http://mandygreer.org/the-universe-2011 daily 0.75 2015-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438807507838-963LRL8NJ1H3Z6EAA6TI/total_Group_2jpg.jpg "The Universe", 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438807507838-963LRL8NJ1H3Z6EAA6TI/total_Group_2jpg.jpg "The Universe", 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438807480814-HFRAMANIJHP08ZVP2QX0/Summer_1.JPG "The Universe", 2011 - The Universe Awakens to the Child Permanent Public installation Commissioned by The Washington State Arts Commission for Bow Lake Elementary, Seatac, Wa. 2011 State Art Collection WSAC2010.003.00A-D This suite of four chandeliers, created for the children of Bow Lake Elementary represents the bounty, diversity and wonder of the natural world that has inspired human cultures around the world and throughout time. Using the motif of the classical four elements paired up with their respective four seasons, each chandelier portrays birds, trees and plants that have been selected from mythologies and folk tales from around the world. For millennia, human beings have marveled at the wonder of birds and their ability to visit both the earth and the sky, resulting in a wealth of bird lore in nearly every recorded mythology. For each season, I have selected birds to create that are considered protectors of children, patrons of children and represent ideas that are important to them – play, autonomy and the quest for knowledge. World mythology is full of comforters, guardians and associates of children who care for them along their journey through childhood. This collection of hand-stitched flora and fauna bloom at the threshold of the school, where children both enter into a nurturing world of learning and exit into the larger world to make their own way. The four chandeliers of varying height of 13-18 feet high, cascade down from the upper balcony in a gentle curve. The abundance of nature, and the mixture and collection of animals, plant and tree species from around the world, is meant to have a Wunderkammer feel (a Renaissance ‘wonder room’), a jewel-box of beautiful examples of the earth’s richness and diversity. The chandeliers are made from steel armatures that are then sculpted over with paper mache until they are solid. The fabrics are hand-stitched wools and polyesters, and leathers for the birds, sewn around these forms. The leaves and feathers are all uniquely drawn, individually cut out and machine embroidered. There is hand-done beadwork throughout the installation. 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438807493788-RY5UUU1ULOWX03L18LY3/Summer_2.JPG "The Universe", 2011 http://mandygreer.org/the-exstatic-moment daily 0.75 2015-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438209393318-NU73ZUR1A2UHM27IFNTO/hrm_pic.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 - The Ecstatic Moment “Mandy Greer: The Ecstatic Moment” at The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers , NY, June 7-Sept. 14, 2014 A multi-part immersive installation of fiber-based sculpture and costumes, photography, film and performance blended with the museum's collection of Victoriana, encompasses the entire bottom floor of the museum. It meanders through six different realms of colored walls and wallpaper, as well as sweeping up into the 24-foot high atrium. Along with work I’ve made from 2009-2014 – including elements specifically for The Hudson River Museum installation – I was given access to attic and basement storerooms full of personal objects and collections from Hudson River Valley inhabitants from the past. As someone who finds inspiration from dusty ruins and hidden secrets in fairy tales, this was like getting to briefly walk onto the set of Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête, and take what I wanted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438209393318-NU73ZUR1A2UHM27IFNTO/hrm_pic.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 - The Ecstatic Moment “Mandy Greer: The Ecstatic Moment” at The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers , NY, June 7-Sept. 14, 2014 A multi-part immersive installation of fiber-based sculpture and costumes, photography, film and performance blended with the museum's collection of Victoriana, encompasses the entire bottom floor of the museum. It meanders through six different realms of colored walls and wallpaper, as well as sweeping up into the 24-foot high atrium. Along with work I’ve made from 2009-2014 – including elements specifically for The Hudson River Museum installation – I was given access to attic and basement storerooms full of personal objects and collections from Hudson River Valley inhabitants from the past. As someone who finds inspiration from dusty ruins and hidden secrets in fairy tales, this was like getting to briefly walk onto the set of Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête, and take what I wanted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438209465766-8TYGNGVYII9JW3EMW5WH/MMMM_waterfall.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 Beginning with my on-going community-based project Mater Matrix Mother and Medium — begun in 2009 — surrounding the two-story staircase, installed for the Hudson River Museum as a huge weighty Waterfall that you walk through and behind to enter the world below, referencing the massive sweeping beauty of the Hudson River just outside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438209511142-FJ13NQTDQC7IQPXW588D/MMMM_Goddess_costume.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438209608782-MSH0BYMUBXR0WG6CVL1G/Green%3Abrown_entrance.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 Once you descend, you are confronted with your own image in a majestic floor-to-ceiling Eastlake Style mirror, engulfed by rough and beaded crocheted fiber tendrils of brown branching arms from my Root Room installation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438209563101-WIRJ1HENH1TH2Z06FX67/EM_entrance.