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Deeper at Artomatic: Tammy Vitale

June 14th, 2009

Tammy Vitale’s inspiration comes from many places — her own restlessness and boredom, the nature of the materials at hand and a drive to learn how to work with them, her dreams, and other artists’ work.  After I saw her work at last year’s Artomatic, I’ve been wanting to connect with her. Being an introvert, I have followed her blog and emailed her once or twice, but not actually met her face-to-face. When looking at her work, I get a sense of a “wild woman” or at least, one who has left behind the shackles of propriety for the freedom of wind swept plains.  I admit that is my own romantic vision when faced with her sculpture.

Tammy installing her wall at Artomatic

What is the relationship between your artwork and your spirituality?
My work, and my spirituality, such as it is, reflect each other and inform each other.  I am a Feminist…and of the age to remember what it was like before we took much for granted.  I remember divorcing my non-working husband in the mid-70s only to have him take all the credit with him as I was “just a wife.”  A long search through religions ended with arrival at the philosophy of the Tao de Ching and a blending of ideas to come up with what makes sense to me based in my own experiences.  In the 90s the book Women Who Run With Wolves sent me on an adventure to discover how story informs individuals, communities, states and nations and running all through that the aspects of the feminine divine, both manifested in the Goddess in all her aspects and in a study of the Anima.  My art is always and firstly a reclaiming of myself and an understanding that everything is connected, that the actions I take have consequences for me as well as for others, and that by changing myself I change the world.

DrawDownTheMoonHow do you translate your spiritual experience to your creativity?
I believe that the work is called by someone somewhere looking for that particular piece.  My job is to provide a conduit for the energy and then set out to find the person who called it in the first place.  The person recognizes the energy of the piece, buys it and takes it to its true home, and for as long as needed remains in dialogue with it as they live with it.  That’s my hope and belief.

In your artist statement, you talk about the artist as conduit for (divine) energy seeking to become concrete. What is that process like for you?
Take medium in hand and then get out the way (remove the intellect, go with the energy/feeling).  It can get stressful when something wants to be born and I can’t clear away psychic or temporal space for it to happen.  Or when I need to create and nothing comes through.  I’ve learned to live with it.

Maybe this is one of the reasons that Tammy’s work speaks to me. We both see our work as already belonging to someone.  There is a dynamic energetic pull between the person the artwork is for and the work itself, and the artist is the conduit for manifesting that vision, that object into this world. Not for themselves, but for the one who belongs to the work.

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What do you learn from making art?
Because glass and clay have similar propensity for doing things right and having things turn out wrong, or doing things wrong and having things turn out spectacularly (is that a word?), I learn regularly that this is life.  I don’t deserve the beauty or the failure, they just come…and they just go.  I learn to let go and trust the process and the path.  Most days I’m very grateful for this.  Some days not so much, but I get over it (eventually.  Sometimes I have to pout for a day or year or so).

You can see Tammy at Artomatic on the 2nd floor, Section 2.
Her blog is Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together, and her website is Sacred by Tammy Vitale.

Deeper at Artomatic: Alyson M. Olander

May 28th, 2009

Artomatic opens tomorrow and I’m imagining a series of post about artists whose work is informed and inspired by their spiritual journeys and interactions with the sacred all around them. Artists who dive deep into their souls and bring up images and visions to share of their journey. Artists who intentionally bring a spiritual dimension to their work.

My good friend Alyson M. Olander, the Hasty Quilter, is showing two series that focus on the patterns and cycles found in nature, and has agreed to be my guinea pig on this experience.

Alyson in front of her wall at Artomatic 2009

What inspires you to create?
Just about everything provides me with the inspiration to create. Whether I actually do it is another question. I am most inspired by patterns, repeating lines, concentric circles, angles and corners. It is amazing to me that spirals are naturally occurring phenomena. Color gradients tickle my fancy. Close-up or macro photos jump out at me. I like to imagine the air floating around us as quilting lines.

In her Full Moon series, Alyson researches the cultural associations with each lunation cycle, meditates on how the ancient meanings of those moons fit into her life, and finally translates the images and symbols she see in the meditation into a compelling quilt. In Wind Moon (right), thread and beads recall the strong spring breezes of March and the havoc they create on the impermanent, delicate cherry blossoms.

Wind Moon by Alyson Olander

What is the relationship of your artwork to your spirituality?
Each piece is a meditation; a journey; a lesson. My spiritual nature is based around learning and changing and accepting. When I need to learn something internal, or I need to get something out, the best way for me to do it is creatively. Some lessons are easier to learn, some paths are harder to follow. This is a metaphor for my art. Some days it works, other days it doesn’t. When it doesn’t work, maybe it’s because I’m not ready for that lesson. Then I put it away for another time. I can always tell when I try to force the lesson, to me the quilt is never the best it could have been. Translating my spiritual experiences into my creativity is a new concept for me. Although my art has been spiritual since I discovered my artistic voice, I don’t think I ever really put two and two together until recently. My full moon series is an attempt to understand how spirituality and creativity correlate.

