Progression & Participation

Gallery visitors accepted the invitation to re-imagine and re-assemble the space with materials from Nature. Co-creating is a skill to develop as humanity moves forward. Knowing what is around us, listening to the possibilites, playing with options to nurture our communities...all are part of our work. I notice what is placed and included in the boundaries and what is on the "borderlands."

Different forms of moss and lichen were placed in the four corners. At the very center a spiral (moon shell) appears and holds the movement that is happening inside this alchemical vessel (copper/Venus/love). There are really two vessels: the linear space and the rounded one containing more possibilities. The
large poppy seedhead holds sand in its crown...the soil, the fruitful darkness,
the possibilites of the fertile landscape. A copper/pearl/blueberry scepter
stands proudly in the corner in front of moss. A family of blueberries
encircles a white feather and buried pearls. A pearl's copper spiral weaves
inside a hole in a white shell. The little geode (crystal) coracle now holds
black sand - perhaps to transport that fertility to a new endeavor. The large
schist stones from the island of Iona in Scotland are ringed by shell, jasper,
Apache's tear and quartz. Moss "grows" again on its surface.

Thank you to each person who contributed to the new design. What do you think? The Earth Day art gallery will be open at Bayview corner, Whidbey Island, until Wednesday, April 23rd.