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 Next, an intricate Victorian ebonized case, filled with minerals I selected from the museum’s oddities when it used to be a natural history museum, along with stones I collected in Iceland and my travels across the country. Surrounding this are pieces from my Zuster, Sweoster Systir photography series, a headdress made from yarn spun from my hair and my son’s , and a glittery beaded emerald chandelier from my work “Dare alla Luce”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438210490177-M5WCUI8PEW9EH0CAP53Y/ebonized+case.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438209959431-MUE3TNT2TMWG7Z66W1W3/ebonized_stone_detail.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438210569167-KEJE0GZH021QPY03F1WN/5MB_dark+ferns_hair.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438210758848-8DCERW3KV2XJMVDFKZP9/Green_brown+section.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438210811977-6SRDR403MCO58EJFK0PK/Systir+Headress_MMMMquilt.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438210713267-V9QJLU0GIT6TS01MS41S/orange+fungus+grasp.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438210854293-DHCI2KD7FZDCIJBQJHJH/greenbrown+bird+dome.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438216204081-BPVV1BPB8EDMNOAT7QK6/5MB_double+green+man.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438212530911-FIO9DR23AZNIB6L7QVP0/Gold+section.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 After this verdant realm comes The Golden Sphere, a small window into dark shadows and of a glittering gold netherworld. Illuminated by the intricately beaded ‘Honey Moon’, photographs of my husband as earthen man, pulling gold from the dirt, rich photographs on cotton rag hang suspended in 19th century gilt frames separated from their original paintings. Here too is a repeated theme of selecting mirrors from the HRM collection, this one a mahogany stared inlaid Moroccan style, creating infinite view points into hidden realms, as it reflects back layers of Victorian bird and wax flowers under glass among my own paper flowers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438212545443-J273Q466VO34E7ZOGR7X/gold+bird_frame.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438212697401-KNQYFEYDJXVAA70QWGCY/gold_section_mirror.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438212604390-P4XIMC69IJWSE6OVG6SW/Gold_dome+detail.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438216292142-1N9QM4ZKDRLBXY3QCX2X/5MB_golden+temple.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438212627860-0UKDC5X1NMEDEXWC1RL3/Gold_Dome_Temple+photo.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438212725483-DLBO177D8S0XX3K03BBP/main+gallery_smoke_gold.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438210859062-COC5XJWCDXSKMX51IVRB/emlat-hrm.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 The center piece of the atrium gallery is my installation “Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever”, a towering confection that portrays a lacy inverted volcano in peach-flesh tones, a ring of leather carrion birds spewing an ash made up of collections of silvery grey crocheted ribbons, silver-leafed bones, stone and shells among other things. Influence by my time spent working in the volcanic landscape if Iceland, but also layered with other ideas of nature, destruction and regeneration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438216376126-57RJSGTHU58YFVTP47CW/5MB_glacial-windwitch-portal.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438212802773-6HRKIHMR87GMZ19MFT7Z/Krono_costume_cabinet.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 Notions of Travel moves through the next several realms, my own and the Victorian sense of exploration and the Cabinet of Curiosities of that time. The Flesh/Lava realm, Ice/Water realm and Vermillion Room all contain work I’ve made inspired by residencies in Iceland, France and Italy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438212796799-GG6DPAV1258ABOT68CJV/detail_dove_dome.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 My strategy for working these vintage collections into the installation was mostly intuitive, looking for things that I simply desired, as any obsessive collector might. It often led me to pieces that were damaged or odd in their beauty. Pieces that might draw out connections and memories in my work, always remembering that these were artifacts that decorated and defined space in intimate personal lives now gone. My work too is laced with my own life and experiences, my old clothes, my hair, my husband’s, my son’s; old baby clothes shredded and dyed, trinkets and baubles from my grandmother, mixed with junk drawer keys and stones and seashells from travels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438212890356-QEFWFXZ5XOAT865AZLE4/Dark+Rm_pelican.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 Then to the farthest realm in the galleries is the Celestial Realm, with charcoal walls and dramatic lighting on the glittering stars of the Seven Sisters from Dare alla Luce, reflected in another immense Eastlake-style mirror inlaid with mahogany and ebony. The center of this realm is filled with a massive intricate black Pelican Goddess enmeshed in 16 feet of black beaded crocheted tangles and paper chrysanthemums ,with yards of white beaded ‘milk’ flowing onto a 12 foot spiral referencing both an over-sized braided rag rug and a galaxy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438299553932-ZEB22MZIISB3JEJQGIXO/5MB_mustard+potion.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438213082816-H0M3D1WGLD34G7AA6F3X/darkroom_wide.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438212871269-CZ0UMYX78NXY8VC1X2Q8/Dark+rm_euridice.