Category: Stone
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The Mummified Stone Heart
The central focus is a very special stone heart found on the Pacific coast at the equator. It has an uncommon green color. a heart with many scars. Once it was split, but love was able to hold it together and unify what had been separated.
Sorrow leaves wounds; joy brings peace.
This heart has found its peace.
Its wounds have healed.
The purpose of life was fulfilled; the eternal cycle of birth to life and death to a new life.
This heart has been embalmed; first if has been cleaned from all perishables.
The nucleus remained, one with the nature.
For women all over the world and over all times it might be a symbol for love;
isn’t the woman love’s keeper?
Love is immortal.
Faith and hope in the victory of love might be the symbol of humankind in the next millennium.
NOTE: This embalmed heart has been wrapped with golden ribbons, placed on a plate of slate from the Andes, and bedded in a stone sarcophagus. The feather of a white swan symbolizes the purity of the heart. As grave goods, there are two sealed papyrus rolls perpetuating the heart’s qualities. This project contains symbols from four different continents (America, Asia, Europe, Africa).
Women’s History/Prehistory
Black Box- Hidden Wisdom, what we know and have forgotten
Black Stone- For the Great Black Magma Mother
Opening Book- History of Women’s Mysteries, linked one to another, through our Blood, through Time.
Images are not designed to explain, but to expand awareness.
Woman in Bloom
Tajima Box Project. An artist and an extraordinary woman collaborate to create a box.
Deanna Oppenheimer, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF RETAIL BANKING, BARCLAYS BANK
Wife
Mother
Mentor
Water-skier
Senior Appointed Chief Operating Officer Barclays Bank, United Kingdom
Chair of the Board of Trustees, University of Puget Sound
“Of all my accomplishments, what I am most proud of is my children, that they are growing up to be fine individuals.”
Outside the Box
To know who I am is the quest.
To learn lessons is the school of life
To see emotion as the road least traveled.
To find the path past mind is the road to the soul.
To see life as a continuously unfolding process
To live life to the fullest is to live in the present.
To open to humaness is to see life’s treasures
To live in the present is going outside of the box.
From: If Life is a Game, these are the Rules
The Rules for Being Human
Dr. Chérie Carter-Scott
Reverberation: Yuri Kochiyama
Tajima Box Project. An artist and an extraordinary woman collaborate to create a box.
Yuri Kochiyama, LEGENDARY CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST; CLOSE FRIEND AND ASSOCIATE OF MALCOM X and June Sekiguchi, ARTIST.
I want to represent the effect pivotal events had on Yuri Kochiyama and how her life and work had a ripple effect in turn. Something breaks the surface of awareness and affects a resounding change. The box is the foundation supporting barbed wire which acts not only as the internal framework of concentric ripples reverberating beyond the source, but references important aspects of Yuri’s life: internment and political prisoners.
The box holds a gathering of pebbles that signify the catalyst of change. The ripples are inscribed with quotes, influences, and documentation of her life. I’ve chosen to use text heavily in this piece because the written word has held a place of importance in Yuri’s connection to the world. Light and shadow reflect the intangible far reaching affect she has had.
The Rat in the Hat, a Porcupine in a Tie, the Nude, and a Pierced Ear
Bearing One Another’s Burdens
As I contemplated my involvement in this project I was immediately drawn to the reverent simplicity of the tiny redwood box. As I held the box and pondered its humble strength and quiet stability I was instantly reminded of the strength, perseverance and poise-under-pressure that often signifies women in general. This strength of endurance caused me to then think of the many burdens we all carry around with us, and how much lighter the burden can be when we know someone is helping to carry the load. The Bible reminds us to share in each other’s trials. By helping to bear the load brought on by death, illness, heartbreak, loneliness or other oppressions, we offer comfort and hope.
