“Artisan was an English vocal harmony trio from Yorkshire, England, who sang a cappella from 1985 to 2005. They consisted of songwriter Brian Bedford, his wife Jacey Bedford, and Hilary Spencer.”

I saw Artisan at the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival in Nova Scotia, Canada in 2012.  Their songs, their harmonies and their spirit are with me still.

Here’s a song that says it for me: I am all of it.  Perhaps you are too

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=pXZdHa7K-jY&feature=share

I am weak and I am strong
I am right and I am wrong
I am the river and the dam
I am woman ... I am man 

I am wicked, I am good
I am spirit, I am blood
I am the years that I must span
I am woman ... I am man

I am love and I am hate
I am chance and I am fate
I am the race, the one who ran
I am woman ... I am man

I am oppressor and oppressed
I am the worst that cursed the best
I am disorder and the plan
I am woman ... I am man

I am wisdom, I am fool
I am tender, I am cruel
I am nation, I am clan
I am woman ... I am man

I am weak and I am strong
I am right and I am wrong
I am the river and the dam
I am woman ... I am man

I am peace and I am war
I am virgin, I am whore
I am the fire, the flame, the fan
I am woman ... I am man

I am master, I am beast
I am famine, fast and feast
I am the dream, the word "I am"
I am woman ... I am man

I am bold, I am free
I am more, I am me
I am ruler, I am slave
I am birth ... I am the grave

I will end as I began
I am woman ... I am man