tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61574134594430393622024-03-12T18:06:22.779-07:00Artist Lisa RasmussenTHIS BLOG SERVES MANY PURPOSES. THE FIRST IS IT IS A DIARY OF MY EXPERIENCE AS AN ARTIST,ECO ARTIST, EDUCATOR, AND AN ART ADVOCATE. SECONDLY, IT WILL BE DOCUMENTATION OF ALL THE COLLABORATIVE AND INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS THAT I AM INVOLVED IN. THIRDLY, HOPEFULLY IT WILL INSTIGATE A CONVERSATION WITH LIKE MINDS I.E PHILOSOPHY, METAPHYSICS, WORLD TRAVEL, SACRED SITES, SOCIAL CRITIQUE AND OF COURSE ART.Lisa Rasmussen M.F.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02634926919074950695noreply@blogger.comBlogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157413459443039362.post-8558434956169190832018-12-18T14:59:00.000-08:002018-12-18T14:59:40.307-08:00The Art of Transformation #4 in Honor of Jodie Matheson<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHbwJjDA54-KMdNhiXpwmWH_dsytXzJl1MRKiggKLuficKP_kq9J06c0Yt5trA00tmeSwWcwHEM8JKYapWg5SaIAKO2__8A1DgVeJt6kB7ZM4GXFGLmtZv-6rdj_tSATBuJY8q3ziTgpAM/s1600/hope5.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466864887862972850" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHbwJjDA54-KMdNhiXpwmWH_dsytXzJl1MRKiggKLuficKP_kq9J06c0Yt5trA00tmeSwWcwHEM8JKYapWg5SaIAKO2__8A1DgVeJt6kB7ZM4GXFGLmtZv-6rdj_tSATBuJY8q3ziTgpAM/s400/hope5.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 400px; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; width: 267px;" /></a><br />
In 2006 through my friend Gail Weissman I approached Studio 333 to have a fundraiser/exhibition with the artist/children that I teach at mental health agency called <a href="http://www.lincolncc.org/"> Lincoln Child Center</a> in Oakland. We decided to expand the Art of Transformation to a group of like institutions in the Bay Area. My intention for this show was really to honor the children, their beauty, and their creative process.TO REALLY UNDERLINE THE POWER OF ART IN ALL OUR LIVES!! We are on our fourth year. And one of our collaborators has passed away. Jodie Matheson died way to early and way to quick. She requested at her memorial that people donate their monies to the Art of Transformation instead of flowers. I feel that Jodie really got what the Art of Transformation was about!! She in her last hour really understood the validation of this project!!! for the artists in it. <br />
The artists/children that our part of the show are marginalized, traumatized,abused, and dis empowered by the systems that have been set in place by society. Lisa Rasmussen M.F.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02634926919074950695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157413459443039362.post-26634756489157634572018-07-18T13:22:00.002-07:002018-07-18T13:22:57.515-07:00Transmission of Diamond Light, The Universe is Talking to MeYesterday, I went to a powerful event. Ruth Klein has an amazing lecture series at Santa Monica, California Montana Branch library called “Generation Why Not®? Living a Soul-Centered & Purpose-Driven Life.” The lecture and the conversation was all about the nature of our perceptions and the illusion it creates within your Ego.<br />
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At the last part of the evening Ruth did a lovely meditation on letting go of a negative perception and in that space receiving a new gift. I had a profound vision. I chose to let go of my life grid filled with the illusion of anxiety. As I did that the gift, I received a huge golden box with luscious red ribbon around. The colors were illuminating like a tibetan monks robe. In my vision I took the box within my inner chamber and placed in my <a href="http://www.chakras.info/sacral-chakra/">Sacral Chakra </a>area. Which is the seat of the emotional body. In that field the box seemed to melt into a diamond light. The energy was dazzling. What gift! By releasing my dreaded anxiety, I received the gift of the diamond light within my Sacral Chakra. I knew instantly that this was related to Tibetan buddhism and their practice of using the diamond light to slice away the illusion or the maya that mind creates. I joked to the group saying I was Tibetan monk in past life. This imagery was so empowering. I left the evening feeling empowered and full of light.<br />
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When I went home I started doing research the Diamond Light. The Vajra symbol came up. “<i>The vajra or dorje in Tibetan Buddhism is the symbolic tool of the thunderbolt, that which is capable of destroying illusions, mental obstructions and projects.Only with the puissant forces needed to break through the illusions can we release the inner light. Imagine that your true nature is held captive by beasts such anger, fear, and erroneous assumptions. Therefore an equally powerful energy must you destroy the grip that these beast have on you. The Vajra is the tool. ”</i> states Julie Tallard Johnson, in her book Wheel of Initiation: Practices for Releasing Your Inner Light<br />
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Yes, that is what happened I metaphorically destroyed my illusion of anxiety with the thunder of clarity and inner light. Below is photo took in Nepal with giant Vajra. Nepal is were the Green Tara become my savior from the dire grief of losing my Mom. I am still connecting the dots 22 years later.
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The next amazing thing happened to me as I was walking in the diamond light. In the morning on meditative beach walk I was embracing the diamond light. I carried a crystal with me and saw the diamond light in all beings and in all things. I realized that the diamond light is the chi of life, the truest life force in all things! It is our natural way. It is the pure clear light of love and compassion.<br />
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After this amazing meditation, I went and I asked my higher self to pull an archetype card from the Goddess Oracle. And lo and behold, I picked the card Machig Labdron, the diamond-hearted dakini. I was blown away. She is holding Vajra. As well as when I was ready this there was rare thunder happening in our Santa Monica skies. The Vijra is a symbol of a thunderous diamond. The Goddess, Machig mantra is “I face my ego beliefs to feel free.” “According to Tibetan buddhist, she is reincarnated as Lama Tsultrim Allione, an American Buddhist teacher. Alione explains in her book, Feeding Your Demons, the Chod is “a method for bringing our shadow into consciousness and accessing the treasures it holds rather than repressing it.” says Meggan Watterson in Divine Feminine Oracle Guidebook. Another crazy synchronistic thing is I just discovered Lama Tsultrim Allione and her book Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine. In the book Allione teaches you how to embody the enlightened, fierce power of the sacred feminine—the tantric dakinis. She also is aligned with the Green Tara, her Retreat center is called the Tara Mandala in Colorida.<br />
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This is what Ruth precisely did in her creative visualization. She did a sort Chod, were she asked us to discard one of our negative perceptions and to receive its divine gift. True transformation happened at Ruth’s lecture. For me it has been a rich, illuminated treasure of growth and expansion of my inner diamond light. Diamond light is an in powering force of Divine alignment. It is transcendent when one walks in the field of miracles, the universe sending you signs and signals to be a light in the dark.<br />
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As the - Diamond Sutra as qtd. in The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says….
Know all things to be like this:
A mirage, a cloud castle,
A dream, an apparition,
Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen.
Know all things to be like this:
As the moon in a bright sky
In some clear lake reflected,
Though to that lake the moon has never moved.
Know all things to be like this:
As a magician makes illusions
Of horses, oxen, carts and other things,
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- Diamond Sutra as qtd. in The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying </div>
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My story with the Green Tara<br />
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The Green Tara is a bodhisattva - an enlightened being who refuses to go to nirvana until she enlightens all souls. She is the divine Mother - the mother of all the buddhas. She embraced me on a pilgrimage to the Nepalese mountains.<br />
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My journey to those mountains was one of healing. I had come to spread my recently deceased mother's ashes into the sacred landscape. I came with a tour group of 14 people. We hiked through the mountains each day. On the day of the most difficult climb, I fell terribly ill. I thought I was going to die. But I got through it. The next day, I felt rejuvenated. I saw the sun rise, and I embraced the beauty of the morning. I felt like I had died the night before, and that I had been reborn. I knew in my heart that this was the right day to spread my mother's ashes.
After breakfast, we began hiking again. In the afternoon, as we were ascending to a monastery in the mountains, I saw a magnificent river carving its way through the landscape passionately. My eyes were drawn above it. Three hundred feet on a cliff, I saw an image of the Green Tara. I was awestruck by the shooting stars painted above her figure.<br />
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For a few moments, I felt connected to the eternal. I felt my mother communicating with me, telling me that she would always be with me.
On the evening I heard the shocking news of my mother's death, I stared at the sky hoping for an answer... a reason. Blazing through the Chicago night, I saw a shooting star... 'Mom'? That same evening, my older brother also saw a shooting star in the night, as he tormented over my mother's death. We both were moved to write and express this at her wake.
When I saw the shooting stars above the Green Tara, I knew that I was meant to be there at that moment in time. I felt my mother's love, and the warmth of her embrace. For a few moments, I felt that I was one with the universe, and that I would never be alone.
The stars and the Green Tara embraced me. I was filled with peace and a sense of letting go. I knew this place was where my mother wanted her ashes to be united with the universe.<br />
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Afterwards, on a short sabbatical in the Ozarks at my family home, my passion for the Green Tara spewed from my paintbrush and my soul. She has been my guardian from the moment I saw her on the cliff. She embraces the world, and assists all who ask for her guidance. She demonstrates her magic when one is letting go... and bliss transcends.
