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| The Morrigan prepares for Battle! |
Found these great old photos of myself invoking Fire at the Gallery I had in Berkeley, California. Being a double Leo, I've always had a thing for fire. And a lot of great photos of other people. What a great group of people I knew there.....thanks to all for the memories! They say "if you build it they will come" and it was so very true - create the space for magic to happen, and it will. Make the Circle sacred, and all the more so. ***
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| Evelie Posche |
Flynt Garner
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| The God and the Goddess for Beltane |
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| The famous Snake Dance |
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| Arjuna Blessing the Space with Tuva singing |
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| Serene Zloof dancing with Kali and with Fire |
Blessing of the Priestesses
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| Ann Waters as Sophia holding the Mirror of Self |
***I've often thought of opening a gallery again, here in Tucson,
especially since Tucson's "art district" is diminishing to just about
nothing, along with most American cities, thanks to gentrification,
"real estate" investment, and a relatively hostile society that tends to
think of the arts as unimportant, if not suspect, and if they should be
around at all they should color coordinate with the sofa, or sound good
on a Hallmark card. Alas, I can't afford to do it any longer.
I
have many times ranted about the importance of low rent districts, and
cultural creatives. There would not have been Modernism and
Post-Modernism if there hadn't been cheap warehouse in Soho. There
would not have been the Visionary Arts Movement, the Summer of Love, and
the Beat Poets movement if there hadn't been cheap rent in Haight
Ashbury. There would not have been a genre of poetry, art, and music
that has profoundly impacted American culture if there hadn't been
cheap rent and coffee houses in the Village. There probably would not
have been Impressionism if their hadn't been The Left Banke. These were
places where creative people could come, create and share ideas, show
their work, perform, speak, and they could still eat. Without cheap
rent...........would there have been a Rothko, or a Seurat, or Bob
Dylan, or Alan Ginsburg, or Pete Seeger, or..................?
The
fact is, all of this is changing in our urban centers. The arts are
being de-centralized, and even more trivialized (I like to call it
"Cultural Soul Loss").............because there are so few spaces where
people can live, work, or show. It's no secret that innovative arts
(innovators in general) usually don't "sell". And most non-commercial
galleries generally don't make money................well, I see I'm
ranting again. I wrote an article about this when the Muse Community
Arts Center (
Requiem for the Muse) was destroyed 10 years ago, to become condos.