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 For The Hudson River Museum installation, the tail of the Pelican engulfs a white marble sculpture of a woman, Euridice from 1870, breasts bared, twisting in a spiral with her hand pulled towards the pelican with black satin ribbons. This is my favorite pairing of my work with a HRM collection piece, the interrelated qualities of material, mythology and imagery with works around the room is electric. Around her are other marble columns from the collection covered in carved flowers and holding my collection of lava stones from Iceland, sewn fabric lilies, silver leafed bones. The emotive quality of the statue is intense longing or mourning, I imagine an intensity pulled from the mythology of her story of separation from Orpheus, connecting my work to the craft of another artist, Riccardo Grifoni’s interpretation of ancient stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438212943549-QS7V560EFZVGB8COEZXF/Dark+room_raven.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438216809172-FUPXGSLEDR1DQN7XKD5O/PAM_Snaefellsness_Glacier_Boy_2012+copy.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438212986025-TDUZF6BD4WPPQ0GGS6UH/Dark_glacier+detail_zoe_rock.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438299753856-CGCBDFLK1QTOLVE8TQ2Y/5MB_ember.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438213096963-XHFE6EV08HY19QR37N3V/vermillion_wide-shot.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 The final realm, The Vermillion Room is dominated by a slowly rotating forged ring of large turkey vultures, shredded wings spread over a mass of crocheted, beaded and blown glass ‘blood’, culminating in the strong geometry of a quilted compass rose spreading across the floor in 4 directions. This structure, dealing with time, direction, blood, destruction, regeneration continues my fascination with the carrion bird, this time a more naturalistic portrayal than the mythical carrion birds in “Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438300165094-NM79N2EXJY5H27OHOHZJ/5MB_poppy_sister.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438213156603-HRJ1J4HP3XKSQK5QM2OE/Orph_Lyre_PG.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438299633518-U1R3PE7DXS03IYALXI9X/5MB_furnace.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438213168600-YWFM9TDV25R7D47P305Y/Vermillion_behind+PG.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 I’ve encountered turkey vultures on several hikes in my home state of Washington, but none more dramatic than once on an elk carcass along the Naches River. Along with three vultures were two golden eagles and a number of large ravens and a few magpies. Having just lost a friend, I sat and watched the events across the river in solemn quite that slowly turned to appreciation at the work that the birds do in the cycle of life. Often harbingers of death in mythology, the birds actually do no harm, nor do they kill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438213249280-SFYDMQOD0OX1IJB6BQR0/Vermillion_blood_Orph_PG.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438213252473-UX2AN4TT0XVFN9OEO169/Vermillion_blood.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 They turn death into flight, a notion that filled me with relief and awe as this congress of huge birds flew in entwining circles in front of me, as the carcass was above me on a rock ledge. Further down the river, I collected the sun-stripped bones of a dog and a deer, which a few became a part of the silver expanse of the installation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438213344875-3N05QAGV9G2N6KTBIYBJ/Vermillion_compassrose.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438299833471-2W6Q7PO3H25MEXJWS5VM/5MB_conjuring.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 Surrounding the vulture compass rose are photographs and video created on my recent residency in Normandy, France, and depict a character I took on called “The Poppy Goddess.” Traveling with my family, the bucolic landscape all around me was in deep contrast to intensity of sadness I felt throughout my son’s studies of World War II. As a youngster, he became enamored with the machinery and the archetypal heroics of soldiers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438300003431-GPD6OUDQNC3NWIB5IZ3D/5MB_silk+columns.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438300084871-31CGIJM6LO8X365JYWFX/5MB_Northward.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 Wearing the intricate costume myself, it began to feel like a sort of armor, protecting or numbing myself to my ambivalence with my son’s attraction to the hero stories of war. Because of the multilayered mythology of the poppy flower – both of remembrance and the opium-induced forgetfulness of Demeter, I began to think of the Goddess as just one of an entire order of sisters, who assist (particularly mothers) with mourning the loss of children to war, who might lead one to a path of forgetting, and into dream as the only way to ease pain, and survive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438299920152-5ZWM867ACAP18XRSE6VF/5MB_vermillion+lyre.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438213348858-93U1V6ONEXYGZXFXDVPC/vermillion_Orpheus_Overall.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 A companion to my Poppy Goddess costume in the gallery stands a 1900 bronze of Orpheus from the museum’s collection, and traced back to the iconic ruins of Untermyer gardens in Yonkers. Both figures stand as if in conversation with a photograph echoing a lyre form, created from brambles, mistletoe and crocheting arranged on a Norman hedgerow ruin. Naked in opposition to the cloaked goddess, both figures carry their own mythology of traveling to the underworld, immeasurable loss and the desire to outwit death — again a thrilling pairing of my work with a turn of the century artwork, both exploring the recurring presence of mythos in the drama of our everyday life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438377896545-4L1PF39MP3MWMMNHXCD4/image-asset.jpeg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 - Hypnos 'Hypnos' single-channel video, features an exploration of the Poppy Goddess, shot in Normandy France and at Mont Saint-Michel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438213032827-A5P5AUHX9Y11FL696RJ4/MMMM_goddess.