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    Archive for January 2009


    Watered Down Stimulus Package!

    January 29th, 2009 — 12:35pm

     

    When it rains - a larger perspective

    When it rains - a larger perspective

    Obama, we the people elected you because of your promise of change in the ways we need change from dealing with and caring about the environment to healing the profound wounds to our constitution and legal system that were inflicted during the Bush-Cheney regime to healing and bringing balance and oversight back into the financial system to repowering our country with alternative renewable energy sources to rethinking and reconstructing our food and health delivery systems to promotes health for the Earth and for the people to bringing to justice the people who abused our laws and justice system in the past eight year debacle to………….the problems we need to address are endless.  We have suffered long enough under the weight of conservative fears and limited perspectives.  We need new expanded vision enacted immediately to save this planet and to help all of us who are, have been or will be suffering from the greedy, short-sighted, uninspired, fear based ideas and people who have been in power.  How dare you spend time negotiating with Republicans who had so much responsibility for bringing about the dark reality we and the whole world are living in today especially when you have all the majority you need.  We elected you to move, to act now on all that is so pressing.  We have had it with watered down, ineffective, legislation and action.  We need an effective leader and leadership who honestly address the massive problems facing us.  We do not need more politics.  The old ways are dead in the water.   Continue reading »

    Comment » | Alabaster, Politics

    Friends Like Helen

    January 27th, 2009 — 6:51pm
    Helen and 'Dilemma' Bond

    Helen and 'Dilemma' Bond

    I consider Helen a close and dear friend and I am honored to say so.  I love her for all kinds of reasons which I’ll list shortly but right now I must tell you how and the setting in which we met because it gives insight into both of us.

    I am Jewish, I was raised Jewish in Fall River, Massachusetts.  My father was a ‘pillar of the community’.  My grandparents migrated from Russia, fleeing persecution.  I feel a committment to all those who have gone before me. I feel a committment to all those who go ahead of me.  So, even though  I am a strict spiritualist, not religious at all and not a practicing Jew (even though I vibrate Jewish), I raised my kids with a Jewish education and participated in the creation of a Jewish community in Sedona and the Verde Valley of Arizona where I live. I needed to pass on the heritage and all that that implies onto my kids.  I was compelled.   Which is what brought me to the Friday night service at which I met Helen for the first time. Continue reading »

    Comment » | Uncategorized

    HAPPY INAUGUARATION DAY!!

    January 20th, 2009 — 4:18pm

    Oh My G-d!  How good is today?  The nightmare is gone.  We have awakened in a new reality.  A reality of kindness and vision and gentleness.  This day of Barack Hussein Obama’s inauguration feels like a seed change to me, a shift of the deepest kind.  This moment marks our chance to save our Earth, our opportunity to bring dreams of living on the Earth and with each other into harmony and right relationship.

    We the people have taken and been given back our voice.  After years of having given our voices up, sold ourselves off to the devil and gleaned the consequences from doing so, we are and have the possibility of being empowered again.  So I speak up now and invite all to do the same.  My intention is for this blog to become a portal of expression and activism.  It’s what I can do.

    This past weekend we did the Carefree, Arizona Art and Wine Festival.  The weekend before the election!  I was pleased and surprised to see the place packed and people  interested.  It feels like warmth returning from a deep freeze on all useful activity.  Souls reentering after the deadness of the Bush-Cheney imprisonment.  Did you see?  Cheney couldn’t even walk out on his own today and I can only imagine and hope that Bush felt mortally embarrassed at the billions around the Earth who celebrated his exit.  Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!

    Comment » | Politics

    Another opening, another show……da de da-da,de da, de da

    January 15th, 2009 — 1:29pm
    'THE DILEMMA'!

    'THE DILEMMA'!

    We’ll be set up at the Carefree Art and Wine show this weekend and are very proud to introduce ‘THE DILEMMA’, Paul’s newest Doodleysquat, for the first time to the public. We decline responsibility if you somehow feel so attracted that you find yourself caught on it’s horns!

    To give you a little context, the Doodleysquats are our contemporary American version of Chinese house gods, spirit protectors.  They are sure to protect you and your home from whatever you might need protecting, i.e. tax collectors, mother-in-laws, bad vibe neighbors, whatever.  They are also the becoming extinct species of individual expression.