In creating this visual testimony I attached the lid to the box and produced a stable and strong vessel. The vessel houses the strength, perseverance and love that together can lift, carry and support the great weight of the burden that is placed upon it. The burden, a complex aggregate rock, is both rugged and smooth in its makeup. Beneath the rock is a cushion, a sheet of gold, intended to soften the burden. The rock is bound to the box with a tightly wrapped and intertwined cord. The cord is the weakest element. It can be cut, and at any time the burden can be lifted. The cord reminds us of our obligation.
It is my intent that this box stand as a reminder to all of us to humbly bear one another’s burdens, to encourage and strengthen one another, to love, honor and pray for one another. By helping to bear the burdens, we find joy in knowing that we have contributed to the needs of others. By bearing one another’s burdens there are blessings to be found in the midst of tribulation; there are victories to be found in hidden places.
Beyond the Box
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There is a longish black stone in the small box.
The Private Cosmic Library
The “Private-Cosmic Library” probes three possibilities for encoding conscious and public databases along a time axis.
The disk is made of painted cast aluminum, actualizing modern types of codes, encoding information on computerized disks, accumulating familiar signs from the language of electronics within and metaphysical signs in personal-code rhythm language.
The libraries appearing in the brown photographs characterize hundreds of years of book printing, a whole web of cultures and memories open to intimate browsing and learning from generation to generation. The “Private-Cosmic Library” is expressed by the simple fact that these are photographs of the libraries in my home with a portrait assimilated therein and many books in the field of art and metaphysics.
The sculpture-object itself opens as a book closet and alternatively, appears to be a small shrine by virtue of the crystal pyramid and three quartz columns.
In mineral terminology, these types of crystals are used for energy acceleration. According to mythology in the culture of pre-historic Atlantis, all information encoding was carried out energetically upon crystals. In light of the reawakening of the effectiveness of natural crystals, advanced technological achievements are brought closer to the furthest past.
In the cloak of time, past, present and future take place upon a circular axis, and the internal memory is the collective memory. With the hope that despite the physical miniature dimension of the work, the work will expand itself towards the open space.
Zen Box
Caja Llena de Pajaros
Changing Woman
Mother
Hearth
Diverse meanings are attached to the shape of a box. This particular box represents the amalgam of two ideas. The first is the idea that all our judgments and ill-imagined, preconceived notions might go up in flames so that we might remember to view each other with fresh, clear perspective.
The other idea is that each of us would throw our boxes of hope and treasure onto the pyre for warmth of body and food on a cold night. This flame of necessity, real for some, but taken for granted by others, might illumine a way of looking at life – that we might value the bare essentials of life more than we do – and care for those who don’t have them.
The green flame represents the possibility for growth and a new way of life that would rise from the kindling of excess with unsurpassed brilliance.
Emergence
Granfaloon of 3
I adored my maternal grandmother and gave my daughter her name. Isabella. One day when my daughter was a tiny girl, she said to me, out of the blue, “Remember when I was the big lady and you were the little girl? Wasn’t that fun?” It was fun.
Out of the Darkness
Out of the darkness, the void, the night, we are reaching for truth, for life, the light.
Kamen/Stone
I want to send you a small part of my country
Bosnia & Herzegovina.
This is a gift from me to You.
Stone Upon Stone
“Stone upon stone is our house on top of the hill White in sunlit dawn and in the moonlight green And betwixt one night and another, We know nothing but waiting.”
– From July in the City, a collection of poems by Palestinian artist, novelist and poet, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, 1959
In these devastating times of deliberate, pitiless destruction of homes, history and peoples, I defiantly built an edifice of stone to celebrate the future. It is a shrine, a shelter, an obelisk for all those people and countries whose future has been brutally marred and who are denied the chance of generating personal and collective memories. For, as every stone touches another stone, so does memory–it is created by an ageless, unbreakable bond between the past, present and the future.The stones used are ancient Byzantine mosaic cubes collected from near an archeological site in Palestine. The mortar to fix the cubes together is an old Palestinian building recipe.