The Art of Engagement

Amy Lenzo
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California bay area
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http://www.beautydialogues.com
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I am passionate about the transformational power of beauty - not the beauty of pleasant surfaces, but the beauty of depth, terrible magnificence and utter simplicity; the beauty of implicate pattern and wholeness; the beauty of human beings and of the earth, air, fire, water and space we are all made of.

My work is in creating beautiful, nature-based, heart-connected online environments that facilitate essential communication and inspire a sense of possibility and expasion.

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Beauty Dialogues

My main blog is called Beauty Dialogues, and it's an ongoing inquiry into the essence of beauty... I'd like to invite you to join me in exploring the delicate mystery at the center of this question.

Posted on October 4, 2007 at 7:49pm —

Amy Lenzo

Art & the Environment

One of the things that most enchants me is making art in nature ... celebrating the elements in a full-on engagement with the natural world.


The collaborative multi-talented ensemble Red Earth is one of my favorite examples of artists working in this field, and they are fantastic.

I wanted to sh… Continue

Posted on October 4, 2007 at 7:47pm —

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At 3:01pm on October 16, 2007, Caffyn Kelley said…
Amy - home and finally have a few minutes to spend with your inspiring words and images. I love this work, these explorations, and feel such excitement and kinship with your projects. It seems we are pursuing parallel paths - though you are farther along - in the intertwining interests - art and environment, beauty, and "heart-connected online environments that facilitate essential communication and inspire a sense of possibility and expansion." What a beautiful way to express a goal I have been struggling to formulate - this network is an experiment. Would love to have feedback from you on what worked and didn't work and why. If you send me a private message with your address, I'll send a copy of my book on Patricia Johanson. THANK YOU for all the many things you have done to bring this online space to life and keep dialogue flowing through the technical hassles of the conference day.
At 10:34am on October 14, 2007, Luciana said…
hello!

thank you for your post! i love the pics on your profile page! i`ll email you today some of my photos!
i`d be very happy to remain in contact with you!
At 4:19pm on October 12, 2007, Dwayne Oneill Parish said…
Sure, how do I access these videos?
At 4:17pm on October 12, 2007, Dwayne Oneill Parish said…
Here's a taste. It's wat i did using the letters of my full name:
METAPHYSICIAN HEAL THYSELF

Divine Presence presents me with presents of prosperity & opportunity
Wrapped oft times disguised as adversity. Stinking-thinking attempts to tempt
me away from
All-sufficiency but that can never be-‘cause I’m in harmony. Nothing
can harm me & the Universe
Yields unto me ‘til my desires are fulfilled & running over.
I accept my abundance in right, Divine order with
No end in sight. I got the Midas touch & might as well do as much as I can
to help others excel. I LOVE living my life in this fashion.
Everything I do is done with passion like smashing
Old beliefs in lack from attacking or trashing my Divine Inheritance in fact, I
Now commence from “nowon” to dispense with any old conditioning
that’s just not contributing to my trust fund of abundance &
Excellence of endeavor. I find the circumstances I desire by chance
or make them when or wherever.
Infinite Mind is there to aid them, pervading all I survey without strife
with the Omnipotent opinion that I claim dominion in my
Life. This life that’s been awarded me, if I wasn’t me I’d want to be
but I want to be more! I’m playing the Horn of Plenty &
Lord, anything I have you’ve given me, lovingly, generously.
I merely opened the door of my awareness to you endless store.
Prosperity for posterity is our Creator’s plan for the planet.
My plan, as I understand it is to demonstrate the Laws of Cause
And Effect—which I’m obliged to perfect & I expect to see with ecstasy nothing
yet to compare with my share of manna I manifest from thin air.
Real in-comes from God within not my job but then, each paycheck
contributes to my wealth. Treasure without measure is what is now felt!
I advance the eternal substance of my soul to optimize my health &
retrieve my loftiest goals & dreams from off the shelf.
Sure as the sun rises above the horizon, I’m rising above my lower me
I live what I do for a loving. I give from what I am
Here for. Something that nothing is more important for me to do.
That is to awaken the Glory of Creation in you.

hyp-hop-notherapy by dwayne o. parish © 5/2/05
At 3:07pm on October 12, 2007, Chris Corrigan said…
I'll be there...I've just been really busy and having a hard time to keep up with all of the changes on the Pegasus front...we've gone from an AoH to some other offering, the recption, and the a piece with Peggy. I have to take a moment, sit down and sort it out.

