Saturday, March 29, 2008

Ravens...magic, shapeshifting, and creation


“The raven is one of those birds that has a tremendous amount of lore and mythology surrounding it, and it is often contradictory. It is a bird of birth and death, and it is a bird of mysticism and magic.

With raven, human and animal spirits intermingle and become as one. This is reflected in it’s deep shiny black. In blackness everything mingles until drawn forth out into the light. Raven has the knowledge of how to become other animals and how to speak their languages.”

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Saelee Oh




Tree Sleeping Girl




tiny elephant





Art in Public spaces


Metropolitan Public
Art Coalition, Inc.


Public Art: Advocating a Vision

The following goals have emerged from discussions surrounding the educational lecture series, Public Art: Casting a Vision.

We support public art because it creates civic space, makes art accessible to everyone beyond galleries and museums, beautifies or mitigates infrastructure, attracts a creative workforce, increases tourism, defines neighborhoods and landmarks, celebrates civic achievements, addresses social issues, and becomes a city's brand.

Oz

a few new friends on my jouney. By chance the four of us were independantly on an alternative mission to see the wizard who lives on a spaceship located on the campus of elf university. We have all thought this would be a nice place to study, especially the cat who has had extensive communications with the small folk at the university.


Practicing magic with the Wizard...tossing a hoooooing owl back to the forest





the cat receiving award and first certification


Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Green Living


Art by Saelee Oh



The Green Guide provides eco-tips and simple , sustainable actions you can take to live a cleaner, greener life."

"The Green" online presents multimedia content focusing on the earth's ecology and concepts of 'green' living that balance human needs with responsible care for the planet. The green reflects the current tipping point in public awareness about ecological issues and the trend towards environmentally sustainable approaches to modern living."




Find out what we consume, what goes into it, and then what happens to it.

National Geographic Channel
Sunday, April 13 9PM et/pt
Everything you eat, drink and use.Your entire life's consumption. In one place at onetime.




Waldenour, located in Atlanta, is a store for discerning, quality-conscious buyers of green, organic and sustainable decorative fabrics, wallcoverings, furnishings and accessories.

The store celebrates home and working environments through the color and texture of all green and organic products. The experience will inform, inspire and educate interior designers, architects, builders and the general public in methods of transforming interiors and buildings into healthy and green environments.

Edie Morton Sanctuary Elements such as floating garden mobiles, luminaires and encaustic paintings can be found at Waldenour.





Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Falling Garden

Gerda Steiner & Jorg Lenzlinger
San Staë church on the Canale Grande
50th Biennial of Venice, 2003


The Doge (Mocenigo) needed a church so as to be able to have a monumental tomb built for himself, the church (San Staë) needed a saint so as to be able to be built, the saint (San Eustachio) needed a miracle so as to be pronounced a saint, the miracle needed a stag in order to be seen, and we built the garden for the reindeer.
The visitors lie on the bed above the doge’s gravestone, and the garden thinks for them.

Components: Plastic berries (India), cow pads (Jura), waste paper (Venice), baobab seeds (Australia), beech, elder and magnolia branches (Uster), thorns (Almeria), nylon blossoms (one-dollar-shop), pigs’ teeth (Indonesia), seaweed (Seoul), orange peel (Migros shop), fertilizer crystals (home grown), pigeons’ bones (San Staë), silk buds (Stockholm), cattail (Ettiswil), cats’ tails (China), celery roots (Montreal), virility rind (Caribbean), wild bore quills (zoo), banana leaves (Murten), rubber snakes (Cincinnati)...

The Vegetative Nervous System
Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf, since 2006
The vegetative nervous system is a permanent installation in the 20 metre high entrance hall of the museum kunst palast. You can look at it from different levels.

Its ends branch out into pillars, railings, walls and ceilings where they join the body “museum”. They stimulate it and give the necessary impulses.

Unimpressed by will or order the vegetative nervous system (the autonomic nervous system) works autonomously in the body and takes decisions independently. Luckily - if human beings had to initiate the control of all the organs intellectually they would never have had the time to invent the refrigerator. Autonomous actions are the fertilizer of the inner garden.



Tornado Diaries 2008












Last friday eve a tornado spun through downtown ATL on it's way to my neighborhood, Cabbagetown , one of the oldest neighborhoods in Atlanta. I live in the old Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill built over a hundred years ago. We live across the street from the Oakland cemetary with some of the oldest and most beautiful trees in the city. Nothing quite like experiencing the rapid rearranging that can happen with the the strength and speed of nature...always reminding us about the impermance of organic life. So after , I find myself thinking of and gravitating towards anything creative, positive and uplifting...hense the new blog with enticing bits of catnip for others to enjoy.