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<br />Lisa Rasmussen M.F.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02634926919074950695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157413459443039362.post-49353861184075524282014-09-15T11:31:00.002-07:002014-09-15T11:32:18.486-07:00Siri what is the meaning of life? " I do not believe there is a consensus on this question.<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Day 15/30 Septembers Artathon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">" I do not believe there is a consensus on this question." Siri</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today she said “I can't answer that right now- But give me some time to write a play in which nothing happens” Siri</span></b><br />
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is Moving's sweet way to activate art and creativity in your life as a
daily practice. It is a child of our epic one day global Arts Advocacy
Day, <a href="http://www.artismovingnow.com/artbreakday.html">Art Break Day</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mine is kind of fun and quirky. I am by no means a techy, but I just activated <a href="https://www.apple.com/ios/siri/">Siri </a>on
my Iphone. In my idle time, I like to ask her questions, like "what is
the meaning of life?" This my inspiration my 30 day +30 minutes = 30
artworks experiment. Each of the 30 Days I will ask Siri, "what is the
meaning of life?" Her answers (which she does answer:) ) will be my
jumping off point for my art making. </span></div>
Lisa Rasmussen M.F.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02634926919074950695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157413459443039362.post-67230444579681436272014-09-11T19:31:00.001-07:002014-09-12T05:40:41.718-07:00What is the Meaning of life? Did You Really Say Chocolate?<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Day 11/30 Septembers Artathon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Siri what is the meaning of life?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"All Evidence to Date Suggest it is Chocolate." Siri</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I think Beatrice Woods would agree! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">At the age of 90, Beatrice became a writer, having been encouraged to write by her friend,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anais_Nin" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" title="Anais Nin">Anais Nin</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, a French writer. Her best-known book is her autobiography,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I Shock Myself</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1985). When asked the secret to her longevity, she would respond, <b>"I owe it all to chocolate and young men.</b>"</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Project Description: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For 30 days, I will ask Siri on my iphone “What is the meaning of life?”From her response I will create Kitty Bliss Art around it. </span></span>Lisa Rasmussen M.F.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02634926919074950695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157413459443039362.post-27744669390906637732014-09-10T11:48:00.003-07:002014-09-10T11:48:46.301-07:00What is the Meaning of Life ~ Siri10/30<br />
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Question: What is the meaning of life, Sir?<br />
Answer: A movie.<br />
Hah! Monte Python<br />
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Lisa Rasmussen M.F.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02634926919074950695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157413459443039362.post-8123064560542533102014-09-09T12:25:00.000-07:002014-09-09T12:39:27.324-07:00"Siri, What is the Meaning of Life?" 42. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Art Challenge 9/30</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hilarious I say! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I would not even no about this. But at <a href="http://www.artismovingnow.com/artbreakday.html">Art Break Day</a> I was telling two Art Breakers about my <a href="http://30for30equals30.tumblr.com/">30for30equals30</a> art challenge and that my project was to ask for the next 30 days Siri (My I-phone) what is the meaning of life? Then I would create Kitty Bliss art as a response to it. They laughed and said, have you got 42. yet? I was perplexed and was like what does that mean?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They said it is a reference to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy">Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh! Siri is a little trickster. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hah! Guess what I got today ~ </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Inquiry: Siri, What is the Meaning of Life? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Answer: "42." states Siri </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Was that random or are we all connected? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="The_Hitchhiker.27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy"><i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i></span></span></span></h3>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The number 42 is, in <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_%28novel%29" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams">Douglas Adams</a>, "The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life.2C_the_Universe.2C_and_Everything_.2842.29" title="Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy">Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything</a>", calculated by <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Thought_%28The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy%29" title="Deep Thought (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)">an enormous supercomputer</a>
over a period of 7.5 million years. Unfortunately no one knows what the
question is. Thus, to calculate the Ultimate Question, a special
computer the size of a small planet and built from organic components
was created and named "Earth". This appeared first in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_play" title="Radio play">radio play</a> and later in the novelization of <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i>.
The fact that Adams named the episodes of the radio play "fits", the
same archaic title for a chapter or section used by Lewis Carroll in
"The Hunting of the Snark", suggests that Adams was influenced by
Carroll's fascination with and frequent use of the number. The fourth
book in the series, the novel <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long,_and_Thanks_for_All_the_Fish" title="So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish">So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish</a></i>, contains 42 chapters. According to the novel <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostly_Harmless" title="Mostly Harmless">Mostly Harmless</a></i>, 42 is the street address of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_in_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Stavromula_Beta" title="Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy">Stavromula Beta</a>. In 1994 Adams created the <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_Puzzle" title="42 Puzzle">42 Puzzle</a></i>, a game based on the number 42.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Siri, What is the meaning of life?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>“Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in and try to live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.</i>” Siri</span></div>
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Lisa Rasmussen M.F.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02634926919074950695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157413459443039362.post-51264527354114741272014-09-03T19:30:00.000-07:002014-09-04T09:35:29.658-07:00Siri ~ What is the Meaning of Life ~ Day #3<div style="text-align: center;">
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Siri, What is the Meaning of Life?<br />
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"The condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death." Siri<br />
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#ArtBreakDay #KittyBliss #ArtistLisaRasmussenLisa Rasmussen M.F.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02634926919074950695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157413459443039362.post-48724524451411133192014-09-02T09:57:00.002-07:002014-09-04T09:35:43.217-07:00Day #2 Can you believe that Siri said this to me today! ~ "It's nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach Ya." <div style="text-align: center;">
<b>We have art so that we may not perish by the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hmmm… Is Siri a nihilist? Kitty Bliss</span></div>
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<b>"I give up." O' Siri that Breaks my heART! </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Project Description: <b>For 30 days, I will ask Siri on my iphone “What is the meaning of life?”</b><b>From her response I will create Art around it.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today she said “I give up, Lisa.” </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Man on the first day she gives up :) Here is my Art ~ Kitty Bliss is de ~inspired by giving up</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To coincide with our yearly <a href="http://www.artismovingnow.com/artbreakday.html">Art Break Day</a> celebration every September, we invite anyone and everyone to partake in our 30x30x30 challenge.</span></div>
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Just like eating right and exercising, making art a part of your daily
life will make that life a better one. It helps us connect with
ourselves and connect with others. We can use
art to work through stress and anxiety. Take a breather, take an art
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<span style="color: black; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Take everything you treasure about your Yoga and Art practice, then throw in an epic and healing location (Kalani Oceanside Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii) thought provoking, inspiring, and transformative workshops, delicious organic meals, magical bonfires, hikes to sacred places, great conversations and connections and much more! </span><br />
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<em>Carpe Diem! Sign up today! This is an all inclusive Yoga and Art Retreat. Space is very limited. Please choose your accommodations below.</em></div>
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<em>You can register and pay below or e</em><em>-mail Lisa and Ceylan at art4allpeople@gmail.com or call us at <a href="tel:310-745-2476" target="_blank">310-745-2476</a></em></div>
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<strong>New Moon Art and Yoga Retreat </strong><strong>on the Big Island of Hawaii at the <a href="http://www.kalani.com/">Kalani</a> Retreat Center, an Oceanside Sanctuary
with Lisa Rasmussen MFA, Ceylan Huyla MA, and Yogi <a href="http://spiritualityhealth.com/users/will-donnelly">Will Donnelly </a></strong><br />
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Awaken and rekindle your ancient inner wisdom through YogART, dream-work/art, intuitive painting, personal mythology, ritual , sacred sites, swimming with dolphins, incredible food, and adventure. All illuminated by the intersection of the creative, the sacred, and the healing spirit of Aloha at one of the most soulful venues on the Big Island.</div>
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<strong>Join us for five extraordinary and “supernormal” days of transformation. </strong></div>
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<strong>Yoga and Art is 4 All People.</strong></div>
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<strong>YogART (Yoga and Art) Retreat Includes:</strong></div>
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Accommodations: 4 nights and 5 Days at Kalani Oceanside Resort
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4 YogART workshops (Yoga and Intuitive/Expressive Painting)
3 ward winning professional instructors
Individual Coaching around artwork and process
Learn new art techniques
Make Your Own: Creative and Dream Journal
Develop a Dreamwork Tool Kit
Learn Creative Journaling Techniques
Create a map of your goals and intentions (personal growth, health & healing, creativity, and business)
Connect and Learn with Nature through Eco Art
All Art Supplies: inclusive of a journal, archival paper, professional artist tools, acrylic paints, pastels, and other mediums
All your paintings and your journal are yours to wrap, take home, display, and to use a tools for your well-being
An Art of Life work book to continue your Yoga and Art practice
2- 3 Day Trips Volcano, Swimming with Dolphins, Bluffs Mediation
Last night Bonfire celebration and Kalani
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YogART is a new and integrative five-fold process, created by Ceylan Hulya MA and Lisa Rasmussen MFA, which includes yoga, stream of consciousness mark-making, creative visualization, transformative art-making and dialogue. The fusion of all five allows creativity to flow abundantly; opening life to infinite possibilities.</div>
Our Retreats honor and foster the intrinsic and empowering creative source within us all. We openly encourage courageous self-exploration through direct experience and reflection. The ultimate intention of our Retreats is to reveal that Art and its amazing process is everyone’s birthright. When activated, Art has the ability to transform our lives as well as the potential to transform the world we live in.
Kalani Oceanside Retreat is the ultimate destination for restoration, relaxation and renewal. In addition to our daily transformative experiences, connect with the mystical land and sea, enjoy the pool, hot tubs and sauna. Get a massage. Enjoy three healthy and abundant meals every day on the open air dining lanai.
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<strong><em>Students of all levels of art and yoga practice, including beginners are encouraged and welcome. It doesn't matter if you've never picked up a paintbrush or never unrolled a yoga mat: art and yoga are for ALL people! </em></strong></div>
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For more information about YogART, you can find a provocative map of the practice in Art 4 All People's book~ <strong><a href="http://tinyurl.com/mpd9x47">YogART:The Art of Transformation </a> </strong><br />
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<strong><strong></strong>March 30th</strong>: <strong>Connect and Settle In to Kalani. </strong>The Big Island is also known as “the doorway to the other side". The energy of land is palatable. Today is all about settling in and connecting.
