✨ if you’re all of the above
This letter is for you.
open.substack.com/pub/amayarou...
Coeurage: A Manifesto for Reclaiming Your Creative Heart
You are an animal that must create. To forget this is to be lost.
open.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It’s finally live: the culmination of years of personal deep spiritual and creative seeking, my whole heart, rolled into a manifesto.
If you’re a:
✨ creative
✨ mystic
✨ if you crave spiritual grounding
✨ if you’re all of the above
This letter is for you.
open.substack.com/pub/amayarou...
If you’re a:
✨ creative
✨ mystic
✨ if you crave spiritual grounding
✨ if you’re all of the above
This letter is for you.
open.substack.com/pub/amayarou...
Amazing how changing my focus toward something I 100% love and feel zero conflict towards doing, makes me more okay to be seen/known again.
100/10 on aligning existence with your values, highly recommend
100/10 on aligning existence with your values, highly recommend
August 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Amazing how changing my focus toward something I 100% love and feel zero conflict towards doing, makes me more okay to be seen/known again.
100/10 on aligning existence with your values, highly recommend
100/10 on aligning existence with your values, highly recommend
Back on my bullshit where I intensely long for the sea with every fiber of my being, waking, sleeping, and everything in between
And here I thought that tide had receded
And here I thought that tide had receded
a cliff overlooking a body of water with waves crashing on the shore .
ALT: a cliff overlooking a body of water with waves crashing on the shore .
media.tenor.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Back on my bullshit where I intensely long for the sea with every fiber of my being, waking, sleeping, and everything in between
And here I thought that tide had receded
And here I thought that tide had receded
On my mind this morning... It truly is bizarre
August 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
On my mind this morning... It truly is bizarre
SWOOON @racheldeering.bsky.social did the heron ask you to marry her after this?
‘a swindler, troubled and untroubled,
she loves and sleeps like a poet.’
‘The Night Heron’ from @racheldeering.bsky.social’s ‘In the Shadow of Gods’
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
she loves and sleeps like a poet.’
‘The Night Heron’ from @racheldeering.bsky.social’s ‘In the Shadow of Gods’
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
August 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
SWOOON @racheldeering.bsky.social did the heron ask you to marry her after this?
"We labor at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because to us it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from [themself]." - Nietzche
August 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"We labor at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because to us it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from [themself]." - Nietzche
My little avian metalhead 😍😍😍
July 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
My little avian metalhead 😍😍😍
The last time I experienced this was in 2017.
I was living near Carrick-On-Shannon (Ireland). A local man ran something similar to a musical thrift-shop with old instruments, 1000s of records + cassette tapes, books about music.
He made tea and chatted with us for 3 hours. It was pure magic.
I was living near Carrick-On-Shannon (Ireland). A local man ran something similar to a musical thrift-shop with old instruments, 1000s of records + cassette tapes, books about music.
He made tea and chatted with us for 3 hours. It was pure magic.
"They have removed the struggle to find anything. Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you'd go in this dusty old place and they might point you toward something that would change your life. All that's gone." - Tom Waits
July 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The last time I experienced this was in 2017.
I was living near Carrick-On-Shannon (Ireland). A local man ran something similar to a musical thrift-shop with old instruments, 1000s of records + cassette tapes, books about music.
He made tea and chatted with us for 3 hours. It was pure magic.
I was living near Carrick-On-Shannon (Ireland). A local man ran something similar to a musical thrift-shop with old instruments, 1000s of records + cassette tapes, books about music.
He made tea and chatted with us for 3 hours. It was pure magic.
Can scientists stop trying to reanimate extinct animals from bygone eras and instead figure out why we get barometric migraines and how to stop it? <--- I passionately whisper from a pitch black room
July 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Can scientists stop trying to reanimate extinct animals from bygone eras and instead figure out why we get barometric migraines and how to stop it? <--- I passionately whisper from a pitch black room
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“In a poem Gibson wrote shortly before they died, titled “Love Letter from the Afterlife,” they wrote: “Dying is the opposite of leaving. When I left my body, I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before.”
