Return - Solstice 2011, Port Townsend, WA

Return  

The sun moves toward us now,

Returning.

I think of life as a spiral path.

Experience keeps coming around,

We change and remain the same.

Like the tides,

Like our breath,

Changing the landscape of our perspective.

What is possible at one time is not possible in another,

As if we travel in a maze of invisible doorways,

Passages,

And stepping stones.

Their appearance depends upon our choices,

And actions.

A phrase posted on a wall reads,

The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing.

Later, I can’t remember the exact words,

So it becomes,

The main thing is to remember the main thing.

I’ve heard it said, that when we argue with reality,

We will never win.

But some things are true.

Everything changes.

The sun returns.

And to this window,

I, along with materials, return.

Rubbing up against each other differently,

Creating a another story,

An evolving story,

In this path of Return.

 

Installation created for BaddHabit, December, 2011
1005 Lawrence Street, Port Townsend, WA

Creative/Reflective Workshop, New Years Eve, 1-5pm, Port Townsend, WA

Create a Totem &

Illuminate your New Year

Using Art and Writing

 In this supportive workshop environment I will invite you to:

Review your past year... 

Shake out any remaining nutrients...

Let the past go with appreciation & kindness...

Begin your year with fresh insight.

Create a symbolic object, 

As a container & reminder of your intentions for 2012.

In this process you will have the opportunity to

Imagine your year to come,

Explore your wishes,

Determine your vision &

Embolden your intentions through art making.

Stoke up your creativity for the New Year &

Bring Art to Life.

 

Contact me for more info and to reserve your space.

Saturday, December 31, 2011

1-5 pm

Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA

FALL -- New Installation at Badd Habit, Port Townsend, WA

 

Falling

We fall in,

Fall out,

Fall over. 

Leaves fall.
Antlers fall.
Darkness falls.

We say: 

We fall asleep,
Fall from grace, 
Fall off the wagon.

Things fall between the cracks,
We wait for the other shoe to fall,

United we stand, divided we fall, 

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

The sky is falling.
Music rises and falls.

And as for ladders, 
They give us a choice. 
~~~

Installation created for BaddHabit, November, 2011
1005 Lawrence Street, Port Townsend, WA

If you come to a fork in the road, do you take it?

    'Forks'.  Night view.

A visual metaphor weaving between memory and possibility, imagination and actuality.

Installation includes discarded slides of past life and art documentation.

Installation created for BaddHabit, September, 2011
1005 Lawrence Street, Port Townsend, WA

9 Images Available for Sale

Ed Riddell is a wonderful photographer and friend (from the black and white film and darkroom days) who recently launched this great site making high quality photographic images available very inexpensively.  See what you think at http://www.lefotografie.com

They also have a online magazine and articles about the photographs and photographers with whom they work.  I'm honored to be included.

The nine images below are now available at lefotografie 

Stone Figure, AK

 The Blue Rope, AK

 String circle on leaves, HI

 A show of hands, WA

Floating stones on broken ice, WY

Survey tape to hole in stone, HI

Mussel shells with incoming tide, AK

Floating string circle, HI

Hose spiral, CA

WakeFull

An installation for Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Art Outside

Ivy vines creep up the trees and 1,300 red pipe cleaners hang down.

What's Sleeping?

Installation created for BaddHabit, April, 2011
1005 Lawrence Street, Port Townsend, WA

GuestHouse - ThreadSong

What is important for us in our role of ‘being human’? 


How do we navigate within a sea of constant change? 


 
I imagine that we are much larger than the thoughts and emotions 

that pass through our inner landscape.  

And I envision an invisible thread 

weaving through the whole length of our life.
~
This installation grew out of these questions and the desire 
to create a visual metaphor.  I draw
reference from the poems of


“The Guest House” by Rumi and 

“The Way It Is” by William Stafford. 


 

  This window display was created for BaddHabit, February 2011
1005 Lawrence Street, Port Townsend, WA

Indra's Net & A Harvest of Falls

Indra's Net & A Harvest of Falls

632 Tyler Street, Port Townsend, Washington, USA

The experience of falling apart and coming together makes up the territory of 'change', with the potential for transformation poised to create new form.  During this 'fall' season, this installation intends to put the idea of a "harvest of falls" in a mythic context.   Within each of the jigsaw puzzle pieces on the wall, resides a small mirror which catches the light and glitters at the crossing lines, inviting viewers to see themselves as a part of Indra's Net. 

“Far away in the heavenly abode of the great god Indra, there is a wonderful net which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions. In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities, the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each "eye" of the net, and since the net itself is infinite in dimension, the jewels are infinite in number. There hang the jewels, glittering like stars in the first magnitude, a wonderful sight to behold. If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it, we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net, infinite in number. Not only that, but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels, so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurring.”

by Francis Harold Cook
from the book Hua-Yen Buddhism: The Jewel Net of Indra

~~~

http://www.glorialamson.com

Threads - Portland Building Installation

Threads
Installation by Gloria Lamson

Everything changes.
Structures and frameworks fall apart and come together;
relationships begin and end, shift and transform.
Our vision of what we want is challenged by the actuality of what is.
I question how we find our way amidst the confusion
of shifting ground within and around us.
How does new life grow out of broken forms of the past?
What is important now? What is needed?
What can be, a next step?
I imagine our questions circle us around the dark unknowing
to stir new realities into being.
And in this process fresh vision and form begin to grow.
In the words of William Stafford,

The Way It Is
There's a thread you follow.
It goes among things that change. But it doesn't change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can't get lost.
Tragedies happen; people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time's unfolding.
You don't ever let go of the thread.
William Stafford

For more information use link below.
http://www.racc.org/public-art/threads-installation-artist-gloria-lamson-portland-building-august-9-%E2%80%93-september-3-2010

This installation through September 3 (6pm)
Viewing hours: 7 am to 6 pm, Monday – Friday. The Portland Building is located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland. For more information and a website that provides images, proposals and statements of all the Portland Building installations featured since 1994 go to http://racc.org/public-art/installation-space or call the installation space project manager
Keith Lachowicz at 503-823-5404.

Glimpses of Illumination - Port Townsend Public Library Installation through July

Installation - Windsong at Port Angeles Fine Art Center - Art Outside

Windsong
An installation at Port Angeles Fine Art Center for Art Outside

http://www.pafac.org/exhibitions/art-outside.html

One of the hallmarks of Art Outside has always been to strive for a balance between sculptural objects and site interventions, with both approaches highly sensitive to the natural environment. The five and a half acres of second-growth forest has been a friendly host to artists’ imaginations.