    We’ve gone through a rough time in this country for a while now.  The Doodleysquats have helped to protect us, working behind the scenes.  Powerful yet unrecognized.  The emergence of  ’The Dilemma’ into public view is a very good omen for all of us.  With ‘The Dilemma’ fully revealed for the first time and in full public view we can take an honest accounting of ourselves and commit to positive change.  With ‘The Dilemma’ as witness to our follies we can no longer hide lest we risk being caught on it’s horns!  Ouch!

    Comment » | Alabaster

    Upcoming Shows

    January 13th, 2009 — 12:33pm

    Well, it’s January 13th 2009.  One week to go before we can begin to see and feel the shift from this unresponsive, rigid, arrogant, criminal, greedy, crippling administration.  One week to go before the ice starts melting and before movement and actualizing new vision becomes possible.  One week to go before the idea of making a living as an artist becomes once again – viable.  

    We are 33 year professionals and have been hanging on here but let me tell you that we artists are the proverbial canary in the mineshaft.  Because we are right there ‘on the street’, with our fingers directly on the pulse of the economy we knew a year and a half ago what was coming down.  

    We have 5 shows coming up from now until the end of March here in Arizona.  Paul calls us ‘a full service Art business’.  Anyone who loves our work can find something they can afford.  We have carving kits for $30.00, my lastest Rose for $100,000.00, and much in between.  

    Look on our website for our ‘upcoming events’ and think about stimulating the economy and gracing your life with a gorgeous handmade, original Alabaster carving.

    See you soon. 

    Susan

    Comment » | Alabaster

    Art Sales Stimulate Economy

    January 11th, 2009 — 12:43pm

    I love beauty and love seeing people turn on to the beauty of our work.  It’s been sung that ‘Love makes the world go ’round’.  When someone  falls in love with my work enough to buy it with their money (their energy), our highest energies are exchanged.  This point of sale I consider to be a holy moment.  It’s transformational.  We are all changed, inspired and elevated.  Everyone’s experienced this, the high that comes from deeply connecting with a piece of art  and connecting to the artist that made it.  Our souls, both the artist’s and the buyer’s,  are nourished.

    In this culture we’ve lived out of priority and in fear for too long.  We need to get our priorities straight here.  Shy away from, refuse to buy plastic, disposable, manufactured, soul draining, ugly, dispensable, wasteful, frivilous STUFF!  Refuse to exchange your best energy – your money – for anything that will harm the Earth, harm your children, their health and their future.   BUY ART!   Fall in love, grace your lives, support and surround yourselves with beauty.  Nourish your souls.  Flourish the economy with your love not your fear.

    Comment » | Alabaster

    Blooming Alabaster Rose called ‘Decorative’!

    January 7th, 2009 — 10:39am

    New Pink RoseAlabaster is the only material on the planet that can describe a Rose that looks like it’s blowing in the wind because of it’s softness, color and translucency. I just finished carving my 19th Alabaster Rose in 33 years of being a professional carver. It’s the ‘Golden-Pink Sunset Rose’ carved from the most delicate of translucent Alabasters.

    A friend sent a picture of the piece to a friend who works in the Harvard museums. This is what she said….Hi Susan-
    A friend who works at one of the Harvard libraries/museums had this to say about my query re. getting your work into a museum:

    “As to your question regarding your friends carvings. The one in the image is a tour de force of the carver’s art; however, the problem is that this sort of thing, however striking, falls outside the modernist and post-modernist cannon. If it (or the equivalent, that is) was from 6th c. China, it would be a desirable work of art of interest to the Sackler Museum (but not the Peabody at all since it is entirely devoted to ethnographic art). This piece falls somewhere in the realm of contemporary decorative arts, and would have appealed strongly to my parents, both of whom were botanists, but is simply not the sort of thing that art museums are looking for, I’m sorry to say.”

    My response………what is this need to categorize and what is ‘decorative art‘? Is that like jewelry on a body? What used to be new, according to this woman i.e. modern, contemporary, now feels very mainstream – like been there, done that. These Roses are at the heart of my process which is a celebration of the stone, a stretching of the medium, a deepening of my skill, a full expression of my sense of beauty.

    What category does all that fit into?

    I invite comment, enlightenment, illumination on this topic of my Roses and our work. Please enjoy our website. The new Rose will be on there soon.

    Comment » | Alabaster

         

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