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Islands Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies - AGM
Replied Jan. 30, 2008
Can Art Matter?
Replied Oct. 13, 2007
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- Where do you live?
- Gabriola Island, British Columbia
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- Art making... my interface with the world, visible and invisible and my dominant mode of communication.
It is only in the last 20 years that I have come to understand how thoroughly connected I am to the All through my art. I learn about myself and my relationships on a multidimensional level through the images, figures and creatures who give me their names and often the connective link to the life I live at that moment.
For example, an image of a grieving woman emerged in a miniature sculpture from a soapstone shard. I knew this little piece was for someone, but did not know who. The tiny sculpture was put safely away. About one year later I heard from a friend about a woman who had made a tribute to her daughter who had committed suicide. When I asked who the artist was, I learned she was someone I knew and simultaneously I had the knowing that the tiny grieving woman was for her. I had not thought of the sculpture in a year. When I went to visit the woman and brought the figure to her, she told me this was the position she took while grieving her daughter the previous three years.
A similar process guided my construction of a sculptural installation "Border Crossings" (see website listed) and continues to carry me on a journey of discovery and healing. Various pieces carved in bark, driftwood or stone have emerged to bring me affirmation (such as St. Francis) or new teaching and direction, or reflected glimpses of people coming into my life or some previous or future knowing.
My heart guides me and seems to link me on a non-ordinary level with what is important for me but also with what is of value to others.
This form and forum of 'Engagement" is welcome. I will be available as much as I can. Greetings to everyone.
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What a dynamic group we have! Excellent!
"To be engaged in the practice of a/r/tography means to inquire in the world through an ongoing process of art making in any artform and writing not separate or illustrative of each other but interconnected and woven through each other to create additional and/or enhanced meanings. A/r/tographical work is rendered through the methodological concepts of contiguity, living inquiry, openings, metaphor/metonymy, reverberations and excess which are enacted and presented/performed when a relational aesthetic inquiry condition is envisioned as embodied understandings and exchanges between art and text, and between and among the broadly conceived identities of artist/researcher/teacher." (Rita L. Irwin)
http://m1.cust.educ.ubc.ca:16080/Artography/
Thank you for your message. I look forward to sharing more about our work. I love how the energy of the universe weaves and connects us all. It was Elders of the Squamish Nation that invited me to take my Theatre work to a whole deeper level of healing for communities. That was almost eighteen years ago. I am forever grateful. And, small world - my current writing mentor who I met here in Georgia does healing work for the Squamish Nation also. I look forward to hearing more about what you are doing. Let's share more soon.
I'm just back from Toronto and the Nature Matters conference which was a strangely disembodied experience. I must say I much prefer this way of connecting to flying in a jumbo jet to stay in a chain hotel and talk about nature.... Although I enjoyed connecting in person with a couple of people I had met here on the website! Stacy Alaimo didn't come as she broke her leg the day before she was scheduled to do a lecture. But I have notes and tape for you on the talk she sent to be read aloud by the conference organizer. xo
How fun! While you were writing to me I was also on-line drinking in your amazing images! I just needed more time to formulate a response!
I feel a real affinity for your process and way of living art as a way to know. I love how you give voice to the body and how that voice and its images are embedded in your every moment.
Thank you for inititiating a connection.
Lisa
me to show some of your art - especially Border Crossing.
Phyllis