"As if in a dream…seaside contemplations"
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If you're in Houston this week and next, or plan to be, I invite you to see my scroll wall hanging “As if in a dream…seaside contemplations" and other beautiful images at the Peter T. Brown Gallery. The exhibition comes down March 13. If you haven't had a chance and have been intending to go - enjoy now! The gallery is open until 8:00 PM tonight, other hours below. Original post of July 2014 follows with more description and information about this and other "Inner Path of Photography" inspirations. * * * * *
I'm pleased to share with you my latest scroll wall hanging, "As if in a dream…seaside contemplations" in the inaugural exhibition
"Over
Time: Photography from the Advanced Photography Workshop"
Peter T. Brown Gallery, Houston, Texas.
I'm enjoying integrating my love of meditation, Japanese sensibilities, and beauty of the sea in my current work, and am happy to share this special hanging with
you. * * * * * "As if in a dream...seaside contemplations" is my contemporary
interpretation of the art and intention of traditional scroll wall hangings created by Japanese Zen monks. In Zenga (Zen art) the scrolls come from an act of meditation. The monk/artist immerses himself in the essence of Spirit, then expresses it visually, to share and inspire a similar experience in the viewer. Hangings such as these are placed in a contemplative space in the home, to remind and reconnect the viewer to the ever-present inner bliss and beautiful outer manifestations of God. * * * * * I believe deeply that we all deserve to be connected to our joy...whether we call it God, inner peace, or Spirit.
Life challenges us, and we forget about this beautiful essence within. My work, in the spirit of Zenga, is to bring that spiritual experience to people, and to feel it myself as I create my photographic images and the forms they take.
I invite you to the experience of meeting your soul through photography. (Click photos for enlarged detail, information)
Come see the scroll at the gallery to
absorb the textures and subtle colors that cannot be captured by a photograph.
The scroll: I chose three images from my contemplative series, "Sea Dreams," printed them on archival velvet-style paper, and designed a hand-stitched silk Jacquard scroll wall hanging to complement their peaceful presence. While the front of the scroll highlights the images, the back also radiates it own beauty with hand-stitching, a subtle golden Japanese leaf print on
green silk, and a small signed contemplative seaside image gracing the top. * * * * *
The Peter T. Brown Gallery, located in the Anderson-Clarke Center at Rice University, is open Monday - Friday, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Thursdays
until 8:00 PM. Enter Entrance #8, at University Boulevard and Stockton Drive. The Anderson-Clarke Center will be on your left. There is free 15-minute parking behind the building. More about the Peter T. Brown Gallery & the Glasscock School of Continuing Education, Rice University * * * * * News:
Last month I was in Houston, Texas, celebrating the showing of my Japanese scroll
hanging in a new gallery at Rice University, enjoying the hot weather, and reconnecting with my sources of inspiration: close friends, new artist friends, the Asia Society of Houston, Menil Collection, Houston Zen Center, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston…and of course my favorite places for food and wine (you'll have to contact me personally for those references :)
While there I
also met with transformational counseling clients, teen photography explorers, and those who are enjoying the unfolding of their photography and soul connection through the Inner Path Photography "Personal Odssey - Intensive Sessions."
How is
your summer going? Play, play, play!
And also…
* Give yourself an excuse to play:
Live/Learn:
Feel/Reflect: * * * * * I provide transformational experiences for those who desire to joyfully live and create their inner
truth in the outer world.
Through photography, contemplative practices, and inner path coaching, I partner with you to feel,
express, and live your unique experience of the Sacred.
Enjoy your photography…improve your images...claim your life.
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Heidi Straube, M.Ed, LPC - Inner Path Photography
"Honoring Inner. Creating Outer."Photographer, Transformational Counselor, Mystic/Muse
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"We yearn for the taste of the sacred...
and through our cameras discover it, the world, and ourselves." |
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