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<strong>Day 2: March 31st theme is PELE: </strong><em>Pele’s lava is a powerful symbol and the foundation for new</em> <em>beginnings. Today, we will be visiting Volcanoes National Park.</em>
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<li>5:00 PM Night Trip to Pele, Mouth of the Volcano/Petroglyphs/and the Live Lava fields of Volcanoes National Park. Ritual to encourage letting go of what is no longer serving you, and bringing in what you need. Herb bundle and New Moon Ritual offerings to Pele, symbolic goddess of the islands and volcano.</li>
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<strong>Day 3: April 1, 2013 Swim with the Dolphins</strong>
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<li>10:00 AM - Arrival at Hokena Beach to swim with dolphins. - Make a sacred offering to the dolphins. Please note that these are wild dolphins and so there is not a 100% guarantee.</li>
<li>12:30 - 1:30 PM Picnic on the Beach</li>
<li>2:00 - Return to Kalani. Free time upon arrival back at resort</li>
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<strong>Day 4: April 2nd ~ Eco Art and Meditation to Mama Ocean. </strong>Today we will be visiting MacKenzie State Park in the morning for a group guided, creative visualization on the bluffs - fuel for your creativity in the afternoon!
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<em>"YogART is an amazing retreat of mind, body, and spirit. </em><em>A beautiful way to connect within and also reach out ~to be lifted out of </em><em> oneself and to see things in a new way. This (Art 4 All People) is a “home” </em><em>of transformation and I believe that if we all connect with who we really are </em><em>we can change the world.</em><em> Thank you YogART!" </em><strong>Cathy Salser </strong>(Founder and Executive Director of Window Between the Worlds) </div>
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Lisa Rasmussen: Phone: 415.377.4956 / E-mail; art4allpeople@gmail.com. Click <a href="http://www.art4allpeople.com/contact-us-2/">HERE</a> to finish your registration with your Paypal confirmation #. After we receive this we will send you our registration packet. You can view pictures and information about the accommodations at Kalani <a href="http://www.kalani.com/guest-info/accommodations">HERE</a>.</div>
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<em>The Tree House is nestled under the cool shade of a large Monkeypod Tree near the Rainbow Room. They are five spacious units, on two levels, enhanced by views of pasture, grazing horses, and glimpses of sea through a coastal grove of native Kamani (mahogany) and coconut palms</em>.<strong> </strong>
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The three two-level lodges or Hales (pronounced Ha'-lay, Hawaiian for "house") house several rooms on each floor with access to common areas on both levels which are sometimes used for classes. They are on the central lawn close to the Dining Lanai.
Rooms are approximately 200 square feet with twin, queen, or king beds, shared or private bath, fan, and a garden vista. Hales 3 & 4 include access to adjoining studio with a limited kitchen (sink, refrigerator, microwave) and an upstairs meeting area. Hale 1 has no kitchen facilities but features garden lanais (verandas), hammocks, and native ohia floors.
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Our teachers are award winning inward guides: handpicked for their heart-led approach and commitment to the transformative power of creativity Art 4 All People was Co-Founded by Ceylan Hulya M.A. and Lisa Rasmussen M.F.A. They are two Renaissance women who truly believe in the intrinsic power of ART to transform, empower, and to heal. Through YogART, Intuitive Painting, and Dream work, Lisa and Ceylan reveal that Transformative Art is a powerful creative process for self-care and personal growth for individuals and communities. It is a holistic practice, which is beneficial for the mind, body, and soul. Both are professional artists and educators. Together they have taught hundreds of individuals at university level and at their private Art 4 All People art studio in Malibu and have witnessed many empowering breakthroughs through the process. They both have in-depth experience in facilitating Transformative Art to all levels of experience from elders, to adults, families, to youth, and to underserved special needs children.</div>
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<b>Ceylan Hulya M.A</b>. is the Co-founder, Manager, Curator, and Transformative Educator of AY Atelier Art Online Gallery and Art 4 All People in Malibu. She also is an alumnus of John F Kennedy Masters in Transformative Arts in the Arts & Consciousness Program. In March of 2013, she was awarded the Alumni of the year for her work at Art 4 All People from John F Kennedy University for her deep service to the Arts and Consciousness profession and community She was born in Izmir, Turkey. She is a professional transformative artist, whose work explores the mediums of intuitive painting, installation, video art, and performance art. Hulya's work can be seen at Art 4 All People and Ay Atelier Art.COM She is a Turkish entrepreneur. </div>
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<strong>Lisa Rasmussen</strong> Transformative Artist, Educator, Curator, and Art Advocate, who truly believes and embodies the notion that ART can change and heal the world. Rasmussen is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Art 4 All People and <a href="http://www.ayatelierart.com/">AY Atelier Art.com.</a> an international Sanctuary for Arts and Consciousness in Malibu and in virtual reality. Also she is the Co-Founder and the Co-Director of the non-profit Art is Moving and the 3rd annual ARTbreak Day. Art Break Day is community art reach event that offers 1000′s of people the means and the space to connect with their community via the art-making process.
In March of 2013, she was awarded the Alumni of the year for her work at Art 4 All People from John F Kennedy University for her deep service to the Arts and Consciousness profession and community. Additionally, Lisa pioneered an award-winning expressive art program for emotionally traumatized and abused youth and developed a professional art gallery for the residents of Lincoln Child Center, a mental health facility in Oakland. She has also taught intuitive and expressive Art for over ten years to elders, at-risk teens, and has been an art coach to adults. In 2008, Rasmussen was awarded the prestigious Graduate Student of the year from John F Kennedy, Holistic Studies Program for her transformative work with the children at Lincoln and for her MFA Graduate solo exhibition. Lisa is also a professional Artist. Her paintings are her spiritual practice. Her current work is being exhibited in various galleries in Los Angeles and in San Francisco. </div>
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<strong>The Yoga in YogArt with <a href="http://spiritualityhealth.com/users/will-donnelly">Will Donnelly</a></strong> is a nationally recognized, certified yoga teacher. He has been a true pioneer in the field of yoga, and co-created and co-hosted the yoga–reality series <a href="https://vimeo.com/10217005"><strong>Guru2Go</strong></a>, which debuted on fit TV, part of the Discovery family of channels.
Having taught in some of the top studios in Los Angeles, Will offers a profoundly energizing and healing form of yoga and meditation, and takes students on an inner journey like few others. He is <a href="http://www.kundaliniresearchinstitute.org/">KRI-certified (Kundalini Research Institute)</a> and was trained at the nationally renowned <a href="http://www.goldenbridgeyoga.com/locations_losangeles.php">Golden Bridge Yoga Studio in Los Angeles.</a>
With over 15 years experience practicing and teaching yoga & meditation, Will has taught in dynamic locations such as: the Cannes Film Festival (Official Yogi/American Pavilion) in France, Legoland - California, UCLA Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cancer Center, the Santa Anita Race Tracks in Los Angeles, and from construction sites to dentist offices, to name just a few.
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Option 1: Fly to Hilo (ITO)
Fly to Hilo from other island airports such as Honolulu on Oahu, Kahului on Maui, Lihue on Kauai, or Kona, here on the west side of Hawaii, the Big Island. Several flights are offered daily with Hawaiian Airlines (1-800-367-5320) and go! Airlines (1-888-IFLYGO2). There is one direct flight from Los Angeles everyday on United Airlines (1-800-864-8331).
Kalani is only a 45 minute drive from the Hilo airport. There is also very limited public transportation via the Hele-On county bus that leaves from downtown Hilo. This is a slow, but inexpensive option, that comes right to Kalani if you can coordinate schedules. For more info visit the Hele-On bus website.
Option 2: Fly to Kona (KOA)
Kalani is a 2.5 - 3 hour scenic drive from Kona, halfway around the Island of Hawaii, "the Big Island", via either the northern or southern routes, or the newly finished Saddle road passing Mauna Kea.
