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Earth Pinata (how to make an environmental impact)
During one of the first friday artwalks in Spokane, WA I set up my earth pinata so that people could participate. My approach to the piece was how to bring conscious awareness to the issue of pollution/population. So I collected the trash that I found around town and filled the pinata. To peoples surprise (expecting the usually generous donation of candy) expectations were not meet but rather a shift in thinking became the focus. I believe that I am not separate from this problem I simply believe in a collective solution.
Sea Glass Glove
After collecting sea glass from coast to coast, I eventually was able to put this project to an end (a deep end). In Aboriginal thought elders taught their children that it was not the object that held worth but the essence that the object made you feel was the kept possession. I often think of this tiny treasure (sea glass glove) and wonder if it has been found. With the intention if found that it will might create the same joy it brought to me.
MOMENT
sketch for larger installation project
Beauty and the Beast
In the summer of 2005, I took a journey to the coast of Maine where I lived in a tent and worked at the kitchen of a craft school. I was the healthiest and happiest I had felt in years. As my time twindled away and fall was among us I packed my things for my journey back to Washington (where I lived at the time). During my journey back something changed I started breaking out on my face (this swelling lasted 8 months). I have suffered with eczema since my adolescent years but not to this extreme. Every week It would start to heal and then break out all over again. This began to weigh on my psyche and for the first time in my life I got to feel true humiliation. As the months went by I began to be less social to the point where I could barely carry a conversation. My overall health was sinking and my faith dimmed. Until one day I no longer could deal and I muscled up some inner strength and healed myself within a month. This video is photographs and drawings I made during this period. I would like to dedicated this video to all my beloveds who were there for me during this hardship.