Anyway, all good...glad you're here...this has been a really fun OST to run. Just set it off and away they went.

C
At 3:05pm on October 12, 2007, sam bower said…
Thanks for your generous comments, Amy! I will be at Bioneers- facilitating a panel at 4:30 pm on Friday. Will be there most of the day Friday and off and on over the weekend. Email me- sam at greenmuseum.org and we can try to meet up there or some other time. Looking forward to it!
At 1:55pm on October 12, 2007, Lisa Lipsett said…
Hi Amy,

It's great to be connecting with you here. I find your beauty Blog to be inspiring and energizing. While doing a final meditation after yoga this morning the beautiful photo of the creamy blossom on your page burst into my consciousness. It reminded me of a lotus blossom that came to me in a meditation a few months back. It embedded itself in my heart.

In "The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into beauty" Yanagi writes:

"Beauty is the transformation of the world into pattern".

So "Li" or dynamic natural pattern is my inspiration. I love how the tension of opposition transforms itself into elegant patterned beauty. I play with this "natural law" endlessly while painting with oil and water based paints, or when releasing the surface tension created when one canvas is face down on another like dancing partners. I feel like an alchemist impersonating natures beauty recipe.

All the best
Li-sa
At 11:06pm on October 11, 2007, Chris Corrigan said…
Hey Amy...good to see you here...
At 3:51pm on October 11, 2007, TIm Jeeves said…
Thanks for your post Amy.
It's interesting that there seems to be a resonance around the idea of beauty on these pages. In too little art (that i encounter at least) is there emphasis on such an area - conceptualism and cleverness too easily dominate.
And with regard to your references to nature, again, I'd agree.
Nature, when fully revealed is, in many ways, the most perfect aesthetic experience in my book. Humbling, inspiring and beautiful. And again, it is importance that there is depth, and maybe even ugliness, within that beauty, rather than just a shallow scratch of the surface.
I'm interested in the fact that the medium you work in is online environments. How do you relate what is arguably the most artificial of art forms to the interest you have in nature?
The language you use suggests that it is softness that is key in these environments - 'nature-based, heart-connected' and yet I would have thought there was an inherent hardness to the instrument you have chosen for expression.
I'd be really interested in your thoughts as to how you overcome this and any links you can send me to your work.
Thanks,
t
PS Glad you like the photo. If only I could look like that all the time.
At 1:20pm on October 11, 2007, Beth Carruthers said…
Amy - I like very much what you say about beauty in your introduction. Beauty I believe really is one of the powerful forces in the world - not the pretty, or the nice, certainly not frivolous, and not even "beauty" in the western historical sense as being a neat little box of sensations, and attributes separable from "the sublime" and the "picturesque".

While some of this may seem a bit of "academic-speak", these ideas and theories filter into popular culture, and have an effect on institutions and popular media. The idea of a "bad", and/or frivolous beauty is certainly out there in the mainstream. I for one am happy to see beauty in all its subversive mystery making a comeback.

A week or so ago I was at conference at Dartington in the UK where Tracy Warr gave a talk on beauty. You can find the outline for that talk on the Desire Lines website at http://desirelines.org.uk/programme.html - just scroll down the page and you'll see it.

I hope to get online as much as possible this weekend, but am committed to participate in an invitational symposium on ethics and place in the UNESCO Clayoquot Biosphere Reserve... Also very interesting, but I am torn and so will try to multi-engage, rather than to be split!

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