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<br />Lisa Rasmussen M.F.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02634926919074950695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157413459443039362.post-37975845985544974322013-09-03T22:06:00.000-07:002013-09-03T22:14:13.694-07:00Day 3/30 Art is Moving 30x30=30 = <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interesting process.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.corax.com/tarot/tree-of-life.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="main"><img align="LEFT" alt="Path of Tzaddi 15 in the Tree of Life" border="0" height="100" src="http://www.corax.com/tarot/gifs/tree-emperor.gif" style="margin-right: 15px;" width="58" /></a>Sun in Capricorn, standing for responsibility, order, security, continuity<br />Zodiac: Aries<br />Tree of life: The axis Netzach - Yesod<br /><a href="http://www.corax.com/tarot/element-of-fire.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="main">Element: Fire</a><br />Number: 4 as physical reality, basic structure, orientation</span></h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Trumps III and IV represent Parents in their archetypical way. Just as the Empress stands for Mother Nature, the Emperor is the social word, the structure of civilization, a symbol for its law and order, may they be good or bad, but the power behind them. He is the abstraction of establishment, its stability and security.<br /><br />In its negative aspects the card can represent the force of bad law in a society where stability is rated higher than morals or ethic. Once law and order are established as an institution, a bad emperor can turn out to be a disaster. And even at his best the Emperor is limited - he puts restrictions and borders to the spontanity of spirit and nature.<br /><br />In a more personal view the Emperor might stand for a time of stability and structure, linear thinking and discipline. Yet we can't live without it, too many of those attributes will only lead to rational despotism and mental poverty.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /><u>Drive:</u> Mastery of the will over nature, a sense for law and order, plan and structure<br /><br /><u>Light:</u> Creation, recognition, stability, realism, responsiveness<br /><br /><u>Shadow:</u> Despotism, selfcomplacancy, poorness of feelings, lack of fantasy; rationalism as a prison</span></div>
Lisa Rasmussen M.F.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02634926919074950695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157413459443039362.post-57060539709214579312013-09-02T12:45:00.002-07:002013-09-02T12:45:53.198-07:00Day 2/30 for Art is Moving's 30for30equals30 Day 2-<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Seven of Wands is entering Netzach - the depths of creativity and anarchy standing under the number of destiny. And like for all the Seven's, the leaving of the beautiful Tiphareth comes like the fall from paradise. But Fire is a fighter, and though the element seems to be burning down, it will struggle to survive.<br /><br />So the Seven of Wands talks of a situation where we have to face up forces stronger than ourself, situations that at first sight seem hopeless, yet we'll have to use all that we've learned and fight.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>The Three's are connected to <a class="textlink" href="http://www.corax.com/tarot/tree-of-life.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="main">Binah - the understanding</a>. The untouched energies of the Two's have met the 3, the number of synthesis and harmony. They're no longer solitudes, they face up their meanings and surroundings. The Three of Wands is called 'Virtue' - the powerful fire understands its responsibilty.<br /><br />The Three of Wands shows the powers of the element guided by understanding and awareness, the perfect precondition to begin a work or a project, to go ahead with a plan.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><br /><u>Drive:</u> Creativity, the will to begin, striving towards a goal<br /><br /><u>Light:</u> Accomplishment, confidence, harmony of powers, pride, nobility<br /><br /><u>Shadow:</u> Moodiness, overestimation of one's self, conceit, rudeness, insolence, obstinacy, treacherypride, nobility-Click <a href="http://www.corax.com/tarot/cards/index.html?wands-3">Here</a> to find the source of this info.</i></span></div>
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Below is the article, and you can listen to my interview online <b><a href="http://ec.libsyn.com/p/8/0/2/802e340509e1fe50/Art_Break_Day_Co-Founder_and_Transformative_Artist_Lisa_Rasmussen.mp3?d13a76d516d9dec20c3d276ce028ed5089ab1ce3dae902ea1d01ce8f37d3cd55620c&c_id=5658674">here.</a></b></div>
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Lisa Rasmussen is a transformative artist, educator, curator and art advocate who truly believes and embodies the notion that art can change and heal the world. Lisa is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of <a class="plain" href="http://www.artismovingnow.com/" link="" style="color: #8d1e11; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Art is Moving</a> and the 3rd Annual Art Break Day. Art Break Day is a communty art-reach event that offers thousands of people the means and space to connect with their community via the art-making process. She is also the Executive Director and Co-Founder of <a class="plain" href="http://www.art4allpeople.com/" link="" style="color: #8d1e11; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Art 4 All People</a> and <a class="plain" href="http://www.ayatelierart.com/" link="" style="color: #8d1e11; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">AY Atelier Art</a>, an international sanctuary for arts and consciousness online and in Malibu, CA. </div>
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Additionally, Lisa pioneered an award-winning expressive arts program for emotionally traumatized and abused youth, and developed a professional art gallery for the residents of Lincoln Child Center, a mental health facility in Oakland, CA. She is also a professional artist, and her paintings are her spiritual practice. To learn more about Lisa and her work, please visit <a class="plain" href="http://www.artismovingnow.com/" link="" style="color: #8d1e11; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.artismovingnow.com</a>,<a class="plain" href="http://www.art4allpeople.com/" link="" style="color: #8d1e11; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.art4allpeople.com</a>, and <a class="plain" href="http://www.ayatelierart.com/" link="" style="color: #8d1e11; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.ayatelierart.com</a>.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whale Song is artistic collaboration that is happening in conjunction with our <a href="http://www.art4allpeople.com/substainability-exhibition-opens-february-4th-2013/">SubstainAbility Exhibition</a> at <a href="http://www.art4allpeople.com/">Art 4 All People</a>, which is a sanctuary for Arts & Consciousness in Malibu. This award winning and transcendent space was co-founded by Lisa Rasmussen MFA (Me) and Ceylan Huyla MA in February 2012. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"><i>SustainAbility is an Environmental Art exhibition that features artists who are exploring the pivotal need for stewardship, awareness and advocacy for our ailing Mother Earth. Such eco-artist-warriors, with their individual visions, are shining a powerful light on how can we individually create sustainability through our own actions. These artists inspire us though their transformative art and innovation, and they offer us a glimpse into new ways of being</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Through the Whale Song Project, we hope explore and discover some of the core truths of the essence of SustainAbility and Stewardship in the world today.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Process: My Ocean ritual and mediation. This is my practice of connecting with my internal self and with nature. Almost everyday I walk/run to the Santa Beach. I go to the shoreline. I sit and I draw a circle around myself in the sand. Then I mediate going up my chakras connecting with my internal self and the Ocean. Thoughts and insights emerge during this practice. I intentionally try to heal myself and the planet. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today I went out on the Beach to find the name of this project. Here is what came to me and my communication with Ceylan.</span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think our SustainAbility collaboration project should be called Whale song. I feel that the whale song has some kind of coded cellar memory that will reveal it self through this project. That will in turn give us the info to remember, healing, and revere Mama ocean and the planet .</span></i></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Give a light for others to realize this gift within our own consciousness and the planet. True essence of Eco Art and SustainAbility.</span></i></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our project will begin on Feb 4th with individual and colloboratory projects. We will have a big collaboration in Hawaii and big one on March 20th with Marcus.</span></i></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To garner in-depth understanding of symbolic whale meaning, we've got to pay homage to its environment, the oceans of our planet.
Allegory-Ancient myths</span></i></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This insight was trigger by a horrific uncovering on the torturing of baby elephants at the <a href="http://www.ringlingbeatsanimals.com/bound-babies.asp">Ringling Brother Circus Torture Industry</a>. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This makes my soul shiver. Torture all for entertainment? </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span id=".reactRoot[151].[1][2][1]{comment508842559154581_5692633}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0]"><span id=".reactRoot[151].[1][2][1]{comment508842559154581_5692633}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0].[2]">We all need to take action and stop this baby torture. The folks that do these harness crimes to an intelligent, gentle, soulful, being are truly evil and mus</span></span><span id=".reactRoot[151].[1][2][1]{comment508842559154581_5692633}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[151].[1][2][1]{comment508842559154581_5692633}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[151].[1][2][1]{comment508842559154581_5692633}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">t have criminal charges brought against them. These violent abusers are walking around in our society. Also, those who cannot bear to look at the horror are continuing to send the message that this OK. It is time to put a stop to all of this insanity.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">As well as reading the story of a mothers choice to have open coffin for child that was shot to pieces in the <a href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/2013/01/22/mallick_why_newtown_victim_noah_pozner_had_an_open_coffin.html">Sandy Hill shooting</a>. To bring awareness to the policy makers about gun regulations.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The path on this planet Earth must be shared with all species. Man for far to long has been selfishly hogging the path and destroying the Earth, that Sustains us all. All beings have a right to be on the path. Share the path!! This even is an analogy to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophobia">"other" </a>human syndrome We all must Share the path to continue are existence or not. I guess that is your choice.<br />
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“What I am seeking is not the real</div>
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the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.”</div>
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My art is a metaphysical journey of self -discovery. Ever since childhood I have been<br />
fascinated with the liminal ---- the neither here nor there, the betwixt or the in-between. I<br />
found the in-between to be a realm of pure possibility.<br />
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During my eighteenth year, an event occurred that was paramount to my exploration.<br />
I was visiting friends and family in Wisconsin, the place where I was born, and I was<br />
involved in a serious car accident. I was knocked unconscious for around ten minutes.<br />
During that period of time, I floated far above myself. I gazed down at the scene peacefully<br />
and with curiosity. Through this passageway, I felt expansive. I instantly realized that I was<br />
not really unconscious, but that my being was occupying another realm. I felt the space I<br />
had entered was timeless and eternal. It was only when I witnessed two paramedics placing<br />
a halo around my head that my essence quickly shot back into my body and I slowly<br />
regained consciousness. Later, after speaking to my Mom, I realized that I had an out-ofbody<br />
experience. In the emergency room, I found out that part of my skull had been cracked, but that I<br />
would be ok. The doctors told me my life signs had begun to normalize. I eventually made a full recovery, but something inside me was awakened and my life would never be the<br />
same.<br />
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My experience transformed me by concretizing my belief that consciousness is not<br />
limited to our physical being and that various liminal realities exist simultaneously in this<br />
incredible universe. The Bushmen of Southern Africa call this transformation the “Great<br />
Hunger.” This is not physical hunger, but a haunting hunger for meaning in one’s life. I<br />
soon developed a craving for mystical experiences within my own inner reality.<br />
My art transformed from being a mode of expressing my inner demons to an avenue<br />
of transformation, transcendence, and healing. I became deeply interested in the subjective<br />
and transformative powers I felt in the “in between” or altered states of consciousness. I<br />
discovered that my art and dreams were portals into my own self-exploration of the<br />
unknown. My ancestors, the ancient Celts, called this state “Caol ‘ait” (thin places) where<br />
the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds merge. Akin to the neo-shamanistic world<br />
