The current show at Life Force Arts Center is called Art,
Play and Ritual. It opened Friday, May
6, 2016 and will be running until September 20.
The very nature of art allows it to speak individually and this particular
theme of Art, Play and Ritual allowed the featured artists a broad interpretation
of what the words art, play and ritual convey to them and how it influences
their work.
Kumar & Nicole Javvaji collaborated on the piece Dancing
with the Stars. Nicole related that they
were both very surprised with the results of the final piece. They weren’t really sure what to make of it
at first, leaving it up to the audience to have their own connection. To me it was like a great adventure of Baron
Munchausen perhaps on one of his escapades to the moon. It is a fantastical piece full of wonder,
adventure and just enough chaos to draw you completely within its story.
Elijah Thompson paints in pure energy. Cake in particular captures a childlike
hunger for sweetness, the desire for fulfillment found in adulthood, and the
final transcendence of acceptance which may in fact be sweeter than sugar laced
giggle inducing cake.
Cake by Elijah
Thompson
Mary Burton was simply “drawn to the goat” in a study of
pyrography. It reminded her of her Aries
mother. When she was finished with the
goat himself, she just decided “he needed a garden” and designed a frame to
complete Goat Craft.
John Henderson studies ancient art and his drawn to creating
his own unique pieces with reflections of the ancient works that move him. His work is fully sensory. It’s not a static two dimensional pieces, so
before a work is finished John dances his dances over the work with his hands
making sure that the piece doesn’t just look right, it has to feel right as
well. Poseidon’s Trident shows the flow
of his work.
Christopher Bednash is another sensory artist on a mission
to raise human awareness. His giant
globe is currently displayed at Life Force but is usually on a matrimony tour
so that people can celebrate loving intimacy with our planet Earth.
Earth Wedding with Christopher Bednash
Beatriz E. Ledesma is showing two of her twelve series of
mandalas. A native of Buenos Aires,
Argentina is an artist inspired by indigenous pieces and drawn to use her own
creative voice to create modern and unique works.
Lorraine Moretti was inspired by Venus to create a three dimensional
tribute using stones, shells and sea sponges.
Anna Applegate’s piece Berith Rides to the Sabbat really
demonstrates the idea behind the Art, Play and Ritual. She related that she created a ritual space
and opened herself to the Goetic Spirits.
When she felt that the painting was finished, she discovered through
research that the colors she had chosen, the horse partner, and the sigil
design accurately depicted the ancient spirit of Berith without her having any
fore knowledge of Him.
Berith Rides to the Sabbat by Anna Applegate
Art is a
discovery and that in and of itself is often a ritual. Art moves emotion with us and allows a story to emerge from
within.
On Wednesday June 1 at the Life Force Arts Center I will be
using these and the other works on display to lead an Art Ritual invoking the
child spirit. We will use the artwork as
inspiration to tell the story, and in the process, discover our own story
within.
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