MEDIA ALERT: “This is a Sacred Place”: A Community Eco-Arts Project as part of the Arts Sonoma 09 Festival

“This is a Sacred Place” (TIASP), is a community eco-arts arts project highlighting the links between art, place, community and the imperative for humanity to reclaim the earth as our sacred home.



EVERYONE IS WELCOME! The goal is for participants to photograph places that represent the beauty and sacredness of the natural environment along with the TIASP symbol (see below.) Places can be anywhere we see them: home, work, on vacation, at play…anywhere.
How: Everyone can identify their sacred place with a bio-degradable sticker and post their photographs of the sacred place on the TIASP Facebook page at http://www.tiasp.org/ . The resulting images will be available for all to enjoy. No address is needed, so the location of your sacred space can remain a secret.



What: An opportunity to honor the sacredness of the natural world. Photographs of Sacred Places will be displayed on the web and at the TIASP Headquarters during the Arts Sonoma 09 Festival, August 29-October 4, 2009.

When: Photographs can be posted on the web now through October 4, 2009. In addition, three events in Sonoma County will bring people together for an opening and closing hands-on ceremonies, and third event to bring together people to build labyrinths (creating a new sacred place!) in their community.

FREE EVENTS:

• Opening Ceremony/Make a Stone Sculpture- Saturday August 29, 2009 5-8pm
  A family-friendly event celebrating the start of “Sacred Place” by creating art with natural materials. Have your work photographed and included on the TIASP website. People of all ages are welcome and remember “everyone is an artist”. Hosted at The Painted Door Gallery, 421 2nd St. Petaluma, CA 94952.


• Build a Labyrinth in Your Community - Sunday September 20, 2009
  A location in Santa Rosa will be announced. For information about how to build a labyrinth in your community, contact us and check back at the website http://www.tiasp.org/ for more information.


• Closing Ceremony/Community Picnic at Shollenberger Park, Petaluma Sunday October 4, 2009

www.saveshollenberger.com/
http://www.tiasp.org/
http://www.sonomaarts.com/artssonoma.html

July 10, 2009 Update

Hi,

I've been lost in the world of gallery ownership and PhD studies since my last post.

I intend to post once a week from now until my dissertation research is completed.

Here's my plate. Somehow it all connects like a web. Life is Good!

• This is a Sacred Place: An Eco-Art Project for the Global Community
  Finally the TIASP project is getting underway....http://www.tiasp.org/
  
• Down to Earth Women for a Sustainable Future: An Art Based Co-0perative Inquiry.
  A PhD candidate at Cailifornia Institute of Integral Studies CIIS
  
  The Topic The Approach The Method
  
• The Painted Door - A Gallery of Contemporary Aboringinal Art and Othe Unique Visions
  421 2nd St, Petaluma, CA 94952 707-762-3296 info@the-painted-door.com
  

Body/Mind Wisdom

vmay 2005

" There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the [universe]" Rene Jules Dubois

Connections to the Land Art of the Dreaming

When speaking or painting a dreaming story the traditional owner refers to a living ontology that links pre-history and the distant future in the present. The artists perceive themselves to be inside their country and paint themselves as their country; the land features, the tracks between water holes, the mythic songlines of supernatural beings before time, and so on.

Neglected Places

I want to pay attention to places that have been radically disturbed.
Riding up Wilson Hill on the way home from Point Reyes today I pulled off into the dusty place on the side of the road. The view of Petaluma from this overlook is spectacular. I look out over the brown hills spotted with dark oaks and scrub in the ravines, A hazy sky from the many wildfires burning in Northern California, and the busy web of roads and patchwork of buildings following the 101 freeway in the center of the small valley. I breathe in the expansive sight and the quite space around me before looking down at my feet. The grassy bank that leads down about four feet to the weathered barbed wire fence is littered with trash. I have thought to clean this place many times, but I would need gloves to protect me from broken glass and human waste. I know many people come here to enjoy this view. Why do they leave trash behind? I tie a small TIASP tag onto the fence with wire. I will return with gloves to clean up this sacred place.

I am a Sacred Place

My body gives and nurtures life
I live in a
sacred place
The land where my house sits
The road my car travels on
This town was built on the Marshlands
of the Petaluma River – The sacred home
of millions of critters and
humans
past and present.
The sun shines on me everyday
The rain and
wind and soil
The food I eat
The birds and moles
Fox and deer.
The rocks and trees
The weeds in my garden
We are sacred

All
of us

Trees

"For seven days and seven nights [the buddha] sat in meditation supported by the tree. During the seventh night he was tormented by every possible distraction of the mind. Mara, the voice of delusion challenged him ferociously, asking what right he had to sit by the fig tree seeking truth. To counter the force of ignornace, he touched his right hand to the earth. Whith theearth and tree as witness, the powerful realization of interdependence was revealed." (in Terrapsychology by Craig Chalquist)

“Sometimes a tree can tell you more than can be read in a book.” (C G Jung)