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 The ocean, the river, the stream, the glacier, the iceberg lace themselves through the entire experience of the overall installation. Actual rivers and shores populate my films that are in every realm, adding their ambient sounds like a circulatory system throughout the installation. The Ice/Water realm, flanked by MMMM Waterfall, shows images and costumes from a month-long January residency in Iceland, turning glacial ice into intricate patterns mixed with a woven and crocheted cape I made to wear and respond to the incredible Jökulsárlón iceberg lagoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438216456380-T0KX3C7EYD43B58RP5QL/5MB_Jetty_shame.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438216540689-5A0ZFN0WHCOCH5GURZD0/5MB_Kvera_Blue_Bird_2013.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438216718749-R7YMLFQD5E7LH0XTULUE/5MB_three_states_mirror.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438216607644-9SGDLJ09D4PHY68BY9WI/5MB-craterwoman.jpg "The Ecstatic Moment", 2014 Reviews for "Mandy Greer: The Ecstatic Moment" New York Times “Stitching Together Yarn, Memory and History” By SUSAN HODARA Westchester County paper “Enterprise News” by Jackie Lupo Hyperallergic! “A Crocheted Phantasmagoria on the Hudson” by Allison Meier Huffington Post Arts &Culture, “Artist Channels Ancient Myths, Fairy Tales…In Fantastical Crochet“ http://mandygreer.org/new-gallery-1 daily 0.75 2015-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438301039234-6US43VD15642IY3X4ZTO/greasey+profile.jpg "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438301039234-6US43VD15642IY3X4ZTO/greasey+profile.jpg "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438300777992-261ZQZJXTWWYPQOUR5HY/DSC02872.JPG "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 - Zuster Sweostor Systir Ohge Ltd. Gallery, Seattle, Feb. 2010 “Zuster Sweostor Systir”, a companion show to my project “Mater Matrix Mother and Medium”. The show features a film made in collaboration with Ian Lucero, created out of Zoe Scofield and Morgan Henderson’s performance from MMMM, performance artifacts, as well as photographs created in collaboration with Jennifer Zwick, performance photos by Juniper Shuey, as well as paper quilts and objects and photos created in collaboration with Paul Margolis that came out of my continued fascination with the fabricated woods we find around Seattle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438301079690-SIQGE8AV6QEYXKLVSK8P/yielding+and+forceful.jpg "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438300782568-8GPZHL351H6RM5P9OYWL/DSC02873.jpg "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 MMMM project involved me in highly collaborative relationships with several artists, the Seattle public and, in a very real sense, a small patch of urban forest. This sister show, coming a year after I began roving about hidden patches of forest all over Seattle, is a way to share these collaborations, these fertile offshoots that continued to instigate new work for me long after the very public part of MMMM was completed. During my six weeks of residency at Camp Long in Seattle, spending long hours crocheting a fabricated river into the trees, I spent a great deal of time in quiet, face pressed to bark, watching ants travel, ducks tend to ducklings and watching small changes take place every day in my pond. A giant Barred Owl watched me, and it all felt very viscerally wild. But in between the quiet was the blast of horns from ships, a low hum of cars on the interstate and the weekly visit of the grounds keep with a leaf blower. This forest, like most in Seattle -- save for a few trees in Seward Park, has nothing to do with the deep mystery of the forest that was once here. It is fabricated, tended, groomed, minded, the old pond filled with a hose when it gets too low. An early photograph in the lodge shows the landscape barren, stripped of its organic past. Zoe Scofield, on an early site visit, astutely observed how like a stage set it all was, and we intended to draw that out. The theatricality of the park is like that of a 18th century folly, a ruin, at once referencing a romantic vision of nature as well as the human longing to experience something more sublime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438300785366-F6IROXHIE9U2UWWLGQE8/DSC02880.jpg "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438301034187-W7UCW29V4WPF1RBQYF0R/gloom.jpg "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438301045996-NW9Q0U1SAVC8NT0NYUOO/nurse+log.jpg "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 I felt something of that sublime, following that great owl that watched me midday, I went off trail until I stood below it. And when its head glided around so that it could glare at me, warn me, I felt a jolt of instinct or electricity. In the fabricated, tiny forests we tend, there is still buried the pull the human animal has always felt, to go back. As the summer came to ending, and I cut down the river, folded it up, I came back to my site over and over again as the forest turned to fall. With my son, I sifted for skeletal leaves on my hands and knees, just as we had sifted through dead leaves at the bottom of the pond looking for salamander egg sacks, finding the perfect lacy forms like Scandinavian lace discarded after a flood. I wanted to sew the forest together into a blanket, organize it all, to prepare for the winter, the leaves the same color as my hair, everything going red to brown. We found nurse logs feeding Turkey Tail fungus like crocheted ruffles, and orange mushrooms under which we buried a mouse. On our hands and knees, it wasn’t urban recreation, but fairy tale. I collected my hair and Hazel’s hair, had it spun into yarn, and we each took on our roles in a landscape both out of our reach and right there with us, as organic as it is artificial.