of creativity as ritual and transformation I found that through my creative process I could<br />
pass through a type of threshold that allowed me to enter into a state of consciousness,<br />
where I could explore the interflow between time, space, and the eternal.<br />
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As I continued to mature as an artist and a seeker, I developed a deep desire to travel<br />
to sacred sites and to study ancient cultures whose shamanistic worldviews encompassed a<br />
belief in a magical “other world” or “in between.” I was amazed at the archeological record,<br />
which showed that the ancients intuitively constructed places for ritual and worship that<br />
amplified the Earth’s energy. These “thin places” were potent portals into other realms of<br />
consciousness. In the book Overlay, art critic Lucy Lippard explores the relationship between<br />
contemporary art and prehistoric art. She states, “the ancient sites and images are talismans, aids to memory, outlets for the imagination, that cannot be owned--something seems to flow back to us<br />
through these places. The symbols in these sites are a synthesis of changing<br />
and multiple realities—both vehicles of several levels of reality and of several<br />
levels of communal need. The towering standing stone in the landscape seems<br />
not to dominate its surroundings but to coexist sensuously with them. It<br />
confirms the human need to touch, to hold, to make, in relationship to natural<br />
forces and phenomena.” (Lippard, 1983, pg 8.)<br />
Having visited many sacred sites around the globe, from Stonehenge to Machu<br />
Pucchi to Katmandu, it became very obvious to me that these sites are powerful<br />
manifestations of the symbiotic connection between nature and the inner realms of the<br />
ancients. As I gained more direct experience with these power spots around the Earth I<br />
became driven to use art to foster my own personal relationship to nature and the mysteries<br />
that reside within.<br />
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Characteristics of My Work<br />
My art and process are inseparable from life. I began drawing at a very early age. I<br />
instantly become immersed in the fantastic worlds I could create and the feelings I could<br />
express through my art. I intuitively took up automatic drawing and was intrigued when my<br />
hand would seem to move by itself. Later, I began to draw my dreams and I was amazed by<br />
what the drawings revealed. My work continued to develop with my travels and studies. I<br />
became very comfortable just being a conduit and having creativity flow through me. I have<br />
come to believe that I am merely a channel for something greater than me that manifests<br />
through my art. As Paul Klee wrote, “the artist does nothing other than gather and pass on<br />
what comes to him from the depths. He neither serves nor rules ---- He transmits…. he is<br />
merely a channel.”<br />
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Portals<br />
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“Lisa’s sacred intentions are painted multi-dimensionally, making marks</div>
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sweeping to and fro on a ground of archaic ecstasy. “</div>
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Evocative, and elemental in force, my portals or my visionary abstract paintings<br />
evoke notions of the Earth, blood, fire, and the Void (the Buddhist term Sunyata, meaning<br />
the emptiness of creation where all form ar ises). My work offers a glimpse into the slippery<br />
windowsill between stages of becoming and dissolving. It speaks of the sensual as well as the<br />
luminous darkness that is revealed in immutable mysteries. Through my art and its process I<br />
find myself in a continuous journey of discovery into both the sacred and shadowy realms of<br />
existence. When I paint, I feel like I am invoking the ancients who painted in caves and ritual<br />
chambers.<br />
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I begin each painting with an intention. I embed an archetypal symbol such as a Nordic Cross or<br />
Hindi Deity into my work. I do this either through drawing the symbol or focusing on a photo of the archetype. Sometimes I begin my paintings with some of the students I teach. My intention for them is healing. I let several students create the foundation of the painting with a color field. At times, I create to<br />
the rhythm of nature’s cycles, or to the full moon or lunar eclipses. Music is imperative and<br />
intrinsic to my creative process. I often engage my sense of scent through incense and I create ambient light through candles.<br />
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I create a visual language using acrylics and mixed media. I build up layers of<br />
transparency through color and gel mediums. I usually start with a color field. Then I use the<br />
chance element of water to create flowing and dripping paint, so that patterns emerge<br />
organically from the interplay of mediums. At times, I may add materials from nature. I also<br />
integrate var ious primordial marks and layers of symbols. Mark-making comes from my<br />
spontaneous and intuitive impulses, which take on many forms. It is akin to the art form of<br />
Sumi or Chinese ink brush, where the paint that flows from the brush becomes an extension<br />
of my chi or energy. Like Jackson Pollock, who flung large f ields of drips and swirling<br />
paint, I have the intention of making energy visible, thus demonstrating the infinite patterns<br />
of connectedness. Mark-making is also like a form of archaeology, where I scratch away the<br />
surface excavating back through all that I have built, seeing what lies beneath. This desire to<br />
know what has been forgotten reveals itself through the portal of the mark. “ The ultimate<br />
unity which the ancients achieved has been lost. The ancients had combined within their<br />
plastic world the three all-important elements of human experience with in a single symbol.<br />
These three are sensualism, sensation, and objectivity.” (Rothko, 2004, pg92.) Through my<br />
creation of art, I seek to remember the wisdom of the ancients and what we have forgotten.<br />
At some point in the creative process I incorporate Sacred Geometry. “Sacred<br />
Geometry is a philosophy and practice existing in ancient Egypt and Greece. Its implicit goal<br />
was to enable the mind to become a channel through which the earth; (the level of manifest<br />
form) could receive abstract cosmic life from heavens.” (Lawler, pg6.) I consciously separate<br />
the plane of the canvas by masking an area with a linear line or by creating a rectangle or<br />
square. To me, this symbolizes the in-between, as well as the relationships between space<br />
and time, chaos and order. It creates an edge or entry point for the viewer to explore deeper<br />
into the surface of the painting.<br />
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The work below is called Chaos and Order. To me, it resembles the birth of a star or<br />
galaxy. It is the animate nature of the formless coming into form. The black lightning- like patterns emerge. The solid line symbolizes the spatial order or the relationship of form to<br />
abstraction. Chaos and Order was inspired by two journeys to South America. The golden color<br />
is a reference to the luminosity and divinity of the worldviews of Mesoamerican ancient<br />
cultures. The first journey involved two trips to Peru; the realm of the children of the sun.<br />
There, I met a shaman who performed a ritual and led us through the Inca experience. He<br />
guided us into the ancient ruins and we directly experienced the transcendent power of that<br />
place. In Peru I felt like I had visited the womb of creation. The second journey involved a<br />
visit to Iguaçu Falls, one of the seven wonders of the natural world. The panorama of the<br />
falls filled me with fascination and a respect for the power and perfection of nature. I had a<br />
spiritual experience gazing down into “the devils throat.” I was also intrigued by the strange<br />
patterns that occurred in nature, like lichen growing on the boulders below the falls. I felt an<br />
affinity with the place because in many of my automatic paintings similar patterns often<br />
appear unintentionally.<br />
Totems<br />
My latest canvases are a series of mysterious and explosive triptychs<br />
that ascend dynamically into space. These works are the intersection of<br />
my studies with my interest in Shamanism. In this work there is a quality of the “event” and a sense of both my immersion and retreat from this state of being. This work was inspired by my travels to the petroglyphs<br />
of Pu’uloa, Hawaii and the sacred sites of Knowth, NewGrange, the Hill of Tara and the<br />
Giants Causeway in my ancestral land of Ireland.<br />
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I work on all three canvases simultaneously on the floor. My intention is to break<br />
through and connect physically and metaphysically to all three worlds of my consciousness --<br />
-- the lower, middle, and upper worlds (the subconscious, conscious, and super<br />
consciousness). Through my process, I feel a sense of immersion into and through these<br />
states of being, as the work occupies the darkness of the optical world and the lightness of the<br />
inner world. While creating I unify each canvas to the others through mono printing and/or<br />
an intuitive and automatic calligraphy. When the work is complete it is transferred from the<br />
Earth into the sky as it is hung vertically on a wall.<br />
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The totems become the tentacles of a sacred site. The work symbolizes the Axis<br />
Mundi, which is an ancient archetype in religion and mythology. A representation of the Axis<br />
Mundi is the world tree. The tree is considered to be the connection between heaven and<br />
Earth. The anthropologist Mircea Eliade describes the Axis Mundi as “the absolute reality;<br />
the center on which the world is founded.” (Citation?) I seek for my totems to help us<br />
remember what we have forgotten in this world and to become an outlet for the imagination.<br />
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Site Specific works<br />
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stumbled upon the shrine at Cascade Falls, and it awoke something inside us.</div>
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What is this? We wondered. Look at these colors…around this beautiful tree,</div>
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and resonant energy ... this is where people have gathered to honor this place.</div>
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My earthworks are collaborative installations that pay homage to trees in and around<br />
the Bay Area that emanate power or have an absence of it. It began as a practice to rekindle my ancient relationship with trees. Evidence of human kind’s interconnection with trees traces back well over 6,ooo<br />
years. Humanity once had a deep spiritual relationship with trees. Indeed, the precursor to our dominant patriarchal religions was the tree. My work is a cross culture phenomenon inspired by the Kalaptura tree (wishing tree) of India and by various ancient and indigenous cultures around the globe that worshipped<br />
trees. While creating these works metaphysically, I activate my belief in animism ---- the<br />
shamanistic worldview that bodies in nature have souls and consciousness.<br />
Thus far I have created eleven earthworks, five being solar and six being lunar. The<br />
solar or circle shrines symbolize the archetype of the masculine. The crescent or lunar<br />
shrines symbolize the archetype of the feminine and must be created near a water source. I<br />
employ these two energies through the intuitive action of creating concentric circles around<br />
the trunk of a tree with pigments, spices, and food from Asia, India, and South America. The<br />
inner rings of the shrine seem to exteriorize and vibrate with energy through the vibrant and<br />
contrasting colors of the pigments. After each work is complete I meditate with the tree and<br />
document my experience.<br />
An important aspect of this project is the witnessing and of the interaction of the work<br />
by another to activate its potential for the witness to remember<br />
something they have forgotten. My intention is for my shrines to evoke<br />
introspection and a sense of the sacred for those who stumble upon<br />
them in a forest or in a city.<br />
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One of my latest tree shrines was a solar shrine created at<br />
Lincoln Child Center, a mental health agency for abused children<br />
where I teach transformative art. It was a collaborative project with my students. The tree we<br />
chose was a neglected olive tree located on a small island of dirt surrounded by cement. We<br />
poured the pigments and contrasting hues to activate the solar energy in the concentric<br />
circles. Then we tore Sari cloth and ribbons and asked all the children to make wishes as they<br />
tied the ribbons to the tree. The children intuitively asked permission from the tree. One<br />
child wished for world peace. Another wished to go home. A third wished he would not be<br />
restrained anymore. The wind blew through the tree with the simplicity and majesty of<br />
Tibetan prayer flags, carrying my students’ wishes away.<br />
My earthworks are expanding internationally. I have decided to create shrines around<br />
the globe. In March of 2008, I went to Copper Canyon in Mexico and I created a shrine in<br />
around a tree located in a place called “the valley of frogs.” From afar, I noticed several<br />
people looking at the shrine with curiosity. I hope my shrines will help build awareness of<br />
our spiritual connection with the environment, and that they will help foster reverence for all<br />
life.<br />
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Photography<br />
My photography is a form of seeing as well a process of me becoming a witness ---- a<br />
capturer of my own personal transcendent moments in time. With<br />
photography I harness moments in the sacred sites I have traveled to<br />
around the globe. In ordinary reality I photograph moments of light<br />
that exemplify the sublime, the beauty, and the magic of my<br />
