Hands of Creation

I pioneered the Transformational Art Program at Lincoln Child Center in 2006. This project is called the Hands of Creation. In this project I am honoring the child's creative abilities. I can only take portraits of my students hands because for protection of the child's identity. The children call the art room-the calm room. It is really a magical place were amazing things transpire.

First Eco Art of 2010- Tennessee Valley Cove, Mill Valley, CA

Created my first "Tree Shrine" of 2010.We had a nice trek to Tennessee Valley Cove, which is so beautiful. The views are extraordinary. We could not get onto the beach because a river had made its way to the ocean, blocking any bridges out to the beach.


I created the shrine around a rock and drift wood. The tree that had been submerged into the sea transforms into something ethereal. I felt really mindful and connected to the universe while creating this Eco Art.I woke up the next feeling balanced. I like this feeling!

Art Review

Caol’Ait
Lisa Rasmussen
11/7/08

Lisa poured out The Thin Places for all to see. And in her hand the bending spree, in wistful, flowing, calming traumic interface, the witness be. Thinness of distinction. Thinness of discrepancy. The space between, the space unseen, the space where the twilight and the knowing sheen, find in each other the harmonic mean.

Spices emanating upward from the nestled mandala-savory-space, lubricating the nostrils with memories chased from deeper places sight unseen. Light and scent (!), we enter the scene, diving in towards the hidden seam. Paintings cast in measured care, with wildness constrained by just the bare mounts in the frames ringing evenly the room, holding in each a lingering tune, of the place where spirit and thisness meet.

A lozenge for the eyes and mind. Symmetries nestled in fun-filled calling mysteries bind. Pneuma. Anasazi. Darknesses, incomplete, faint, whistling memories that you barely taste again. The deeper reaches of the mind, trickling away in kind. Lingering whispers haunting so, bartered through the colors claimed in Ka and Bardo, the journey from each piece to another bringing with it a glancing blow. A living, feeling, beautiful, explosion inward away from the evening glow.

Linearity in Lil, shocking still, organized and regal. Containment stressed on that thinness undressed thoroughly saturating the acrylic finesse of boundary and order on yet another sinking beckoning regress. Moving me back and out and around, to touch and caress, the space, the place, my girl’s soft press. The art, for me, is a seeping, see, from hand and thought outward, and in to me. The expressions from you are a simple plea, for a return, a dance, some part of me.

Art that inspires, art that plants a seed, art that pushes and bleeds.


-Cameron Thrash, 11/25/08

The Other Who Shares Your Name

Last weekend I had a very weird experience. I was waiting on a lady in the shoe store that I work at (weekend job). The place was closed and she was stressed and tried to make quick decisions. Her daughter was drawing and I commented on her beautiful use of colors. When she got to the register to pay, Raul my co-worker said you are paying for this? I said no and with curiosity looked at her name. Right before me was Lisa Rasmussen another Lisa Rasmussen. It was such a weird experience. Starring at someone who has you name... they are suddenly not a stranger. It is hard to explain.
Any of folks out there experienced this? Let me know your experience? it is trippy and kind of cosmic.

Self Portraits MOMA

Rite of Passage-Don's graduation--Sista Tree Shrine Circle Activated

This work was created on May 16th 2009 at Don's graduation party from BOALT in our garden. I had amazing helpers. Little Moziel, Auntie Bella, and Don's Mom. It was so cool. I got me convert 'tree hugger' with little Moziel. You must start early you know




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Sacred Sites in the Urban Jungle

Sacred Sites in downtown Oakland was an amazing collaboration with Lauren and my students from our workshop series at Art is Moving "CLICK HERE"
It was also an continuation of my own series of Eco Art, which I call "Tree Shrines," a site specific project that I want to take around the world.'CLICK HERE" to check out some of my sites.

For me this workshop class was about honoring the trees,that are killed and used by us. We had an amazing time as a class. We created art around dead trees, phone lines (telephone poles) that intrinsically connect all of us. The funny thing is my boyfriend suggested this a year ago as a joke. In translation I love honoring the dead.
Also, an important aspect of this project is the viewer. Cliche as it is "we want them to stop and smell the roses." or just to be conscious of their environment and how little things can make a big difference. As we were created these shrines many people who walked by were smiling! One homeless guy laughed and asked us if the steel pole Lauren and Patti were making into a tree would grow.
This project as a whole is the resurrection of panspsychism.

what does panspychism mean? "CLICK HERE"
For more research on this philosophy check out this amazing book from one of my professors at JFK Christen DeQuincy. He taught an amazing class called Paradigms of Consciousness. This book takes an in depth look at panspyschism Radical Nature: Rediscovering the Soul of Matter




Lauren and I will be doing a Eco-Trail in the Bay area this month. We will be making a call out to artists. If you want to join let us know. Also, our next workshop series will be starting soon. It is fun and inspiring. We invite all to join or drop in.
"CLICK HERE"

After this class, Sacred Sites in the Urban Jungle, I will never look at telephone poles the same way ever again.