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438301020195-8AXDX5OTBWSE4305PH61/braids+1979.jpg "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438301019696-WZ186H6VE1DUP1X4T380/DSC_0270.JPG "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438301025073-GBELBYZUN4KE75UVAJJ8/ghoosebumps.jpg "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438301045362-RWXBLNVF2OSSHNK0QZJT/orange+fungus+grasp.jpg "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438301050950-S2V04S7ODGK1M25XW0G5/sitting+in+ferns.jpg "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438301056345-EX4SXAMBJFUPSX7FYI8Q/sun+rise.jpg "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438301060585-30N63GOJCG6UTJANHUFI/three+states.jpg "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438301074068-V0Q4G0H8HE32RC1R4X3D/waiting.jpg "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438301090410-KNHTG1CE96VMTT3IRUJG/Zoe+-+Cold+Mary.jpg "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438301063629-ARQK7MJ14FD7GJT7API8/tiny+pool.jpg "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438301096563-IMKS7I3ZHQYBQUHAP5W9/Zoe+buried+eyes+up.jpg "Zuster Sweostor Systir", 2010 http://mandygreer.org/new-gallery daily 0.75 2015-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438293182906-7I2K7VX2SNVR7PRA93J3/mud+god+golden+cage.jpg "Honey and Lightning", 2011 - Honey and Lightening Jan. 14 - Feb 5th, 2011 at Roq La Rue Gallery “Honey and Lightening” is a show of installation chambers, sculptures of talismanic birds and a series of staged photographs all revolving around examining the mercurial nature of human desire. The substances honey and lightening both have literary, mythical and archetypal references to the occurrence and evolution of desire and it’s fading. I see one as the slow ooze of pleasure and the other as the dangerous, uncontrollable and inexplicably instant occurrence of magnetism between two bodies. Two installation chambers create full body experiences of these ephemeral phenomena and crystallize them in tangible form as a way to signify the human longing for a perfect stasis of experience – which is impossible as emotion begins to degrade, evolve, fold in upon itself after the initial strike. The Honey Moon chamber is a 10 foot tall mirrored jewelry box spanning 12 feet, enclosing a giant engorged golden chandelier formation encrusted with tens of thousands of gold-colored trinkets – the cheapest of the trashiest materials but representing the purest element from the bowels of the earth that has induced lust to the point of violence since pre-history. This giant mass of gold, as well as the body of the viewer, is reflected infinitely in 35 mirrored panels that create a simultaneously claustrophobic and expansive encounter that memorializes a temporary event. The mythology of honey, a bodily fluid produced from flowers, has long been associated with the ooze of erotic perfection. An ambrosial month of drinking honey-wine has followed the wedding ceremony since the Pharaohs. But locked up in the folklore of this transitional period is that the delirium ends and the state of bliss is forever sought after.   The Cherry Tree Root chamber is, in a way, a reverence to my own experience with Colpo di fulmine — “love at first sight” in Italian, which literally translate to “lightning strike”, and a craving to re-experience a place and time that no longer exists. Recently digging a 16 foot deep foundation hole, my husband and I removed 72 tons of dirt from our property to build a studio, exposing deep and gnarled roots that seems like frozen solidified lightening, long forgotten, dug up by us to lay the foundation for the rooms we hope we’ll die in. The root chamber is like entering this underground world hidden from view of long- ago electric ephemeral desires that have now turned into strong and sturdy roots- not as flashy as lightening but quietly enduring and growing. The roots are battered beautiful twisting accumulations of crocheted scraps of fabric I’ve saved for years, old ropes and remnants of past installations, hand-spun hair, rabbit fur and old clothes, all coated in the dirt from below my family’s foundation.   Creating a chamber to recede into is an homage to Jeffry Michell’s 2001 installation “Hanabuki”, the site of our own lightening strike, a catalytic phenomenon that lasted a millisecond. Like life itself beginning with lightening striking the primordial soup, the mythology of celestial fire recognizes its ability to create fast irreversible transformation. Despite the impossibility of it, I made my chamber as a way to revisit and remember the secret place Jeffry made, the fur-lined hut that was a pleasure palace where I fell in love, presided over by little dancing gods spreading the joys of the pleasure in all bodies, a beginning of something that seemed temporary and ill-fated but really turned out to be deep-rooted like an ancient tree.   The installation also includes a gathering of talismanic birds made of leather and more than a thousand individually cut and sewn silk and satin feathers, representing my imminent needs but using imagery used by a variety of ancient peoples and cultures — a desire for protection, for a guide, and harbingers of happiness in the form of a raptors. In photographs, close friends and my husband play out roles that tie into the everyday events of their lives, but represented as re-interpreted gods and goddesses such as Hecate, Demeter and the Green Man. The photos speak to themes of cross-roads, the double pull of isolation vs. community, a power buried in the beginnings of motherhood and the visceral erotic pull of the earth, volatile but buried like a dormant volcano.