In her larger Water and Stones, concentric circles ripple outward from each stone and overlap each other creating intricate patterns and multiple focal points — really, I just love looking at these pieces and getting lost in them.

 

 

To my eye, your pieces tend more to the abstract, to the underlying patterns found in nature. Are you always looking at the world around you in this way?
I enjoy a good landscape as much as the next person and regularly photograph them, with the intention of translating them to fabric. But when I get right down to it, I’d rather concentrate on the blade of grass. I’m attracted to texture, and texture is hard to express when the mountain is miles away. I like to think that if you “zoomed out” of one of my abstract quilts you would discover that it was actually the scale of a fish or the petal of a flower, like one of those games where you only get part of the picture and you have to figure out what it is. If nothing else, the larger, literal view inspires me to look closer & find the abstract.
 

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You can find Alyson’s work on the 4th floor at Artomatic through July 5. You can also find her at http://www.hastyquilter.net/ and her Etsy shop http://wonderlandquilts.etsy.com/.

Vision of Bastet

May 27th, 2009

Shrine to BastetBack in February, I attended a ritual for Bast led by Michael Smith of the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel at the Sacred Space Conference.  During that ritual, I had flashes of images surrounding the large statue of Bast on the main altar.

After the invocation to Bast, a hazy cloud of blue-violet surrounded the statue and an “after-image” of a lionness head flashed just above and to the side of the statue.

My story is that I don’t regularly see such things so clearly and physically.  I wanted to capture this vision in an art piece — only my first attempts at a digital collage didn’t work very well.  So, I broke out the canvas, papers, and paints and had at it.

Once the collage was finished, I could tell the whole thing needed a richer setting.  I took vintage trim and painted it with a light coat of gold and sculpted two abstract scarabs for the upper corners.  Yet it was still not finished.  I went up to my studio and started digging around, when these two peacock feathers caught my eye. Now, I don’t think there is any correspondence between Bast and the peacock, but the colors complimented each other nicely.

As I walked down the stairs, the bouncing feathers caught my Hermes‘ attention. I couldn’t get him to leave them alone for 2 seconds.  Of course! Wouldn’t Bast want something that alluring and fun in her shrine, too?  I trimmed the stems and added some gold beads. Voila!  It was complete.

Now, I am hopeful that someone who loves cats or Bast loves this shrine enough to buy it for their home or temple. *hint, hint*  The Shrine for Bastet will be showing at Artomatic until July 5, 2009.

Sprinkling Magick Around Artomatic

May 27th, 2009

Artomatic 10th Anniversary Half-Banner

I am showing at Artomatic again this year. I’ve been running around like a crazy woman trying to get the final touches on my artwork and get them all ready to hang on a wall. 

I am showing at again this year. I’ve been running around like a crazy woman trying to get the final touches on my artwork and get them all ready to hang on a wall. again this year. I’ve been running around like a crazy woman trying to get the final touches on my artwork and get them all ready to hang on a wall. I am showing at again this year. I’ve been running around like a crazy woman trying to get the final touches on my artwork and get them all ready to hang on a wall. WHAT: Artomatic, an arts extravaganza featuring hundreds of local artists — visual artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, and many more. Nine floors of creativity!

WHEN: May 29 to July 5. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 5 p.m. – 10 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays, 12 noon – 1 a.m.; Sundays, 12 noon – 10 p.m.; closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

WHERE: 55 M St, SE (at Half Street) in D.C.’s Capitol Riverfront neighborhood. Right above the Navy Yard Metro ballpark exit (green line), a block from Nationals Stadium.

I am showing more of my shrines and boxes this year, including two new pieces made for this show: Shrine for Bastet and Shrine for Oggun.

Angela's Installation

I am also showing next to two other amazing magickal artists, Eric Eldritch and Alyson M. Olander. I’ve worked with Eldritch on several community initiatives over the years, and Alyson and I are good friends through our mutual love of crafting (in its “myriad” forms). Eldritch has done a series of reflections on the Green Man, mostly paper mache wall sculptures — none of which I have seen in real life, just blurry photos from his mobile phone.  Alyson is a quilter and has two amazing series inspired by patterns and cycles in nature. 

I would post pictures of their walls, but every photo I have is BLURRY.  Opening night is this Friday, so I’ll get some good shots then.

