ASCEN-TIALS 2018

Exhibited at Gallery 114 in 2018 Portland Oregon USA

   

'Ascen-tials'
2018
Pencil on Paper, Oak Frame and Glass
18inch (h) x 12inch (w)

 'Divi-dens' 

2018 

Silicone, Rust Stain, Graphite on Cotton Cloth , Oak Frame, Glass

32 inch (h) x 32 inch (w)

'Directors' 

2018 

Steel, Candles and Wicks 

57 inch (h) x 18 inch (w)

...potential is appropriated and shaped by the context it emerges in...

how we look at this has the ability for potential to become what it could be..

'Flip Flap'

2018

Color Pencil, Candles, Steel, Oak , Graphite on Paper, White Frame and Glass

32,5 inch (h) x 23,5 (w)

'Dawn of day'

 2018 

Candles, Wicks, Rust Stain, Cotton Cloth, Wooden Stretcher, Graphite , Oak Frame and Glass

28 inch (h) x 28 inch (w)

'Trans-Later'
2017
Color Pencil, Graphite and Acrylic on Paper
60 inch (h) x 70 inch (w)

 'Reversible Drawing with White Oak Leaf graphite rubbing- Olive Oil', White Frame and Glass
2018
Mixed Media
24 inch (h) x 18 inch (w)

'Premonition'

FILM

2013

Edition of 5.

Artist Proof: James Reed

1/5: Underculture Contemporary - PE , SA

2/5: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, PE, SA

3/5: Wayne Matthews- Curator, JHB, SA

'Mine the Gap'

2016

Acrylic, Color Pencil , Candles and Graphite on Canvas, Oak Frame

28 inch (h) x 28 inch (w)

"Ascen-tials' : Gallery Talk 7.14.18

You may have questions, remarks, observations, feed back for the Q & A part of the agenda?
It may be useful to take note of what may emerge along the way.
You may even find these two questions useful to try and categorize your notes?

What do I recognize of my conditioned mode?

What do I recognize of my emerging image?

I invite you to leave your preconceptions, drama and fear outside.
I invite you to make this an empty space-
experiencing, listening, thinking, wondering, watching
I invite you to be present.

Looking at the work, the talk,
Looking at the way you look at it- you may or may not relate?
Most importantly, it is what comes to mind for you in this context, making sense of the circumstances.
What knowledge methods and content you are relying on?
The 'ground' you stand on?
What glimpses may be appearing?

This is not the room we want to be in!
-the room of appropriation
-the room of disconnection
-the room of anesthesia
-the room of numbness
-the room of distraction
-the room of delusion
But it is the room we live in, we sit in.

It is the room of the essentials we live by to ascend to somewhere?

I would like to now call this room-
The conditioned mode!

I am in search of the unconditioned mode that enables our emerging image to live in the world?



...
Candle action with striped woolen hat-
moment of silence, hat  on head, blue candle placed between index and third finger in left hand and place upright on crown of head while reading the following quote  from Substance book (2006/7) by Shelley Sacks *note that the word vision was taken out because the cultural context and association with the word*:
...'

'…
This Emerging Relational Image- our unique and valuable human ability- the Social Sculpture:
It is very subtle
It happens in context
It takes a long time
It cannot be documented

What we see here in this room- is an appropriation of this very unique valuable human ability.


How can we observe our conditioned mode?
Its patterns?
How it appropriates?
How it shadows the emergent image?
-curiosity?
-practice?
-taking note?
-examples?

How can we observe our emerging image?
-curiosity?
-practice?
-taking note?
-examples?
..here are some:
Jenny Ord: 'The relevance of not knowing'
Kim Smith of GPSEN: ' Triumph of the commons'
Shelley Sacks of the SSRU:' The ability to respond and Instruments of consciousness'
Joseph Beuys: 'Expanded concept of art - Social Sculpture'
Henri Bortoft:' Life long study of wholeness and clarifying for us now Goethes' way'
Johan Wolfgang Goethe:' Noticing, shaping and working with science in the first person'.
Joel Magnuson…
Who in my mind has pointed out - in ' From Greed to Wellbeing- a Buddhist Approach to Resolving our Economic and Financial Crises'- the conditioned mode and his emerging image'
Joel   is an independent economist based in Portland , OR, USA.
He is the Author of  FROM GREED TO WELLBEING: A Buddhist approach to resolving our economic and financial crises,     Mindful Economics: How the US Economy Works, Why It Matters, and How It Could Be Different   and  The Approaching Great Transformation: Toward a Liveable Post- Carbon Economy, as well as numerous articles in journals and anthologies in the US, Europe and Japan
Joel is a  GPSEN (Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network) Sustainability Leadership award-winner.