My friend, artist Pam Jolly Haile, whom I know from Art & Soul Studio, Nashville Nonviolent Communication and the Vanderbilt Meditation Group, is pictured far left at my home during a recent open house. What is pictured here to the right of her is a moving project described by Pam below:
"I have been
attending Watkins College of Art, Design & Film for over 10 years, slowly working
towards my BFA degree. I am executing a
large art project that I will be exhibiting for my graduation show in April.
I have set the goal of collecting 3000 thumbprints to be displayed as a
single circular piece. My intention is to make a statement that we are
all One, though individuals. It will require approximately
that quantity (3000 thumbprints) to construct a piece of a diameter that measures the same as the
average height of all humans–that's 5' 5 1/2".
"We are collecting
prints on at least 8 types of paper to bring texture and richness to the piece,
also representative of our human community. Our
project is shaping up to represent the beautiful diversity that makes up our
world. We have children of all ages, ninetysomethings, men, women,
various cultures, people with autism and other disAbilities, meditating groups and varying geographical regions
represented–and that's just what I know of so far."
3/27 ADDENDUM: NOTE CHANGES IN DATES & LOCATIONS: You can see the finished piece in Nashville's Watkins School Gallery
beginning Fri., April 26th through Wed., May 8 except for May 3 and 4, when it will exhibit at the TAL (Tennessee Art League)'s new location, 219
5th Avenue North, (next to The Arts Company). Cool, huh?!
#WeAreAllOne #One
Interesting that this morning, my meditation practices kept directing me back to this reality of One. From my teacher David Kenneth Wheaton’s Journey with a Modern Mystic on Forgiveness: “A mystic stays in a state of mercy, so that she is able to treat the human beings she encounters with compassion no matter what their state may be.
“The internal merciful awareness of the state of consciousness is a continuous realization that we are all one. And in our one-ness we are always in the state of mercy. It is only when we enter into the illusion that we lose this awareness.” http://journeywithamodernmystic.com/mercy-forgiveness/
So cool! Brilliant creative expression at work in this story and art peice. I can see this magnificent piece coming alive one thumbprint at a time. Thank you Leisa for sharing and giving me the opp to be one of the thumbprints at your Open House. Blessings on this project!
Thanks, Ginny. I’m glad that you got to be a part of this. Yeah, this is up your alley! 🙂