Green is also generally associated with the heart chakra-- which explains my choice of bowls for my almost-loved pasta letters.
Another gem relating the heart is rose quartz.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Jade
Apparently, jade (the precious stone) is associated with the heart chakra. So, to remind my alphabet soup friends that I love them all the time, I attached jade stones to the bottoms of the bowls that the pasta is in.
Green is also generally associated with the heart chakra-- which explains my choice of bowls for my almost-loved pasta letters.
Another gem relating the heart is rose quartz.
Green is also generally associated with the heart chakra-- which explains my choice of bowls for my almost-loved pasta letters.
Another gem relating the heart is rose quartz.
Writing Love Letters
I decided that it would be nice for the pasta to have some company while I went home when the gallery closed, so I left it notes over the last couple days. The letters were composed to the individual components of the alphabet pasta. Here is an example of what was written, followed (of course) by a couple pictures.
Dear and Darling Y's,
I adore you. You are graceful and beautiful and I think the world of you. I want you to know that I appreciate not only your being here with me but also all it took for you to get here. This may seem out of the blue, since I had previously discarded you, but I assure you it comes with a most sincere heart. Thank you so very much! I love you!
Love,
dina
Dear and Darling Y's,
I adore you. You are graceful and beautiful and I think the world of you. I want you to know that I appreciate not only your being here with me but also all it took for you to get here. This may seem out of the blue, since I had previously discarded you, but I assure you it comes with a most sincere heart. Thank you so very much! I love you!
Love,
dina
Wednesday
picking up the pasta
serenading my love into pasta
preparing for corpse pose with pasta on chest
thumbs in all three bowls meditation
making friends over pasta
hugging pasta with a friend
hugging pasta
passing a bowl of pasta to a friend
love through forehead osmosis
Tuesday (part 2)
loving pasta with Katie Parker and Guy Michael Davis
meditating with ryan
corpse pose meditation (see previous post)
thumbs in pasta meditation
writing love letters to the unloved letters
walking in circles with incense
child's pose meditation with bowl under chest
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Tuesday (part 1)
Suggestion for Love Meditation:
Lay down in corpse pose (on your back, legs outstretched, arms out to the sides with palms facing up).
Close your eyes. Look inwards. Imagine that the feeling of love is a little energetic ball floating somewhere in your body. Locate exactly where this feeling is bouncing.
Imagine your hands catching and cupping this ball of feeling gently as you would hold a firefly in the summer. Feel it bouncing around in your hands, warming the points at which it touches upon your skin.
Then imagine the ball becomes a balloon, not yet filled with air. With each inhale, see the balloon grow and press outwards towards your limbs. Feel it extend into your arms and legs. Feel it as it swells against the inside of your skin-- all the way to the tips of your fingers, the crown of your head, and the edges of your toes. Hold it there, filling and warming your body.
When you are ready, with an inhale, allow the balloon of love to extend past your skin, creating an aura around your body.
Congratulations, you are now brimming with love!
Lay down in corpse pose (on your back, legs outstretched, arms out to the sides with palms facing up).
Close your eyes. Look inwards. Imagine that the feeling of love is a little energetic ball floating somewhere in your body. Locate exactly where this feeling is bouncing.
Imagine your hands catching and cupping this ball of feeling gently as you would hold a firefly in the summer. Feel it bouncing around in your hands, warming the points at which it touches upon your skin.
Then imagine the ball becomes a balloon, not yet filled with air. With each inhale, see the balloon grow and press outwards towards your limbs. Feel it extend into your arms and legs. Feel it as it swells against the inside of your skin-- all the way to the tips of your fingers, the crown of your head, and the edges of your toes. Hold it there, filling and warming your body.
When you are ready, with an inhale, allow the balloon of love to extend past your skin, creating an aura around your body.
Congratulations, you are now brimming with love!
Monday, April 27, 2009
Monday, The Set-Up
Ryan Jewell serenades his love into the UnLoved Soup
Little jars for individual love
Big jars for more intensive meditations
Friday, April 24, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The Invitation
LOVE SOUP
Be part of an exciting experimental art piece!
The Bigger Picture:
For about a year, I have been separating boxes of alphabet soup into two piles. One is a pile of L’s, O’s, V’s and E’s; the other pile is “leftovers.” I intend to feed the LOVE soup to my close friends on a one on one basis, by their invitations, in their kitchens. The rest of the letters have posed a problem for quite some time—I do not want to feed loveless soup to anyone, friend or stranger. Finally, a solution presented itself: group meditation. There have been numerous studies on how group meditation has altered the state of physical things. An example of this is an experiment done in the late seventies in Washington DC, where a large number of participants were said to lower crime in the city by merely meditating on it together. (http://www.istpp.org/crime_prevention/)
The Invitation:
I would like to invite you to help me meditate the love back into the loveless soup. I will lead mediation sessions from Monday, April 27th through Thursday, April 30th, 10AM to 5PM at the Reed Gallery. You can drop by for your lunch break or stay for the whole day. You can participate, make suggestions, or just watch the process. The culmination will be the cooking and eating of the soup, which will take place in the gallery during the opening reception for the show on April 30th, in the evening.
The Place:
The Reed Gallery is located in the DAAP Building on the University of Cincinnati campus. Here are more detailed directions: http://www.daap.uc.edu/gallery/reed
Please email me if you have any questions.
Hope to see you there!
Dina Sherman
www.theimagallery.com
Be part of an exciting experimental art piece!
The Bigger Picture:
For about a year, I have been separating boxes of alphabet soup into two piles. One is a pile of L’s, O’s, V’s and E’s; the other pile is “leftovers.” I intend to feed the LOVE soup to my close friends on a one on one basis, by their invitations, in their kitchens. The rest of the letters have posed a problem for quite some time—I do not want to feed loveless soup to anyone, friend or stranger. Finally, a solution presented itself: group meditation. There have been numerous studies on how group meditation has altered the state of physical things. An example of this is an experiment done in the late seventies in Washington DC, where a large number of participants were said to lower crime in the city by merely meditating on it together. (http://www.istpp.org/crime_prevention/)
The Invitation:
I would like to invite you to help me meditate the love back into the loveless soup. I will lead mediation sessions from Monday, April 27th through Thursday, April 30th, 10AM to 5PM at the Reed Gallery. You can drop by for your lunch break or stay for the whole day. You can participate, make suggestions, or just watch the process. The culmination will be the cooking and eating of the soup, which will take place in the gallery during the opening reception for the show on April 30th, in the evening.
The Place:
The Reed Gallery is located in the DAAP Building on the University of Cincinnati campus. Here are more detailed directions: http://www.daap.uc.edu/gallery/reed
Please email me if you have any questions.
Hope to see you there!
Dina Sherman
www.theimagallery.com
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