Openings Connecting: ROCKS enRAPTured by Dreams

Saturday, December 31, 2011

ROCKS enRAPTured by Dreams

FIND MY DREAMS ALL WRITTEN IN CRYSTALS
This year's RAPT rocks were given 'names'.
above and below is the first of this season. i delivered a group of fourteen to Folio today for next week's open house.

'Dreams': sumi ink on parchment, gold leaf, text

"SILENCE
is intensified into a stone: broken circles are closed"

SECRETS HIDDEN
above, with messages and worry stones tucked away

THE ICE STORM ENDED HAPPILY
(above and below: silver dust and wire, pearls, glass)

PROMISE KEPT
(above with beach glass)

GOOD NEWS TO ME
(above with bamboo and reed)

ETERNAL LOVE
(above and below)

VALLEY OF THE MOON, 1300 A.D.
(N.M. pottery chard)

PRESENTATION

START THE FIRE
(above)

love is light
(hidden copper heart and script)

WORRY FREE
(old pocket worry stone captured in the bamboo wrap)

a few laid out at home for their "shoot" on our yard's new hardscaping....

8 comments:

ValeriannaNovember 25, 2011 at 4:53 PM
Wonderful group of stones!
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ArtPropelledNovember 26, 2011 at 1:19 AM
.... and I'm enraptured!
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UnknownNovember 26, 2011 at 8:24 AM
I love these!
Can I have a favorite?
the ice storm ended happily
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Blue Sky DreamingNovember 26, 2011 at 9:17 AM
You have, in your magic, changed these stones into delicate beauties.
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rivergardenstudioNovember 27, 2011 at 4:03 PM
Oh Neva, I am enraptured too, what amazing things you have done here with your wrapping and grouping of these stones. They are like poems to me. I want to hold them in my hands. Happy Thanksgiving, I am so thankful for you as well.
roxanne
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layersNovember 29, 2011 at 9:10 AM
Hey Neva, you know how much I love your 'rapt' wrapped rocks.. they are all wonderful.. I treasure the ones I have here. Am interested to find out more about the 'worry' stones.
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Jill ZaheerDecember 10, 2011 at 10:44 AM
Neva,
What a beautiful collection of rock artworks that you've created here. Each one has it's own magical feel, with peaceful grace and such a unique quality all their own. They are gorgeous alone or in groups. Wonderfully creative- really love good news to me and silence - although start the fire and eternal love catch my heart as well. As you can see, they all touch some part of my heart! Happiest of holidays! xo
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Velma BolyardMarch 8, 2012 at 6:05 PM
oooh, i like these stones. thank you.
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FOUR DIRECTIONS/FOUR VISIONS: Two Graces: First showing for me, JUNE 3, 2011

With no directions home, I found Taos in the late 60s. It felt like home immediately. It still does. I know this sentiment is familiar to countless others.

The mountain stopped me in my tracks, and I stayed for several years. Since that time, I circle back annually.

To me, that circle is symbolic of this body of work at Two Graces. This is a time in my life when I've been fortunate enough to experiment with art making. Not surprisingly, I found myself drawn back to the images in the Ektachrome slides that I'd taken in the early 80s of Chaco Canyon, the San Francisco de Asis Church, dusty roads, and the ever changing skies of Northern New Mexico. The spirit of this adobed land lingers in my core and manifests itself within these works.

This past Michigan winter was spent creating enlarged negatives from my thirty year old slides, pulling part of my past into the present via today's tools of scanner and computer. Using traditional silver-gelatin darkroom processes, these resurrected and modified negatives acquired a new life. The majority of these prints are the result of this mediated reincarnation.

The smaller images took me into photographic processes from the mid-1800s. These handmade platinum/palladium prints are created coating vellum, for translucency, with these metal salts and exposing them to ultraviolet light. They are then bathed in the alchemy of the darkroom. The tonal qualities are unique in each print. Finally, 24k gold is layered to the backs of the prints, emanating the warmth, glow, and depth of these beloved places.