Meet the Artist Night is Saturday, June 13, 7:00pm to 10:00pm or so.  All three of us will be there to meet, greet, and talk about our artwork.  We’d love to see you there!

Rudraksha and Cowrie Necklace and Earrings

March 27th, 2009

Necklace and earrings.

Cowrie shell pendant

Journey to the Source

March 27th, 2009

Last weekend, seven women from Becoming traveled five hours to the source of the Potomac for our annual retreat and spring blessing rite.  This was the first time we had only women attend.  While I love our men, it was fun to have a weekend of sisterhood and CRAFTS!  Yes, we are all crafty women and there was knitting, beading, embroidery, henna, and glitter tattoos!  And food? Did I mention that Becoming has the most awesome cooks?  Homemade butter, veggie stone soup, beef roast, pancakes from scratch, oatmeal cookies, and more.  Yikes! 

I don’t have any photos from the cabin…yet. I took a bunch of someone else’s camera.  But here are a few from the source at the Fairfax Stone in West Virginia.

Ketzirah @ the Source Miniature Landscape Nicole @ the Source Miniature Landscape Barbara @ the Source Miniature Landscape  The Source Spring of the Potomac Miniature Landscape 

1) Ketzirah wandering the meadow, 2) Moss! 3) ChaCha on the stone above the source spring, 4) Miniature landscape, 5) Barbara relaxing with a tree friend, 6) Miniature landscape, 7) The source spring (kind of dry this year), 8) There’s some water!

And of course, every ritual needs a little “Joy and Pain, Sunshine and Rain!” Unfortunately those were the only lyrics we knew, but we danced and sang for all we were worth.

 

1) Getting our groove on, 2) Christina on the mountain top meadow (photos taken by Christina)

Out of the seven of us, four of us are on Twitter.  Because of this trip, we converted one other to the cult of Twitter, and I am no longer allowed to twitter on long car rides as I tend to start chains of ridiculous lies (like “I got into a bar fight and now need bail” which I twittered, but didn’t really happen).

The weekend ended with a group herbal steam bath at Atasia Spa in Berkeley Springs.  One of our sisters doesn’t like enclosed spaces, so we began quietly singing and chanting to bring the energy up. About 15 minutes into it, we must have started singing a little more loudly, as we were asked to stop — by someone banging on the door to our steam closet.  Ah well! Another spring righteously celebrated!

Chango!

March 20th, 2009
Shrine for Chango
I am not a child of Chango, Yoruban orisha of thunder, but I have to admit a certain attraction to his virility and pure masculinity–and the drumming, let’s not forget the drumming (links to a real audio file).  So, I jumped at the opportunity to create a shrine as a commission for one of his children.
Usually I create my shrines from used wooden cigar boxes, but luckily I read that Chango despises cigars before starting.  Research, it does an artist good.  I had some old office in-boxes laying around, so I used that for the container.  Add a digitally modified image, rooster feathers, beads and vintage buttons, and a sigil/symbol for Chango (that frankly came to me in a vision and is not traditional).
Anyway, I am pretty happy with it.  I hope that Chango is.

Jumping into social networking

March 12th, 2009

Just an update to let you know of other ways you can get your Angela/Nine Ravens Studio fix…

I am on Facebook at Nine Ravens Studio. I will be posting pictures, links, and event updates.  You can also chat with other folks who like my work.

And if you’d like to follow me on Twitter, my username is @nineravens.  There I “tweet” about my art and writing process, and sometimes just life in general.

 

Upcoming Events with Nine Ravens Studio

March 4th, 2009

I just added a page announcing my upcoming classes, rituals, spiritual art sessions, and exhibitions.  I am very excited about how this year is turning out.  I hope that you will join me for some of these events.

Happy Buddha and Strength

February 13th, 2009

I finished two new, but very different, pieces last night.

 Happy Buddha Mala

The first is a Happy Buddha mala, or set of prayer beads, which I am selling over at Nine Ravens Studio.  I really loved putting this together — the happy buddha bead is filled with the potential of joy — a combination of reverence and mirth as they would say in some traditions.  Right now, he is hanging out on my creative artist manifestation altar, along with a thank-you letter from Stepping Stones Nigeria for the fundraising campaign we did last year.

 

I ventured into the world of physical collage with this piece for the auction at the Red Dragon Feast this year.  I had worked on the image of Issac Hayes for a commission, but the client didn’t like it.  So, I repurposed the image as part of this collage.  I had fun getting my hands dirty with paint and matte gel, but it was a bit nerve-wracking to know that each step was essentially not un-doable — unlike PhotoShop where you can control-z your way back to the step before you messed up.  I didn’t think it was coming together until the very last steps last night.  I am pleased with the results (or else you wouldn’t be seeing it here). 

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