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| Art as Inquiry
…the place where one's deep gladness meets the deep hunger of the world. My vocation is making art, primarily performance, as a means of inquiry. As an artist, I look for the place of meeting between my deep aesthetic gladness and the deep needs of this world I am part of. The root inquiry in my work is, “How do I live an undivided life?” - a life that expresses individual creativity, spiritual commitment and community engagement on an everyday basis. I have carried this question since living in Bali as a teenager in the 1970's. (click on early roots)
What do I know after 3-1/2 decades of artmaking that might be useful to a group of Hmong teenage girls or a roomful of insurance agents? How might I creatively contribute to the wellbeing of a specific community? (click on People Places Connections, The Southeast Asian Dance Project, Spirit of Tibet, Pathways) 2) The Threshold Between Art and Everyday Life What motivates me to create? What motivates other people? What genuinely supports a creative life? |
Of all the aesthetic and contemplative forms I have studied (or made-up), what actually cultivates wise and caring hearts and minds? (click on Spirit of Tibet, The Intuition Project) 4) Social Identity Who am I? ...in this time? ...this gender? ...these relationships? ...this place? ...this body? For an example of my earlier performance work around these concerns, click on Shadow to Frame. |
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The Spaces Between... The sum of these inquiries is the question I brought home from Bali, “How do I live an undivided life?” The closest thing I have found to an answer so far is this: by moving in the spaces between... …the space between self and other, …because when we really enter the spaces between…we discover there really is no separation at all. |
1) Artmaking as Community ExchangeContinue on to collaboration
