Collaboration--Ups and Downs

Currently, I am working on two collaborations. The first called Art is Moving with Lauren Usher, our vision is to create dialogue in the art world. This so far has been a great success. Lauren and I work at the same speed and put equal energies into it. We have created over 20 videos and over 100 posts on our Blog. This collaboration is great as it is growing we are opening a gallery, and will be doing workshops very soon. I feel satisfied with in terms of a creative relationship being cultivated.
"CLICK HERE" to check out art is moving.

The other Collaboration is the at the Red Door Gallery and Collective. This is a baby project with such potential. The challenge is there are twelve individuals in this project and only half of them show up on a regular basis in terms of communication and being part of the dialogue. It might be less than that. Today after the meeting I felt disappointed and deflated,
We have so much to do as we are opening on September 5th....

"CLICK HERE" to check out the red door


Here is some insights on a healthy collaboration has
very strong communication
each member participates equally
all members show up or communicate that they cannot
through communication each member becomes inspired to propel the vision into reality....

I would love to hear other peoples ideas on artistic collaboration? it is a very challenging mode of art. Any one have some good recipes?

What happens when the lights go out?

We had a black out last night, at first there was a sense of crisis. I am like, what is going on. No Internet. What to do. I must admit I am a blogger (an awkward one, as I consistently miss-leave out words when I write.). Still I am kind of obsessed with the whole thing.
I used my cell phone for my light source and I found some candles. As I was lighting them, I felt that this is the way we are suppose to live in natural light. Candle light sparks my creativity. Maybe this is instinctive. The light of fire, not artificial light spawns creativity. I love the ambiance, the aesthetic, and the mood of candles that stirs up many memories. This experience also stirred up my strange relationship with technology and how it consumes me. The lights went out so I could sit in the dark and remember my connection to the source. Strange how we use same words like power, source, light for technology, creativity, and spirituality.
When the power came back on I decided to turn them off all the lights and revel in my quite evening without technology.I enjoyed not having electricity the web was broken for a bit.
Balance is the key.

-Lisa

Response to Art is Magic

I had to post this comment of Vikrams words, he posted this on my Blog on Saturday. His words are so poetic and ring of Rumi. The web of connection. When I read this I was inspired that I am on the right path. I am so happy to connect with a fellow mystic. Namaste

phoenix said...
Hello Lisa

if I can have your ...a few minutes
Not more than I felt shall I'll express
To express self to selves; I carry the only fear
Of failure, of conflict; Of the lack of divinity
In my eyes, in words; in my visible self

Holding on to 'mysticism', I landed on your land
To find the right themes burnt in bright games
Not surprised I am to find a wandering soul
Wrapped in blue, red,pink brushes; living in the green abode

Burning with a desire to wish you a hello
Believing in words to hear, some skins to tear
I beg you to share your light of a Being
Who seems to be on the path I tend to begin

Why I'll write to you,perhaps, is mysteriously unknown
Like when mirage turns for a thirsty to an ocean of love

Only if the social fabric and the unsure strings be broken or redefined, I'd be much more of myself.
I'm a 23 yr old bachelor graduated (engineering) from the premier institute of India. I'm earning now and I am thoughtful. I am a believer, a traveller who believes in a purposeful living. And thus, extraordinarily attracted, in a dress of desperation, to anything which seems to associate itself with Truth. Though the inner waves have not yet manifested to my exterior domain to the extent I would have liked, a certain chain of events are accelerating its burst.

Your blog (description, about me) had enough life to grant me the breath to explode myself here. Thank you :)


Not a way is what I see here
But the 'light of bright passion' painted in colours

Vikram
PS: Animism is a faith which yields a reason to live

Art is Magic

Ever since I was a child art has been been my magic. I quickly found through drawing that I could create parallel universes of extraordinary imagination. As I mature as an artist I still believe art is about magic. In my site specific installations and my painting I transverse into a voodoo priestess,a neolithic cave painter, or shamanika. This work I took after it was in my show Caol 'Ait (thin places). The show was well received as my audience perceptions were altered by a multi sensory experience. After being in show for a month, this piece was in my studio. One day as I entered my studio there was this amazing light that was streaming through the window, merging and dissolving into my mixed media lotus piece. Magic it is! Thats what art is the merging and the dissolving of the artist and their audience, through the vehicle of their pyschic and physical imprint called Art.
Luckily, i had my camera to witness it all. That ties into what i think photography is, it is the Witness that stands within the artist.