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and the judge queried, “So this is performance art?”
I was standing in a woodland park in Lenoir, NC for an outdoor sculpture show. Judges don’t usually speak to the artists, but this judge clearly was looking for a toe hold with which to judge my sculpture. I stood there looking at the children zooming all around the fairies with their crepe paper wands…
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What is it like to be human?
This piece is the first in a series called, “Changing Perspectives”. It has no up and no down, and can be shifted to have four orientations. The piece offers a focus to journey into meditation. The central thrust of the series seeks to provide that moment when a change in perspective releases rigid thought…
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Of Pearls and Potatoes
Of Pearls and Potatoes i live in a forest. i was going into town and on the mountain road, high up, i had a sudden vision…some call the “vision experience” a hit, some call it a download, some call it the whispering voice in your head, some call it information from another dimension, one’s higher…
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tribe: the small communities of earth
In 2012 I created a sculpture with five elements. The stones are made from Japanese pyrophyllite and they are all shaped differently. I had been making pieces that could be oriented in different ways, that had no top or no bottom for some time, and this was the first piece that had so many…
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The Community of Earth
Like my art, this blog is the sum result of following my higher guidance. I was practicing meditation and was called upon to counsel. So I gathered the energies of place, the devas, elementals, the spirits of the ancestors, my guides and master teachers in a circle of sound in my gallery. For many minutes…
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Carol Mackay Mertz 