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438293182906-7I2K7VX2SNVR7PRA93J3/mud+god+golden+cage.jpg "Honey and Lightning", 2011 - Honey and Lightening Jan. 14 - Feb 5th, 2011 at Roq La Rue Gallery “Honey and Lightening” is a show of installation chambers, sculptures of talismanic birds and a series of staged photographs all revolving around examining the mercurial nature of human desire. The substances honey and lightening both have literary, mythical and archetypal references to the occurrence and evolution of desire and it’s fading. I see one as the slow ooze of pleasure and the other as the dangerous, uncontrollable and inexplicably instant occurrence of magnetism between two bodies. Two installation chambers create full body experiences of these ephemeral phenomena and crystallize them in tangible form as a way to signify the human longing for a perfect stasis of experience – which is impossible as emotion begins to degrade, evolve, fold in upon itself after the initial strike. The Honey Moon chamber is a 10 foot tall mirrored jewelry box spanning 12 feet, enclosing a giant engorged golden chandelier formation encrusted with tens of thousands of gold-colored trinkets – the cheapest of the trashiest materials but representing the purest element from the bowels of the earth that has induced lust to the point of violence since pre-history. This giant mass of gold, as well as the body of the viewer, is reflected infinitely in 35 mirrored panels that create a simultaneously claustrophobic and expansive encounter that memorializes a temporary event. The mythology of honey, a bodily fluid produced from flowers, has long been associated with the ooze of erotic perfection. An ambrosial month of drinking honey-wine has followed the wedding ceremony since the Pharaohs. But locked up in the folklore of this transitional period is that the delirium ends and the state of bliss is forever sought after.   The Cherry Tree Root chamber is, in a way, a reverence to my own experience with Colpo di fulmine — “love at first sight” in Italian, which literally translate to “lightning strike”, and a craving to re-experience a place and time that no longer exists. Recently digging a 16 foot deep foundation hole, my husband and I removed 72 tons of dirt from our property to build a studio, exposing deep and gnarled roots that seems like frozen solidified lightening, long forgotten, dug up by us to lay the foundation for the rooms we hope we’ll die in. The root chamber is like entering this underground world hidden from view of long- ago electric ephemeral desires that have now turned into strong and sturdy roots- not as flashy as lightening but quietly enduring and growing. The roots are battered beautiful twisting accumulations of crocheted scraps of fabric I’ve saved for years, old ropes and remnants of past installations, hand-spun hair, rabbit fur and old clothes, all coated in the dirt from below my family’s foundation.   Creating a chamber to recede into is an homage to Jeffry Michell’s 2001 installation “Hanabuki”, the site of our own lightening strike, a catalytic phenomenon that lasted a millisecond. Like life itself beginning with lightening striking the primordial soup, the mythology of celestial fire recognizes its ability to create fast irreversible transformation. Despite the impossibility of it, I made my chamber as a way to revisit and remember the secret place Jeffry made, the fur-lined hut that was a pleasure palace where I fell in love, presided over by little dancing gods spreading the joys of the pleasure in all bodies, a beginning of something that seemed temporary and ill-fated but really turned out to be deep-rooted like an ancient tree.   The installation also includes a gathering of talismanic birds made of leather and more than a thousand individually cut and sewn silk and satin feathers, representing my imminent needs but using imagery used by a variety of ancient peoples and cultures — a desire for protection, for a guide, and harbingers of happiness in the form of a raptors. In photographs, close friends and my husband play out roles that tie into the everyday events of their lives, but represented as re-interpreted gods and goddesses such as Hecate, Demeter and the Green Man. The photos speak to themes of cross-roads, the double pull of isolation vs. community, a power buried in the beginnings of motherhood and the visceral erotic pull of the earth, volatile but buried like a dormant volcano.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438292605598-5JQL1X8KINH75E6YW3NO/6218X.jpg "Honey and Lightning", 2011 Sponsored in part by the City of Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs CityArtist Grant and 4Culture/King County Lodging Tax Revenue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438293125242-DAPRZZMVTX1UVRUGILSG/antaus+emerging+crop.jpg "Honey and Lightning", 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438293138587-BO5DO9G2VHU2NMDD6JSH/coral+cats+cradel.jpg "Honey and Lightning", 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438293146651-0DXSMYYPM0CPU1KENK8H/deep+fallen+heart.jpg "Honey and Lightning", 2011 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438808850900-KX3S92YK8X6P2ANSLH0S/Jude+and+Pig+TableFIXED.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 - Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time SOIL Gallery, Seattle 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438808850900-KX3S92YK8X6P2ANSLH0S/Jude+and+Pig+TableFIXED.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 - Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time SOIL Gallery, Seattle 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438808780929-7C21DLMJXOALUW367CHF/Pig+DetailFIXED.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438808800426-VT60XB98Z5RUX4FRXQJ4/Pig+Table+DetailFIXED.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438808809043-CHYMYIV57EWTI89KKAUR/Pig+Table+Top+Detail.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438808859818-COVO2E1ACSSAHU46HKOL/Jude+Collar+DetailFIXED.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438808884185-7568G10HOS3C56CKLQBM/Jude+Detail.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809191504-9MCOZM7QCTFVYD49OGPT/Green+Gathering+4.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 - Asunder Kirkland Arts Center, Wa. 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809218519-3MQ9W94L3UOSA64C5YOW/Green+Gathering+5.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438808994481-85K0CML7ZGYWZ2JYEW4F/Asunder+Two+Deer+2.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809071755-6UJ4SKBV53CY6SED81QE/Green+Gathering.