Poet Andrea Gibson, candid explorer of life, death and identity, dies at 49
Andrea Gibson, a celebrated poet and performance artist, has died at age 49. Their wife, Megan Falley, announced the news on Monday.
apnews.com
July 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“In a poem Gibson wrote shortly before they died, titled “Love Letter from the Afterlife,” they wrote: “Dying is the opposite of leaving. When I left my body, I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before.”
Andrea (Andrew) Gibson's death is hitting me like a ton of bricks 😭
July 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Andrea (Andrew) Gibson's death is hitting me like a ton of bricks 😭
Impatiently waiting for The Art of the Boy and the Heron to be published 😤
It's the biggest "Art of" book produced so far by Studio Ghibli, since it's Miyazaki's most personal work to date!
Digging deep into the evolution of Miyazaki's work is a personal passion of mine 😍
It's the biggest "Art of" book produced so far by Studio Ghibli, since it's Miyazaki's most personal work to date!
Digging deep into the evolution of Miyazaki's work is a personal passion of mine 😍
July 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Impatiently waiting for The Art of the Boy and the Heron to be published 😤
It's the biggest "Art of" book produced so far by Studio Ghibli, since it's Miyazaki's most personal work to date!
Digging deep into the evolution of Miyazaki's work is a personal passion of mine 😍
It's the biggest "Art of" book produced so far by Studio Ghibli, since it's Miyazaki's most personal work to date!
Digging deep into the evolution of Miyazaki's work is a personal passion of mine 😍
“The Otherworld is also much closer than we think; it... seeks relationship right where we are. It doesn’t care if you feel unworthy. All I know is that some of its tendrils live in myth, poetry, ritual, and the wild...”
- A Branch from the Lightning Tree, by Martin Shaw
- A Branch from the Lightning Tree, by Martin Shaw
July 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“The Otherworld is also much closer than we think; it... seeks relationship right where we are. It doesn’t care if you feel unworthy. All I know is that some of its tendrils live in myth, poetry, ritual, and the wild...”
- A Branch from the Lightning Tree, by Martin Shaw
- A Branch from the Lightning Tree, by Martin Shaw
“Nobody really wants to live a productive life. We want to express ourselves, connect with others, and explore the world. Productivity is just a means to those ends; it should certainly not come at the expense of actually living life.”
-- the book Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunffe
-- the book Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunffe
July 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“Nobody really wants to live a productive life. We want to express ourselves, connect with others, and explore the world. Productivity is just a means to those ends; it should certainly not come at the expense of actually living life.”
-- the book Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunffe
-- the book Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunffe
Woof the way this one hit 😭❤️🔥
‘moss clogging the holy well, rain
twitching ferns and the waves’
dark, surging knowings’
James McConachie’s ‘Bastón’ from ‘Consolamentum’. @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...
twitching ferns and the waves’
dark, surging knowings’
James McConachie’s ‘Bastón’ from ‘Consolamentum’. @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...
July 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Woof the way this one hit 😭❤️🔥
Let's be honest: gushing in brazen detail about art and media you love reciprocally is a 10/10 type of friendship
July 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Let's be honest: gushing in brazen detail about art and media you love reciprocally is a 10/10 type of friendship
Is there anything more vivifying than unabashedly falling in love with something new and being ever more delighted by what you discover?
July 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Is there anything more vivifying than unabashedly falling in love with something new and being ever more delighted by what you discover?
Headline: these two galaxy clusters are about to bash into each other--again 😱🤯💀
My animistic little brain: what if they're just falling in love and that's how they kiss and new stars are born? 🤩😍❤️🔥✨
My animistic little brain: what if they're just falling in love and that's how they kiss and new stars are born? 🤩😍❤️🔥✨
June 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Headline: these two galaxy clusters are about to bash into each other--again 😱🤯💀
My animistic little brain: what if they're just falling in love and that's how they kiss and new stars are born? 🤩😍❤️🔥✨
My animistic little brain: what if they're just falling in love and that's how they kiss and new stars are born? 🤩😍❤️🔥✨