perceived space in that time. My paintings, upon which I reflect on<br />
for hours on end, often become my subject matter as they transform<br />
and glow in the sunlight. Like my tree shrine photos, this process of documentary usually<br />
reveals something that was hidden or unknown to me.<br />
The Hands of Creation series manifested from my teaching transformative art to<br />
vulnerable and emotionally troubled children at a mental health agency in the Bay Area. I<br />
was looking for a way to honor the creative powers of my amazing students. Because of<br />
privacy issues I was not allowed to photograph their<br />
faces. So I decided to take pictures of their creative<br />
tools ---- their hands. Through the Hands of Creation<br />
project, I seek to honor that state of the soul where the<br />
artist/child experiences the ultimate liberation, which is the act of creation itself. It is my way of honoring the children’s essence and creativity, and<br />
counteracting apathy. My portraits are the revelation of the “other” to many viewers who<br />
know little about the struggles these children face. They bring to light the horrific plague of<br />
abuse that exists in our society. Through my practice and my teaching, I attempt to heal the<br />
wounded soul and to empower these magnificent and marginalized children.<br />
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Philosophy<br />
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We are made by magic. All of us in general are magicians.</div>
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Andre Pierre (Haitian artist)</div>
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I came to JFK University in the fall of 2003 with two perspectives: One being the<br />
visionary artist who was following my dreams and realizing my greatest potential; the other<br />
being my shadow. Previously, I had been doing f ine art sales in the gallery world and trying<br />
to find some redemption about being in the arena. I call it my six-year research project to see<br />
what the art world was all about and how I could infiltrate it. I became sickened by the<br />
ugliness of greed and the perverse paradox that we were selling “beauty.” Visionary and<br />
spiritual aspects of the artist were never mentioned and were denied for the sake of money.<br />
Artists become brand names and lingered in “rock star” status. We were not selling art, but<br />
image and status. I was heartbroken. Where had the essence of art gone? This worldview of<br />
art also resonated with my education. Having taken many art history courses, I noticed that<br />
the word, “spirituality,” was always left out. The “S word” was not accepted in the<br />
mainstream art world.<br />
My personal quest is to reunite art and the spirit. Akin to the alchemist’s work, which<br />
is the transformation of gross material into spiritual substance, I see my art as artifacts of my<br />
ever-transforming consciousness. My art and its process represent a humble quest to resurrect<br />
divination in my personal journey and into the community at large. As an artist my work<br />
gives the viewer a personal glimpse of my internal revelations. While creating I become a<br />
shamanic cave painter, an archeologist, an alchemist, and sorceress.<br />
I speak of divination in its broadest sense, meaning that through my art and process I<br />
find myself in a continuum of discovering the unknown within myself and in the world that I<br />
live in. The motives and impulses behind my creative process are my shamanistic belief that<br />
through the process of creation, I align with dynamism and the divinity that is animated in all<br />
of life. Like Tibetan art, which symbolically describes levels of awareness, I intuitively<br />
explore the three levels of sacred art in my work: the outer, the inner, and the secret----The<br />
outer being the physical object; the inner being the ritual that occurs during my art making;<br />
and the secret, where through the process of my creation and through my reflection on the<br />
finished work, the unknown becomes known.<br />
Art is my personal ritual and teacher. My allure with “thin places” has also led me to<br />
explore transpersonal psychology and my own personal shadow through dream work and<br />
Jungian analysis. My art is a record of my deep interest in mysticism and the natural world,<br />
as well as a passageway into my own mythical inversion of reality. It is my deep exploration<br />
into non-ordinary reality and the mysteries of the unknown. While creating I employ my two<br />
mental allies, instinct and intuition, to create a composition of chaos and order.<br />
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The Mainstream<br />
My philosophy and worldview exist on the margins of our society. The mainstream<br />
philosophy is still part of the old paradigm. The Western World’s dominant philosophy<br />
consists of dogmatic materialism and acquisition. Spirituality is separate from the material.<br />
The dominant theologies in the world are patriarchal and oppress nature and the sacred<br />
Feminine. Countless lives are taken every day in the name of their god. Underlining<br />
patriarchal philosophy is the notion that there is only one truth.<br />
Even in the art world, spirituality has been suppressed. The pioneers of abstraction,<br />
like Kandinsky and his belief that art was a spiritual revolution, have been hidden in<br />
institutional closets. The dominant philosophy is that the universe is not animistic. The Earth<br />
and its animals are for man to own, rape, and pillage. Animals are treated as objects that feel<br />
no pain and are tortured in horrific and unbelievable ways via factory farming and in the<br />
name of scientific research. The dominant philosophies are so unjust and overwhelming, that<br />
one could easily develop a fatalistic vision of the world.<br />
There is hope though, as a new paradigm is emerging. Just like the life that bursts<br />
through the cracks in pavement, there are like-minded souls, who quest to revere life in itself.<br />
There are many teachers such as Krishnmurti, Jung, and Wilber who have challenged the<br />
materialistic culture. I can look to a somewhat hidden legacy of the great artists throughout<br />
history that have explored the transcendent through their art. The Spiritual in Abstract<br />
Painting from 1890-1985 offers a series of exposés illuminating the explorations by artists<br />
such as William Blake, Malchevich, and Mark Rothko into the mysterious realms of<br />
metaphysics and beyond. They all illuminate the potential of the universe and its symbiotic<br />
relationship with human nature. The new sciences are also revealing the mysteries of what<br />
the ancients knew through holistic systems and Quantum theory.<br />
Jung offers springs of hope to my ideal of being a visionary artist. “We see that [the<br />
visionary artist] has drawn upon the healing and redeeming forces of the collective psyche<br />
that underlies consciousness with its isolation and its painful errors: that she/he penetrated to<br />
that matrix of life in which all men/women are embedded, which imparts a common rhythm<br />
of human existence, and allows the individual to communicate his feeling and his striving to<br />
mankind as whole.” (Jung)<br />
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Social Issues<br />
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Each man/woman is a conduit for the infinite ocean</div>
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of power that lies behind mankind.</div>
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Malevic</div>
I believe the core social issue that I am exploring in my painting, photography, sitespecific<br />
works, and my teaching is abuse, which plagues society and the planet Earth. My approach to this work is not criticism, but a gentle revelation of what was and what can be. In all my work I explore and reveal the shadow of humanity by facing it, bringing it to surface, and on a personal level, finding a way to transform it. In my work I foster the reverence of all life, the importance of one’s inner journey, the power of creativity and its intrinsic healing nature within all humans, my work rekindles our intrinsic and essential relationship with nature.<br />
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The Art of Transformation<br />
As an art educator and healer I am drawn to the populations that are marginalized,<br />
like at risk-youth and emotionally disturbed children. Prior to graduate school I implemented<br />
a transformative art program for at-risk teens in Arkansas called “Teen Art Explosion.” The<br />
last project we completed was a dream art project. This work was a treasure. My work and<br />
the teens’ artwork became published in an international dream magazine. In 2006 I quested<br />
to teach again and I blindly took an art teaching job at a non-profit mental agency for<br />
traumatized and abused children. I was shocked by two things, the first being the absence of<br />
art for these children in their daily lives and the other being the rigid behavior ist model that<br />
the system had adopted for these traumatized children.<br />
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Maybe I was lucky that there was no art program because the vacuum enabled me to<br />
pioneer my own transformative art program at the center. One inspiration and model for my<br />
program came from the film Born into Brothels, which documented disadvantaged children<br />
in India who were given the opportunity to express themselves through art. One of the most<br />
powerful aspects of this film was that the children’s art was received in the public through<br />
exhibitions.<br />
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Using my background in art sales, I set up exhibitions for my students to show their<br />
work. My vision was to awaken the public to the plight of these marginalized youth, to see<br />
the beauty within them, and to build bridges between communities. Such initiatives, to my<br />
knowledge, are quite rare in the mental health community. During my two years at the center,<br />
I have developed ongoing public exhibitions for the children’s work. The most successful<br />
project is called “The Art of Transformation,” which is a gallery event showcasing the work<br />
of children from five mental health agencies. These exhibitions have fostered transformation<br />
within my students and the communities they have shown in. The people who buy my<br />
students’ work are moved to their core. The art has awakened them to the beauty and the<br />
imagination of the perceived “other.”<br />
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I mentor children to find their creative power and give voice to their fragmented<br />
beings. Bryanna, one of my beautiful students, has dubbed my art room “the calm room”.<br />
Everyday that I work with these amazing and resilient children my belief that art is a healing<br />
force is affirmed.<br />
Within my work in society I attempt to expose abuse in the world. My art looks at it<br />
straight in its face and attempts to begin the process of healing through the art process and its<br />
reception. My work responds to social issues as it aspires to renew and resurrect the spirit in<br />
art. The spirit is not a dogmatic truth, but a universal truth.<br />
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The found peace<br />
Earlier this year, I attended The Missing Peace, an exhibition by curator Randy<br />
Rosenberg at the Yerba Buena Center for Art in San Francisco. The exhibition was about the<br />
Dali Lama and his archetype. It represented the greater ideals he stands for such as tolerance,<br />
unity, connection, and healing. It was inspiring to see that there were contemporary artists<br />
like myself who were also interested in similar issues and journeying into the inner realms.<br />
Rosenburg states, “One of the central roles of art and the artist is to encourage us to think<br />
about the forces that shape our lives. The transformative power of art invites us to reflect on<br />
our beliefs about those forces, and to make the shifts in our perception necessary to expand<br />
them (The Missing Peace, pg 8). Like The Missing Peace, my art also seeks to educate,<br />
inspire, transform, and engage, and heal.<br />
Ongoing Projects:<br />
This is the New Movement is a project challenging the old paradigm of art as an<br />
institution, unreachable by the masses. I, along with two other local artists, attend museums<br />
once a month and encourage audiences to express what they felt about the art they saw. We<br />
hope to instigate a dialogue. We leave our flyers with our website for people to find so they<br />
can log on and express their views online. We also create videos of each visit and post them<br />
on YouTube. Our movement integrates technology and new paradigm views to challenge the<br />
status quo of the art world and to entice the masses to engage in art in a visceral and<br />
challenging way.<br />
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I am also collaborating with artist and activist Janice Brewster to honor victims of<br />
abuse. We will be creating an installation this spring in companion with my student’s artwork<br />
Janice has collected thousands of hand tracings from around the world to break the silence<br />
that pervades this plague in all our societies. Next year we hope to organize a trip to Africa<br />
to collaborate with the Zulu tribe in breaking the silence of abuse and resurrecting the healing<br />
power of art.<br />
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As I conclude my studies at JFK I continue to be a prolific painter and I continue to<br />
be overwhelmed and amazed by my audience’s receptivity and understanding of my work.<br />
My coursework at JFK has been fruitful and has expanded my vision. I found that the sacred<br />
is a realm of the larger truths surrounding and conditioning our lives and dwelling within or<br />
in between: it is the realm of the hidden, and therefore, revelation. Art and teaching is my<br />
