“NEST: FORYOUTRUTHISMYWING” Catherine L. Johnson 2010 + “NEST: FORYOUMYGIFTISNOTHIDING” Catherine L. Johnson 2010 + 16 JANUARY 2016- CLOSING DATE: ” HUMANLY POSSIBLE: THE EMPATHY EXHIBITION” @INSTINCT Art Gallery + OVER THE RAINBOW

NEST: FORYOUTRUTHISMYWING                                           Catherine L. Johnson 2010

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NEST: FORYOUMYGIFTISNOTHIDING                                 Catherine L. Johnson  2010

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 My art is a dynamic experience

– a dance heralding all the senses.

My art needs an actual encounter to disclose/reveal its mystery, dance and whisper.

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The NEST pieces are a confluence of multiple levels

– echoing image/metaphor/lullaby/hymn of life.

The background color has the luminosity of the ethereal dawn.

The text reflects child speak,

a loss of language skills of a adult whose internal world is alive

and/or

a refugee/immigrant learning English

– all trying to communicate/connect to another.

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EMPATHY.

I SEE YOU.

DO YOU SEE ME?

 

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Over The Rainbow

DEDICATED TO MY MOTHER.

15 JANUARY 1997 WAS THE LAST DAY OF HER LIFE.

SHE LOVED  THE SONG “OVER THE RAINBOW”.

Joey Alexander (Solo In-Studio Performance)

From the NEST/HEART of a twelve year old boy

 

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REVIEW:

“The path to empathy”

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“Let’s sing a song of hope, understanding, acceptance.
Let’s welcome strangers, cherish the Earth, listen to others.
Let’s be thoughtful, generous, kind.
Let us protect each other, care for each other, love each other.
Let us be…”

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Written by Mary Abbe, Minneapolis Star Tribune’s esteemed art critic

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Published: New Year’s Day 2016

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2016/01/02/review-humanly-possible-the-empathy-exhibition-instinct-art-gallery-the-path-to-empathy-by-mpls-star-tribune-art-critic-mary-abbe-published-new-year-s-day-2016/

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FYI: THE LAST WEEK

HUMANLY POSSIBLE: THE EMPATHY EXHIBITION

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INSTINCT ART GALLERY

21 NOVEMBER 2015 – SA /16 JANUARY 2016

Tuesdays- Saturdays: 12 Noon – 5 pm

 DUE TO DEMAND, INSTINCT WILL OFFER IN THE LAST WEEK:

 WED NIGHT/13 JAN (5-8 PM) – CALL FOR PRIVATE VIEWING

John Schuerman, Director/Curator

612-240-2317

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940 NICOLLET MALL, MINNEAPOLIS

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GOLDENeST/gOLD NEST/NESTINg GOLD

Symbolic Meaning BIRDS NEST 

“communication and a wish to fly freely”

Symbolic Meaning

GOLD

The element gold was sometimes represented by the symbol for the sun.

For the alchemist, gold symbolized physical, mental, and spiritual perfection.

* Gold a transitional metal.

As a transitional metal, gold is symbolic of flexibility on our spiritual path while life experience galvanizes our faith. One of the more valued elements, gold represents perfection in all matter and on any level.  It also symbolizes the quest to perfect, illuminate and refine one’s self. Gold is resistant to heat and acid, thus, gold is a symbol of immutability, eternity and perfection. The infamous legend of alchemists turning common metals into gold is actually a parable for the human quest to change base vulgarities like greed, hate and selfishness into qualities like love, virtue and compassion through the process of self-purification.  * Ergo, gold is symbolic of this transition of the soul.  This gives gold such attributes as:

Vitality

Life

Health

Radiance

Wisdom

Clarity

Unification

Virtue

Light

Symbolic Meaning

EGG

  In the beginning there was no earth or sky

but only the dense darkness of space.

Darkness was everywhere and yet it seemed alive,

for out of it came sound, darkest sound.

 All cultures have woven their legends of the mystery of creation.

Perhaps one of the most powerful symbols of this mystery is the egg.

    To ancients in all lands, the egg was the symbol of generation and immortality.

In Scandinavia and Russia clay eggs

were put in tombs to ensure life after death.

A similar idea was signified in ancient Egypt

by the winged egg floating above the mummy,

carrying the soul to another birth.

The Chinese believed that the first archetypal man

sprang from an egg dropped by Tien, a great bird.

 The alchemists spoke of the philosophical egg

which combined all the elements of life,

the container of thought and matter.

The Greeks thought of the egg as the seven-fold vault of space,

a symbol originally compounded in the dual septenary planes of

the Cosmic Egg of Hindu tradition.

    Reverence for the egg is evoked by its form as well as by its mystery.

Its elliptical form describes the movement of

heavenly bodies and of the earth itself.

It describes the sphere of light that surrounds all living things.

It is in the oviform that the potency of spirit in matter manifests.

The Katakopanisad teaches that in

the Spiritual Egg, Purusha or Divine Spirit

 stands before primordial matter and

from their union springs

the great

Soul of the World.

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