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Transformational Painting Circles
Transformational Painting, Art-Practice of Being
Introduction Meetings Friday or Saturday throughout March & April
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.
It will be offered in two different sections, three-hour session four times a month. In March there will be introduction sessions $60 each. We will paint on 3’ X 5’ industrial paper with acrylic paint and various materials and implements. The proposed time is Friday or Saturday 11-2, but other times can be considered. The first set of four begins in May. The introductory painting sessions, throughout March and April is $60 each including all materials and will give you a sense of the project. The fee for four sessions, will be $250 a month. Call to register for introductions sessions or drop in $65 a session: Majio 831 420-2349
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.
Tours and Retreats
2024: San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and Ojo Caliente, New Mexico USA
Contact Majio if you are interested in either of these retreats.
Email: anavami@cruzio.com
Phone: (831) 420 – 1349
Special Offerings
Special Offerings are a group of small mixed media paintings mostly on wood from the last few years woven through the greater themes. They reflect investigation into Argentine street tango, paper dolls and petroglyphs, Jungian constructs and others.