NV AWE GATHERINGS AT THE LILLEY photos taken by Kaitlin Young.

 Kaitlin Young (electrikkdigital.com) captured our last gathering at the Lilley Museum. Take a look.

Jill Ashenbach collaborating with Jutta Gietl.

Our RTIA Dolan Family having a LOT of fun!

High Desert

 

We were born and raised in northern Nevada and have a strong connection to this place as home. Although generations apart, we grew up in Nevada’s high desert elevations. This place is ingrained in us. It’s easy to imagine that our tough-girl attitudes about working hard and being resilient have been passed down to both of us through the generations of our families that came before us, enduring to make Nevada their home.

We first met and developed a connection over ten years ago at the University of Nevada, Reno, in the sculpture studio. Though we have stayed in touch over the years, we hadn’t collaborated until now. The resulting piece emerged from a mutual appreciation for each other’s visual sensibilities and resonates with our shared origins.

Without a doubt, the high desert has influenced our reductive visual aesthetic, our deliberate use of color, our attraction to raw natural materials, and our fascination with found things that possess history. There is a certain poetics to all of it. Blanketing bare surfaces with felt, sewing the sky to the land, and casting rugged thistle into delicate porcelain are all gestures full of meaning.

Kara Savant and Tamara Scronce

July 18

 

NV AWE: Love by Carol Neel and Penny Pemberton

 “We have experienced Awe as an overwhelming feeling of profound amazement and wonder which  resulted in a deep spiritual reverence and appreciation. 

We have been deeply touched by Awe in the presence of nature, listening to music, spiritual contemplation , moments of  deep understanding and learning, exploring the mysteries & intricacies of the human body and the universe.  

The most cherished Awe experience that we have is the everlasting deep love that we have shared for 39 years.  

Penny and Carol “

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

Aristotle

July is Artown in Reno

 

Fluffy Love!

 

July 15 Cardiac Awe by Carol Neel and Penny Pemberton

 

July 14

 

July 13 documentation

 

Chickadee Ridge by Penny Pemberton

 Inspired by an art journalling day on July 7, 2012

Chickadee ridge, Mount Rose, with Carol Neel, Penny Pemberton & Candace Garlock. Feeding the Chickadees &  sketching.

“I hear you call

Your call comes to me

From a distant tree

Chickadee dee dee

I love the birds I hear & see

But my favorite is the Chickadee.”

Tich Nhat Hanh, Grand Shambala 

“When we see that the Earth is not just the environment, that the Earth is in us, at that moment you can have real communion with the Earth.  The Earth is a living, sentient being.  The Earth gave birth to us, and the Earth will receive us again.  Nothing is lost.  Nothing is born.  Nothing dies.  We don’t need to wait until after our body has disintegrated to go back to Mother Earth.  We are going back to Mother Earth at every moment.  The Earth is a Bodhisattva, a great and compassionate being.  A Bodhisattva is a being who has awakening, understanding and love .  A Bodhisattva doesn’t have to be human being. Touching the earth, you touch the nature of no birth and no death.”

We were touched by a Bodhisattva, a Chickadee.

“ I heard her song, and I replied

‘Will you come to me?’

She heard my song, and came to see

‘Who is calling me?’

Gently she perched on my hand,

 & accepted my sunflower seed.

Unafraid, nonjudgmental & free.

Today I was touched by a Bodhisattva,

A Chickadee”. 

Penny Pemberton

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