To all who are Near, it would give us Great Pleasure to Greet you at our Opening Reception

To all Near and Dear who cannot attend,

We hope you will take in the Show during its Time at the Kootenay Gallery

To all Dear ones who are Far, we know your Hearts are with us

Someday, perhaps, we shall bring it closer to You!

Gallery Hours:

Tuesday – Saturday 10-5pm

Sunday 12-4pm.

http://www.kootenaygallery.com/next.html

Morning Light at Studio2

A favourite time of day at Studio2 was first thing in the morning when the sunlight was drenching the east-facing row of windows and offering up shadow-play and glow-effects on whatever elements of Cosmic House we had left the night before when hunger or weariness or yoga class had forced us to leave the process for another day

Here is a brief photo-essay of Morning Light at Studio2

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ReVisiting the Building of Cosmic House

Archive Photos of the Process I - Applying the Sculptural Elements to the Portal Opening This continues what felt like an entire month working on hands and knees. 'Molding' the felts into the archway of the portal. A very satisfying process. Above: Left portal begins Left: An eye peers mysteriously from piles of wool Morning Illumination: the early morning sun shines through the Green Man in-process. He greets us each morning when we enter the studio; glowing like an otherworldly diety; meeting us with his wise gaze.

WE BEGIN TO SEE THINGS IN DIFFERENT WAYS

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.

Second, it is violently opposed.

Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Over the past number of years and especially since May when we began the manifesting of COSMIC HOUSE, we have been reading many books, viewing videos and listening to radio programs and pod broadcasts and discussing ideas on everything to do with global warming, energy systems, waste and recyling, water wars, community gardens and growing our own food, the value of material things, sustanibility, spiritual and planetary renewal and lots of other big ideas! Cosmic House has spawned these discussions with troubling as well as exciting ideas. It has been wonderful to work together and to fuel our directions in the physical creation of our little-BIG house, COSMIC HOUSE.

We would like to pass on some suggested books etc for your bedside pile.... and if yours is anything like ours....it is a towering pile, a vertical library of great porportion!

Just a few to begin with: PLEASE ADD MORE TO OUR LIST!

It would be great to hear from you and to add your suggestions to the pile!

Omnivore's Dilemna - Micheal Pollen - in fact any book of Michael Pollen.

Abundance and Depletion - Life on the New Home Front - Sharon Astyk

Trash -

Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard

Smelling Land: The Hydrogen Defense Against Climate Catastophe - David Sanborn Scott (CBC pod cast from Ideas as well)

David writes in his Preface to the book,

"Smelling Land also touches on the energy systems of life and of Earth. It's intended for poets historians, legistlators and industrailists every bit as m uch as for engineers and physicists. "

COSMIC HOUSE is about thresholds, doorways, portals, - points in time and space where we currently find ourselves and looking beyond the now into what may be in the future. As we build our house, it speaks to us about transformation and renewal and the hope and hard work which lies ahead.

Please add to our list of books and ideas as these thought manifestations in the end, will aid all of us in beginning to turn the tide on the continued old industrial way of thinking and doing... ...we are as much responsible for all of this as are our neighbours, so let intention and action be our guide in making the best choices for the future.

Now enough of words and back to our sewing and felting needles!

MONKEYING AROUND!

The sinister tool mistress, Miss Kate! She says to herself..."hmmmm my next experiment will be to....." Having a break the day Robin brings her hand-molded monkey masks to the studio!

Ahhh those felting needles!

COSMIC HOUSE OPENS ITS DOORS TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY

COSMIC HOUSE OPEN STUDIO On August 15 we served tea and cookies and a peek at work-in-progress for COSMIC HOUSE. Exhausted after a full day of talking and explaining our process, we lie down on our printing and ironing table covered with our 9 soft and luxurious felted cloths and promptly fall asleep!

The Green Man Returns

The archetype of the Green Man returns as the portal/doorwary to our Cosmic House.

'He is the threshold of the imagination between the worlds of our outer natures and our deepest selves.' " Our remote ancestors said to their mother earth - 'We are yours'. Modern humanity has said to Nature - 'You are mine'. The Green Man has returned as the living face of the whole earth so that through his mouth we may say to the universe - 'We are one'.

William Anderson Green Man