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809181625-XDZWKZXMZ1NVVZEBD3P4/Green+Gathering+2.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809287714-UMINZ03JJ0QAYDRYDFIY/Petunia+.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809310954-0ZPCVSTLYGI7MTME8KNE/Petunia+antlers.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809347299-RQYI8MN6E28OZL95FLOB/Petunia+bottom.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809122507-AXV3P1FDMVG7S5GMVYUM/Black+Bird+MFA+FIXED.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 - MFA Exhibition: Possesion University of Washington Master of Fine Arts Exhibition Henry Art Gallery 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809151558-YJK6132ZGHP02G8O28X1/Branch+with+hanging+creatures+MFA+Fixed.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809042294-8I7UGH0TXNPBHLJQCEC6/Dangling+Creatures+MFA+CMA.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809408599-TYZ9YKQ8LR4IVG4OKPLB/Pink+Boobie+MFA+CMA.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809061985-B6J77IYKI9WA3N98SRYU/Furry+Grandma+Dress+ovoid+MFA+FIXED.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809279073-F0TKHGWZ6AH8HCIWSL3L/Leather+Balls+MFA+CMA.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809442229-OX9WLKORNL9235M3HPNP/Red+Deer+MFA+CMA.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809508060-SJFADSGQZ9ZGIN7VFP1P/White+Branch+and+Pokey+Black+Bear+MFA+FIXED.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809524490-2UVSBU2U7ENZFLFKTGOM/White+Headless+Bear+MFA+CMA.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809097102-HCH0KCS8Y3GC5QLFXH2B/Headless+White+Bear+Detail+MFA+CMA.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809473014-751579JK4WIN2ZWYUT0D/Skin+tight.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809454336-VHRDWU8SOAMJV0J1VPXG/skin+tight+detail%2C+2.JPG Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809461015-EZTC6YOFKLRJFFV7OAO5/skin+tight+detail.JPG Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809104754-NDRIVSORQDAFY93C0D2L/Black+Bird+.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809229779-99MSV6J5G1HFKPH095GH/IMG_1390.JPG Older Work, 1999-2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438809015838-RLU00DUBRXSAOV46GXDF/Beaded+White+doll.jpg Older Work, 1999-2000 http://mandygreer.org/tale-of-two-cities-2007 daily 0.75 2015-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438813288903-G5N7IQK9K87F23Z9BVP5/THREE+Furies.jpg "Tale of Two Cities", 2007 - “A Tale of Two Cities” Special costume design, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle 2007 When Director Jane Jones invited me to create work for Book It’s production of A Tale of Two Cities, I jumped at the opportunity to satisfy a curiosity I have long had – what would it be like to place my work in an actual theatrical setting.   In an exciting bit of synchronicity, A Tale of Two Cities touches on several themes and sensibilities I had explored in my most recent installation Small But Mighty Wandering Pearl (Oct. 2006, CoCA). In that installation, I created a life-sized eviscerated White Stag, with a few hundred feet of intricately crocheted, knitted and stitched organs and blood streaming out from his side, culminating in a fountain/chandelier of blood. My inspiration was two bloody events that had changed me irrevocably. Likewise, I wanted to create something that could speak to how, in all our lives, sometimes the greatest trauma can leave us raw but we emerge exquisite, new and more our true selves. In some way, I see a parallel of this idea in the French Revolution. Certainly the Terror of the Revolution cut a deep gouge through Western civilization in much the same way, and influenced every art form, civic and political mode of being. I felt challenged to create a visual metaphor that could touch on the paradox of the horrific events that arguably and ultimately made the world a better place. Dickens provided a most potent symbol with the knitting of Madame Defarge, a literal record of the ghastly reckoning to come, hidden in the domestic hand-work of a woman. She seemed to me an embodied member of the Three Fates, spinning, measuring and cutting our destiny. I seized on the idea that the revolution -and likewise the oppression that brought it about- shredded individual identities and bodies, ‘knitting’ them into a teeming yet homogenous mass of hysteria. I used piles and piles of torn-apart old clothes and shoes to create work that provides a mirrored image of the decadence of aristocratic oppression reflected in the decadence of blood spilt by the mob.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438813288903-G5N7IQK9K87F23Z9BVP5/THREE+Furies.jpg "Tale of Two Cities", 2007 - “A Tale of Two Cities” Special costume design, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle 2007 When Director Jane Jones invited me to create work for Book It’s production of A Tale of Two Cities, I jumped at the opportunity to satisfy a curiosity I have long had – what would it be like to place my work in an actual theatrical setting.   In an exciting bit of synchronicity, A Tale of Two Cities touches on several themes and sensibilities I had explored in my most recent installation Small But Mighty Wandering Pearl (Oct. 2006, CoCA). In that installation, I created a life-sized eviscerated White Stag, with a few hundred feet of intricately crocheted, knitted and stitched organs and blood streaming out from his side, culminating in a fountain/chandelier of blood. My inspiration was two bloody events that had changed me irrevocably. Likewise, I wanted to create something that could speak to how, in all our lives, sometimes the greatest trauma can leave us raw but we emerge exquisite, new and more our true selves. In some way, I see a parallel of this idea in the French Revolution. Certainly the Terror of the Revolution cut a deep gouge through Western civilization in much the same way, and influenced every art form, civic and political mode of being. I felt challenged to create a visual metaphor that could touch on the paradox of the horrific events that arguably and ultimately made the world a better place. Dickens provided a most potent symbol with the knitting of Madame Defarge, a literal record of the ghastly reckoning to come, hidden in the domestic hand-work of a woman. She seemed to me an embodied member of the Three Fates, spinning, measuring and cutting our destiny. I seized on the idea that the revolution -and likewise the oppression that brought it about- shredded individual identities and bodies, ‘knitting’ them into a teeming yet homogenous mass of hysteria. I used piles and piles of torn-apart old clothes and shoes to create work that provides a mirrored image of the decadence of aristocratic oppression reflected in the decadence of blood spilt by the mob.