Today marks the passing of many months since I last posted on this blog.

I have been engaged elsewhere.  I have been considering the experiences I had with PLEASEtouch, processing them and collecting images for posting and commenting, and will be posting more about  soon.

I have also decided to expand this blog to now encompass all that I (we) make, as PLEASEtouch, as a  title, easily enfolds both the concepts of all the work as well as the goal for the work - for you to touch it and have it touch you, physically, energetically...

And if I haven't discussed yet why I am moving into saying "we make" instead of "I make", I promise I will soon.  Hint.  It is about the connection between muse, material and me.

To continue to catch you up, I quickly created a pop up gallery in the second studio I rented (temporarily) at ACCA (Artworks Center for Contemporary Art) after completing work to be included in PLEASEtouch, the gallery installation, and before my time in that studio was up in December.  Some videos of that pop up gallery are posted on my Instagram site carlisle.studioshunyata if you would like to see them.  

After the pop up gallery closed, and PLEASEtouch closed, I was busy striking both, packing, storing and making room for the work contained in both.

I then began working on two upcoming exhibition pieces. One, Street Shrine I: Love without Power/Power without Love, is a work inspired by an essay by Dr. Marin Luther King, and dedicated as a shrine, to the pineal gland and it's providing the possibility of our connecting to the divine.

It is a piece for a group exhibition of studio artists (and invited guest artists) at ACCA.  The title of the show is Power and it opens at ACCA this Friday (April 8th). I have my own little space for my work which I am now expanding into a small installation that will include a visitor interaction component, lighting and hopefully sound.  These are all last minute additions, a response to having a space independent of the general gallery space, but all are also dependent on how much I can complete before Friday.

Because I also have an application for a residency in Santa Fe due on Sunday April 10th that I have yet to complete the writing and image selection for.

Busy time.  

Once Street Shrine I: Love without Power/Power without Love is installed, I will begin work on my next piece for an 4 person group exhibition in September titled Elementals.  My (our) work is called Water/Falling.  More on that one later.

I end this posting by letting you know that the next posting will be all about Street Shrine I: Love without Power/Power without Love.  The posting will include a discussion about the work, it's inspiration, the materials used, etc. that will be available via a QR code to visitors of the exhibition as well as you.  It will include images of the work and perhaps a video.  I will also document the mini-installation for Instagram postings (again that is at carlisle.studioshunyata) and may consider it for my residency image selection as well.

I thank you for reading my blog postings and hope that they spark and perhaps even activate you to recognize your own power to respond, to inspire, to "... be of the world and in the world.",  as the main character in the film Sabrina stated (the original one, starring Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden, not the remake) .  For some reason that line has stayed with me.  I should and will look up the writer of that line and post it for you next time.

Cheers!

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