Collage and photo Eron Boyd

Building a show;-  ideas born in another time and place enter into the now.

The space of the gallery has its own nature and proportions and ideas must reshape to accommodate factual reality. This is not a concession but an opportunity for something unexpected to be revealed. We created a form to support an idea and that form took up occupation in the space in a way that could not have been imagined before. If we become rigidly tied to our ideas we can not recognize these gifts and will miss the possibility to grow creatively.

After all is not creativity the ability to continually improvise with our surroundings and circumstances?

This show is a collaboration between the works of  Gustavo Jabbaz and Joachim Oepkes photographers, Lysias Harris builder designer, Manny Parmar print installer, Sae Kimura mixed media artist and assistant to every possible task invented by deborah harris, her impulsive and erratic cohort and curator.   

That was the old message.

Now we have our faces back.

May the sun smile upon you

as you also smile upon others.

Collages in Collage Gallery by deborah harris

Painting by Luke Gilliam

                                            The spring rays of sunshine through the library windows

Ariel

deborah

Collages by deborah harris

Paul Gauguin

Collage by deborah harris                             Collage by Sae Kimura

Yesterday Sae and I (deborah) took on the challenge to interpret the Gauguin painting in collage. We sat at the same table but did not see each others work til we were finished.

Surprisingly each of us had focused on

opposite aspects of the painting, background and foreground.  We were curious to see how they merged.  The results are shared here.

we demand so much from our bodies in all that we do

expecting they will follow our command

but sometimes they rebel and declare themselves wounded

we are surprised to find ourselves embraced by limitation

and the need to obey.

Arrives Sunday 1:28pm

Dry Ingredients;

2 cups almond flour

1 tsp baking soda

3 tblsp buckwheat flour

Wet Ingredients

1/2 cup olive oil

2 bananas

2 eggs

Consider: To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on; to observe and examine; to regard with pity or sympathy; to have regard or respect for; to think seriously, maturely, or carefully; to reflect upon

Ninety-nine sitting birds on a wire,

ninety-nine birds on a wire.

If one of those birds should happen to fly...

Ninety-eight sitting birds on a wire.

Change happens one bird at a time.

the first day of winter and the shortest day of the year