Yet Open Studio 2024 will show works

that explore reality through Marking into the Paradigm.

Is it true that we are in our bodies, while the rest of everything else is out there? At least that is our perception! Our reality based on the distinction of subject and object has so much to do with the distinctions that separate. We have found at Studio Anavami that visual arts is a way to shift perceptions of what we call reality, even when we are deeply ensconced. We can conceptually know wholeness but experiencing it takes practice—an art-practice. And we have found that the more we embody our work, rather than coming from the head, oddly enough the less the division of outside and inside.

There is a Japanese concept of notan, that looks at the picture plane not as an object with a background of negative space but rather as the two inform each other. That is the object requires a ground. To say it in another way the object and subject influence each other. Quantum science would agree. The two together are a whole. They define and complement each other. By chopping things up we separate ourselves which eventually gives us polarities like climate crisis. How hard is it to focus on wholeness? It takes a shift in consciousness which can be assisted by participating in the visual arts.

I have found that certain materials and processes lend themselves to changing how we think. It is not automatic, it takes awareness. What results in the work also takes a certain kind of looking. You are invited to come by the studio the first and third week in October to witness the process and see the work. This radical shift in the context of the process has continually proven to be innovative in terms of engagement, content of images, and use of materials. I use various marking vocabularies on thin papers: transfers, monoprints, rubbings, and invisible and soft marks applied with cold wax and oil paint.

More Information About Open Studios Art Tour Here

Episodes in the podcast are short and follow ideas of the curriculum for Marking into the Paradigm

Next September this context will be central to a retreat to San Miguel de Allende. See below.

Saturdays 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. this month.

$250 includes four times, all materials.

Large format acrylic mixed media painting

Are you interested in discovering the difference between doing and being through painting? –shifting from perceptions of a reality where you have little control as a perceived center of the world, while at the same time seriously separate from much of life? This large bold painting project can introduce you to an identity of partnership, creativity and even kinship that has the potential to expand your identity and reality.

Come to Anavami Studio on the Westside off Swift St. to join a large format acrylic painting project. There will be little technical instruction, but unique approaches with various materials designed to develop trust in your own process. There will be no critiques, as shared personal reflections pushing edges of consensus reality are more interesting and impactful to other painters. Experiments like this in the past three years have proven empowering for participants, inspiring confidence, and creativity not only in the visual arts but cooking, other daily activities, intimate relationships like child rearing, partnerships and business negotiations resulting in new visions of creativity and self-identity.

We will paint on 3’ X 5’ industrial paper with acrylic paint and various materials and implements. Drop-in is $65, four sessions will be $250 a month. Call Majio with any questions at 831 420-1349

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One of the twenty marking approaches introduced the first week in each set widens the bandwidth of possibilities outside regular thinking, perceiving, and doing. The process cultivates innovative thinking through the development of new awareness. We will begin the first week of each month by making vocabulary to be used in paintings.

Here are some of the approaches we will explore to shift relationships to habitual reality:

Monoprints on tissue paper to be used for layering images with paintings. We will create various printing masks made from shadow projection and other ways making stamps and stencils to incorporate into painting.

Invisible marks are made by changing paper surface or with clear modeling paste to create marks and texture that are not clearly visible until the paint touches the surface. Because there is little conscious control a spontaneity and authenticity develop in the process, opening unconsidered nuances.

Collected rubbings from textured surfaces combined in the painting process has proved to add subtle fields of emotion like adding a new musical instrument to a band.

Asemic Writing or writing without semantic meaning is a hybrid art form that fuses text and image into a unity opening arbitrary subjective interpretations. Marking is a language exchange with the world in subtle and dramatic forms. To turn everyday writing communication into visual rhythm and pattern either as collage or directly on the substrate offers an evocative element to painting.

Daily creative practices help us consider a relationship to the world of belonging rather than anthropocentric separation.

An Invitation to Join Marking into Being Circle at Anavami Center
Openings beginning in Fall 2024
No art training or experience required
curiosity and a sense of discovery is imperative

Tuesdays or Wednesdays 11-2 pm PT (additional times available) $240 per month in studio or via Zoom
This includes weekly emails with resources for reflection & private circle portal for posts and comments.

Visual arts-practice is a powerful way to acknowledge and change beliefs. Our current paradigm is creating a fear consciousness. How we perceive informs how we live and interact within the world. Creating an art-practice in marking can break that cycle expanding perspectives and providing an opportunity for nurturing individual discernment, personal growth and self-expression.

This experimental group transforms through painting and printing by developing skills in somatic imagination and the allowance for re-identification of artist as collaborator with the world. An adventure of delight and confusion underscored by embracing not knowing builds trust in our own navigating system, releasing us from the fear.

More information:

YouTube Video Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eILycVMHSgE

Spotify  Podcast:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/45hsFg3FjiJPOCY598MjFK

 If interested text Majio: 831 420-1349

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It will be a seven-day stay in an artist’s studio with a small group for a marking workshop.

La Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel is an emblem of the town with two neo-Gothic façade towers that can be seen from most parts of town.

Last time we were there on a fiesta day, 15-foot-high figures danced in the plaza. It is a magical place with a large international artist community.

The flight is usually around $500, and we will take care of our daily food and trip to the hot springs.

Let me know if you prefer certain dates as we are still in the planning mode.

We will fly into León and drive to San Miguel. The trip is around $1500 which includes lodging, two fantastic restaurants, pyramid ruins of Cañada de la Virgen an archeological site, visits to local craftsman—an instrument maker and paper mâché artist— airport transportation & workshop, and materials with Majio.

Our itinerary guide is Migdaliha

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Call or text Majio with questions: (831) 420-1349