sacred purpose.Lisa Rasmussen M.F.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02634926919074950695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157413459443039362.post-81086661877778248602012-08-06T15:01:00.000-07:002012-08-06T15:01:08.049-07:00Art is good, end of argument.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><em>Art is our one true global language. It knows no Nation, it favors no race, and it acknowledges<br />no class. It speaks to our need to reveal, heal and transform. It transcends our ordinary lives and<br /> lets us imagine what is possible." </em></strong><a _cke_saved_href="http://www.richardkamler.org/" href="http://www.richardkamler.org/" target="_blank">Richard Kalmer</a><br /><br />All one has to do is look outside your door and you know something is a awry. There is the ever increasing population of homeless people on our streets, many of whom are veterans and/or mentally disabled. Then turn on your TV and look at the staggering facts of the increased incidents of domestic violence, abuse and sex trafficking within our communities. Also, check out our “normal” adult population as a large percentage are addicted to drugs and alcohol for mood elevation and numbing. No one can argue that in the 21st century there is a lot of disconnect and misery.<br />Things really have to change. <strong>Can Art and its process be a catalyst? </strong><br />It seems that the ever spiraling argument from our politicians is that Art is not necessary in our society, but war is necessary. This hawkish worldview has many flaws: It causes a lot of suffering and torture, and it costs a lot of money. Every year our governments slice away at the collective cultural, arts, and arts education budgets to aid our addiction to institutionalized violence. The arts advocacy folks have refined their standard and very convincing argument that the arts revitalize and actually create our economy, which they do 100%! But for me there is an even more compelling and restorative argument here: that creating art is actually beneficial for one's own well being and for the community as a whole. It is not a bandage for societal wounds, but actually an agent of transformation and healing. The bottom line is art is good!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Here are some facts about the benefits of art:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Nonverbal expression and communication: Art is a nonverbal tool that lets you communicate how you see the world. It gives you a chance to express and release your feelings.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Form of relaxation: The act of creating art can simply work as a needed distraction to clear your head of daily life stresses. A temporary retreat or escape from your everyday living. In the act of sketching or painting you experience the sense of a meditative flow, focusing on the enjoyable act of creating art.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Increasing Morale: Just as a child has fun creating art so should you. The nature of creating something, experimenting with shapes and color evokes as sense of playfulness. Watching your picture develop into a finished piece will also give you a sense of pride and accomplishment.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Improving cognition: Critical thinking is used in decision making; what would you like to paint or draw; how are you going to capture this image or idea; what colors to use, where to place an object in your picture. Your attention span is also strengthened as you focus on your work.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Sense of self: Art can help to build a child or teenager’s self esteem, and as an adult it can help renew your self esteem. If you are going to take up drawing, painting or any form of art you are putting time aside to do so; putting time aside for this is special time you’ve taken and invested in yourself.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Here are a couple more lists that I found on line of why art is good/beneficial for <a _cke_saved_href="http://Here is a couple more lists that I found online of why ART is good/beneficial for children, elders, and people with disabiltiies. Lets together as society imagine what is possible throught the act of creating together~World Peace and Harmony! If you feel Art is truly a beneficial for everyone in our society please Join us on 9/7/12! Experience the bliss of creating together in your community. If you cannot be present at on our Art sites, please just a moment in your day on 9/7/12 and create something!" href="http://here%20is%20a%20couple%20more%20lists%20that%20i%20found%20online%20of%20why%20art%20is%20good/beneficial%20for%20children,%20elders,%20and%20people%20with%20disabiltiies.%20%20Lets%20together%20as%20society%20imagine%20what%20is%20possible%20throught%20the%20act%20of%20creating%20together~World%20Peace%20and%20Harmony!%20If%20you%20feel%20Art%20is%20truly%20a%20beneficial%20for%20everyone%20in%20our%20society%20please%20Join%20us%20on%209/7/12!%20Experience%20the%20bliss%20of%20creating%20together%20in%20your%20community.%20If%20you%20cannot%20be%20present%20at%20on%20our%20Art%20sites,%20please%20just%20a%20moment%20in%20your%20day%20on%209/7/12%20and%20create%20something!" target="_blank">children</a>, <a _cke_saved_href="http://www.artandaging.com/2011site/art-for-elders/benefits.html " href="http://www.artandaging.com/2011site/art-for-elders/benefits.html" target="_blank">elders</a>, and <a _cke_saved_href="http://www.disaboom.com/arts/the-benefits-of-art-therapy-for-people-with-disabilities/" href="http://www.disaboom.com/arts/the-benefits-of-art-therapy-for-people-with-disabilities/" target="_blank">people with disabilities</a> (click on the word to be redirected to the list).<br /><br />Let the paradigm shift and lets all imagine a global art intervention!<br />Lauren and I have been on this quest since the beginning of our <a _cke_saved_href="http://artismoving.blogspot.com/" href="http://artismoving.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Art is Moving</a> collaboration in 2008. This is also precisely why we founded <a _cke_saved_href="http://www.artismovingnow.com/artbreakday.html" href="http://www.artismovingnow.com/artbreakday.html" target="_blank">Take 5: ARTbreak</a>.<br />Art can change the world. Within its magic it empowers individuals and entices a knowing of freedom!<br /><br /><strong>If you feel art is truly a beneficial for everyone in our society please join us on Friday, September 7, 2012 at <a _cke_saved_href="http://www.artismovingnow.com/artbreakday.html" href="http://www.artismovingnow.com/artbreakday.html" target="_blank">Take 5: ARTbreak</a> Day! Experience the bliss of creating together in your community. If you cannot make it to one of our sites, take a moment in your day to take a break and create something!</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.</span><em> Pablo Picasso</em><br />
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</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">I think I have always been a happy dreamer. I believe in my dreams, I believe in your dreams, and I believe that in this life time we should all try to reach our greatest potential. Whatever that may be, it is your Dream! For me this is how we change the world.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">As Joseph Campbell said it is the Hero’s Journey, we are all called to action. What question will you answer?</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;" /><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls." </strong><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Joseph Campbell</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">I also feel that following ones dreams is the Art of Life. From inspiration, vision, and courage you manifest your passion and you find your authentic truth and destiny.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Here is what I found on my journey in following my own dreams. I have so much more to learn, but this is what I know right now.</span><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">
<li style="text-align: left;"><strong>Carpe Diem</strong>-Seize the Day. Dream and dare- just to do it<strong>. </strong>Also, tap into inspiration and positive energy where ever you can get it! Yoga, art making, walking in nature act...</li>
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<strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” </strong><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;" /><em style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Henry David Thoreau</em><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"></span><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">
<li><strong>Courage</strong>-It takes a lot of courage and a lot work to realize your dreams. You must embrace the practical and the visionary all in one breath. Have a business plan, identify your mission, begin to connect with people, and stay true to your mission<strong>.</strong></li>
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<strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursuethem.” </strong><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;" /><em style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Walt Disney</em><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"></span><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">
<li><strong>Persistence and Resiliency</strong> is key! You will fall, fail, and be rejected, just remember this is all part of the process.</li>
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<strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.” </strong><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;" /><em style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Michael Jordan</em><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"></span><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">
<li><strong>Cultivate Gratitude</strong>-never forget to take a moment in your day to be thankful for what have and what you have achieved. Embrace it! You are amazing!!</li>
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<strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">“So many of our dreams at first seems impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”</strong><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;" /><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"> </b><em style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Christopher Reeve</em><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"></span><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">
<li><strong>Friend Fear</strong>-become friends with your inner critic and inner saboteur. People will question you and you will doubt yourself—all you can do is friend your fears and create some good boundaries around the negativity that will enable IT not to squash your dream.</li>
<li><strong>Ask for support</strong> –Find a supportive group of allies who will support you in making your dreams a reality. Collaboration is key!!</li>
<li><strong>Action</strong>-Again Just Do it!! Leap O Faith</li>
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<strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">"Leap, and the net will appear."</strong><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;" /><em style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">John Burroughs</em><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;" /><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">
<li><strong>Fulfillment</strong>-Congratulations you made it through the journey!! Celebrate!! Reflect and then reassess and go back to square one.</li>
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<strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." </strong><em style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"> Lao Tzu</em><br />Lisa Rasmussen M.F.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02634926919074950695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157413459443039362.post-67624634274250723692011-12-19T19:05:00.000-08:002011-12-19T19:06:06.200-08:00Art Tip Networking for Artists and Social Phobs<br />
<img align="left" alt="" border="3" height="300" hspace="3" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/92437701994514539893b9dfa/files/IMG_2184.1.JPG" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #505050; display: inline; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px; margin-top: 3px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" vspace="3" width="200" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">To be an agent of change, to follow your dreams and your creative endeavors, (I personally always need to remind myself of this one) you must become a pragmatic visionary. What does that mean? Well, as an artist and creative how do you find the support you need--the collector, the art dealer, the gallery, the funder etc? One essential ingredient to your success is to develop a practical business strategy that is symbiotic with your vision (i.e. become a pragmatic visionary). An important aspect of your art business is the networking and self promotion plan. This is a weakness of mine since I am social phob and an artist. </span><br />
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<strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Connecting with the right people to support our art career is essential.</strong><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"> </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">I feel so uncomfortable talking about my work to strangers, I wish it would magically just speak for itself and I could be swept up by an art dealer like Picasso’s -- </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambroise_Vollard" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Ambroise Vollard</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">. There is a good chance that this just ain’t gonna happen.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">You must learn to talk with confidence about your work as well as your goals to the world. One simple and effective way is the creation of your own </span><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">elevator speech</strong><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">. I know this is difficult since you have to put yourself out there and “work the room” as they say. </span><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">It takes a lot of courage, persistence and resistance;</strong><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"> but as an artist you cannot be an island, you must start connecting with the world to find the support you need to aid you in the manifestation of your dream.</span><br />
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<strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">What is an elevator speech?</strong><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">It is 30-60 second speech that talks about your work and why it is important.</span><br />
<strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">How do you craft an elevator speech?</strong><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"> </span><br />
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<li>Reflect on "What are your goals with your art and art career<em>?" </em><br />My answer:<em> Get Museums, sell your work, change the world or all the above</em>.</li>
<li>Think about, "How is your art different, new, and unique? Why is your art important?"</li>
<li>Create a short 30 second speech that is a description of yourself, your art or your project. Include your goals and a short vignette, the positive benefits others have gained from your work.</li>
<li>Practice with friends</li>
<li>Communicate with pride and enthusiasm</li>
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<strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Good Luck All!!</strong><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"> Also never forget your business cards and always be prepared to meet your own version of Ambroise Vollard. You really never know who will be in the next elevator with you!!</span>Lisa Rasmussen M.F.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02634926919074950695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157413459443039362.post-73957885696157403952011-12-01T15:57:00.001-08:002011-12-01T16:00:47.251-08:00Super excited to have my webpage up and running at <a href="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/lisa-rasmussen-paintings.html">Terra Firma Gallery in San Rafael</a>. I am looking for some awesome Art Collectors to acquire my work. Please contact Daniel at <a href="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/lisa-rasmussen-paintings.html">Terra Firma Gallery</a> for more information and if you are interested in adding to your collection.<br />
Namaste, Lisa<br />
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Lisa Rasmussen is a painter, art advocate, environmental artist, and educator. She was born in Wisconsin and has her roots in Scandinavia and Ireland. Lisa comes from a working class family, who has always supported her to follow her dreams to become an Artist. Her late Mother, Mickey was Lisa’s Muse, she fostered in her the practice of Art as being a form of expression and personal healing. Early on Lisa developed a thirst for travel and distant cultures. A key conceptual element of her artistic process is the study and travel to ancient cultures and sacred sites around the world. Some of her travel adventures include Nepal, Peru, Ireland, and Brazil. She has also lived and taught English in the mountains of South, China, as well as she had studied antiquities, the Art of the Renaissance, and Ceramics in Florence, Italy.<br />
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<span class="s1">For her painting is a very visceral, physical, and metaphysical process. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rasmussen’s paintings have been called abstract expressionism, with a spiritual twist.</span> Her paintings reflect her holistic worldview and her deep connection with the natural world. For Rasmussen, art making is a transcendental experience. When she paints, Rasmussen taps into a force greater than herself; a force that creates through her. Each painting is a product of her dance with divinity. Through her process she hopes to invoke in herself and the viewer a deeper connection to the world within and around us through reflection and inspiration.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Rasmussen was named “Graduate Student of the Year” during her MFA commencement exercises in recognition of the strength of her paintings and her use of her artistic gifts to transform the lives of victims of abuse. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rasmussen is the Co-founder and Co-director of the ArtCart and of Art Break Day 2011,</span> the mission of both these projects is to empower individuals and communities through ART and its process.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Rasmussen’s work has been featured in numerous media outlets.<br />Currently she lives in Santa Monica with her three cats</span></div>
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<tr><td align="center" class="price-info" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><b>Online Gallery Price: </b><span class="price" style="color: #d90d0e;">$1,300.00</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td align="center" class="item" height="60" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/lisa-rasmussen-prana.html" style="color: #7b1c09; font-size: 13px;">Prana</a></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="price-info" colspan="2" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><img align="absmiddle" src="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/assets/templates/common/images/star0.png" /> 0 Review(s)</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="price-info" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><b>Online Gallery Price: </b><span class="price" style="color: #d90d0e;">$1,500.00</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td align="center" class="item" height="60" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/lisa-rasmussen-wu-wei.html" style="color: #7b1c09; font-size: 13px;">Wu Wei</a></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="price-info" colspan="2" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><img align="absmiddle" src="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/assets/templates/common/images/star0.png" /> 0 Review(s)</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="price-info" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><b>Online Gallery Price: </b><span class="price" style="color: #d90d0e;">$1,300.00</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td align="center" height="150"><a href="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/lisa-rasmussen-phoenix-rising.html" style="color: #7b1c09; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="Phoenix Rising" border="0" src="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/thumbnail.asp?file=assets/images/products/882386fr_thumbnail.jpg&maxx=0&maxy=150" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="item" height="60" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/lisa-rasmussen-phoenix-rising.html" style="color: #7b1c09; font-size: 13px;">Phoenix Rising</a></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="price-info" colspan="2" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><img align="absmiddle" src="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/assets/templates/common/images/star0.png" /> 0 Review(s)</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="price-info" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><b>Online Gallery Price: </b><span class="price" style="color: #d90d0e;">$1,500.00</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="item" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;" valign="middle"><input class="btn" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/assets/templates/v30017/css/images/BG_btn.gif); background-origin: initial; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: white; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 1px;" type="button" value="Buy" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td align="center" height="150"><a href="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/lisa-rasmussen-illumination.html" style="color: #7b1c09; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="Illumination" border="0" src="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/thumbnail.asp?file=assets/images/products/882385fr_thumbnail.jpg&maxx=0&maxy=150" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="item" height="60" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/lisa-rasmussen-illumination.html" style="color: #7b1c09; font-size: 13px;">Illumination</a></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="price-info" colspan="2" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><img align="absmiddle" src="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/assets/templates/common/images/star0.png" /> 0 Review(s)</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="price-info" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><b>Online Gallery Price: </b><span class="price" style="color: #d90d0e;">$1,900.00</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="item" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;" valign="middle"><input class="btn" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/assets/templates/v30017/css/images/BG_btn.gif); background-origin: initial; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: white; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 1px;" type="button" value="Buy" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td align="center" height="150"><a href="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/lisa-rasmussen-pneuma.html" style="color: #7b1c09; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="Pneuma" border="0" src="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/thumbnail.asp?file=assets/images/products/882384fr_thumbnail.jpg&maxx=0&maxy=150" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="item" height="60" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/lisa-rasmussen-pneuma.html" style="color: #7b1c09; font-size: 13px;">Pneuma</a></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="price-info" colspan="2" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><img align="absmiddle" src="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/assets/templates/common/images/star0.png" /> 0 Review(s)</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="price-info" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><b>Online Gallery Price: </b><span class="price" style="color: #d90d0e;">$1,900.00</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="item" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;" valign="middle"><input class="btn" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/assets/templates/v30017/css/images/BG_btn.gif); background-origin: initial; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: white; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 1px;" type="button" value="Buy" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td align="center" height="150"><a href="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/lisa-rasmussen-raramuri.html" style="color: #7b1c09; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="Raramuri" border="0" src="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/thumbnail.asp?file=assets/images/products/882383fr_thumbnail.jpg&maxx=0&maxy=150" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="item" height="60" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/lisa-rasmussen-raramuri.html" style="color: #7b1c09; font-size: 13px;">Raramuri</a></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="price-info" colspan="2" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><img align="absmiddle" src="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/assets/templates/common/images/star0.png" /> 0 Review(s)</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="price-info" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><b>Online Gallery Price: </b><span class="price" style="color: #d90d0e;">$1,900.00</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="item" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;" valign="middle"><input class="btn" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/assets/templates/v30017/css/images/BG_btn.gif); background-origin: initial; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: white; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 1px;" type="button" value="Buy" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td align="center" class="item" height="60" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/lisa-rasmussen-caol-ait.html" style="color: #7b1c09; font-size: 13px;">Caol Ait</a></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="price-info" colspan="2" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><img align="absmiddle" src="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/assets/templates/common/images/star0.png" /> 0 Review(s)</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="price-info" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><b>Online Gallery Price: </b><span class="price" style="color: #d90d0e;">$4,000.00</span></td></tr>
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</td><td width="33%"><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" class="alternative" style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-bottom-color: rgb(190, 191, 194); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(190, 191, 194); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(190, 191, 194); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(190, 191, 194); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><tbody>
<tr><td align="center" height="150"><a href="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/lisa-rasmussen-maya.html" style="color: #7b1c09; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="Maya" border="0" src="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/thumbnail.asp?file=assets/images/img_2900_thumbnail.jpg&maxx=0&maxy=150" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="item" height="60" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/lisa-rasmussen-maya.html" style="color: #7b1c09; font-size: 13px;">Maya</a></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="price-info" colspan="2" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><img align="absmiddle" src="http://www.terrafirmagallery.com/assets/templates/common/images/star0.png" /> 0 Review(s)</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" class="price-info" style="color: #585c5f; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><b>Online Gallery Price: </b><span class="price" style="color: #d90d0e;">$2,000.00</span></td></tr>
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Metamorphosis is for sale</div>
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Medium: Acrylic on Canvas</div>
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Size: 36" x 40" Depth 2 3/4</div>
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Price $4000</div>
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