Carriers of the Truth

Griot by Elizabeth Gordon

"As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all. When we deal with one another, we are dealing not merely with our human personalities but also with the unseen but ever-present throng of ideas, visions, stories, poems, songs, sculptures, art-as-facts that crowd the temple of consciousness waiting to be born."

Quote by Julia Cameron from Inspirations/meditations from the Artist's Way

Morean Art Center Members Show/September 2011

The show was a great success with a really nicely hung exhibition. This peace is entitled "There is A World", it is a further study in the series of on relativity and the String theory. The title comes from the thought that there are parallel universes..that can be simultaneous. So there can be a world where Elivis exits and there can be a world where he never existed.

My plan is to show all the pieces on this theme in one showing.

A Wondrous Problem

Here is a part of the obstacle of transferring from

one media to another. This series of works, started with a charcoal drawing I did in a workshop at Arrowmont Art Center in Gatlingburg, Tennessee.

I took a week of workshops, one of which, was mono print. After our initial drawing we put a sheet of plexi glass over the work, then responded with printers inks and painting tools, then that was run through a printer press with paper. The result is the color print you see on the right.
What then is the problem? How do I covert the piece to glass or clay?

Each media has its own properties and neither will behave like charcoal nor paint. Clay may be the easiest, but do I make it flat or three dimensional? Do I color it with bright glazes or leave it monotone, do I raku it? Glass would be all together different and more difficult. Would I have to do one section at a time, and then fuse them all together, could I even get the curved shapes? That is the wonder of it all...what can I do, will it do what I want, and will I be as successful as with media I feel more comfortable with.?

A side bar...the name Griot is the name of an African story teller. When I saw pictures of tree buds in an plant book it captivated me at how much they looked liked story telling sticks and art I have seen from Africa. Can you see the influence?