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438813268638-P77ZCBPXC66ASKEXBKOD/%283%29Guillotine+scene%2C+TOTC+good.jpg "Tale of Two Cities", 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438813327397-LPTOPO8X5O1KYWBX5RQF/Mm.+DeFarge%2CTOTC.jpg "Tale of Two Cities", 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438813268065-L8AITVO9TNIHP0B16J3F/Guatine+scene+TOTC.jpg "Tale of Two Cities", 2007 http://mandygreer.org/dare-alla-luce-bam-2008 daily 0.75 2015-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438385482874-OTGCASPKT5WPKM114T4P/%22+-+BAM%2C+Title+wall+entrance+.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438385482874-OTGCASPKT5WPKM114T4P/%22+-+BAM%2C+Title+wall+entrance+.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438385490268-8YDGUJHS6ROQYA2WYTQJ/%22+BAM%2C+2008-+entrance+.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 - "Dare alla Luce" Bellevue Arts Museum, May 6 - August 3, 2008 From curator Stefano Catalani: "Greer's exploration of the sensuality of life is reflected in the sensuousness of her medium. The materials mirror the body in its dual reality of emotional and corporal: soft vs. hard, vulnerable vs. strong, huge vs. delicate. Her formal realm is a soft one, made of crocheted and stitched fairy tales and archetypal myths, addressing the commonality of feeling and thinking of the human condition. Meaning is embodied in the narratives and yet embedded in the very material."   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438385866639-P4YB5ZAD3133IBZRV544/13.+Dare+alla+Luce%2C+2008++copy.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 Entering “Dare alla Luce”, the you pass through and under a forest canopy of earthly paradise of 8 green chandelier-like forms made up of a 1000+ yards of crocheted/beaded/braided/ stitched vines, branches and leaves. Through this lush ooze of greenery, dripping with overabundant beaded fruitings, the viewer enters the celestial realm, the night sky represented by a large black pelican, spread wings, perched above on a black glittering branch extending off the wall out of a grotto of obsidian. The gnarled bird wears an elaborate headdress and gown spreading behind her 15 feet; an accumulation of sewn feathers, dyed, twisted tendril masses of black shredded crocheted fabrics, yarns and beads. The end of the gown touching the ground is tattered, filthy but exposes glittering white fabric lilies. Flowing from the pouch of the pelican’s mouth, a galaxy of crocheted, beaded milk spills onto the floor. Mixed in with this white current are stars of silver glass, rhinestones, sequins, quartz, beads, that begin to rise off the floor, hoisted like little chandeliers. This night goddess looks across to a whitish moon orb emerging from the wall like a pregnant belly, covered in a skin of beaded craters of pearls, shells and white and grey beads. The seed of all this was my discovery of Jacopo Tintoretto’s painting The Origin of the Milky Way just as I began the ardent journey of nursing my own Herculean-sized infant. In the painting we see Jupiter holding his illegitimate child, the baby Hercules to the breast of sleeping Juno, his wife, so that the child may become immortal by drinking the goddess’s breast milk. Juno awakes, pushes away the child and her milk sprays across the sky to create the Milky Way. The legend continues that the milk that fell to earth became the whitened lily. Here was ancient mythology of the origin of celestial phenomena, but also described the truest intimate experience of my life. The drama of the gods became wrapped around the most haptic and experiential knowledge of my own body, a body awash in its own fleshly corporeal and visceral nature, under the influence of the same forces of nature that move the planets. In this work I want to explore this paradox of each life being inimitable yet we all in someway fit into an archetype, legend or mythology. Arguably every ancient culture has used the celestial dominion as text to record human concerns. The microcosm of the tiniest of private human experiences slides into the macrocosm of these largest of stories written across the sky by our ancestors. My title, Dare alla Luce, in Italian means ‘to give birth’, but literally translates “to give to the light”, as if each new life was a tiny star given to the heavens. I’m not so much interested in ruminating upon giving birth, but upon the experience we all share, of being born, of entering the Light and the flux of time and the stories we have told for all of human history This project isn’t so much about breast milk as it is about human experiences that perpetually reoccur, until they become mythos. Some events are fundamental to our condition, regardless of social or historical landscape…being born/loving/ hunger/drive/lust/transcendent ecstasy/dying. What I want to contribute to our communal dialogue is a view of our primary sameness, under it all we are all animals, baffled but seeking.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438385720957-R3FUMAA6VNR4G4M2EESW/14.++Installation+view+from+Pelican+mouth++copy.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386561865-46H0JFO0SUN16GCDTGPY/Pelican%2C+close+up%2C+2008+.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438385955617-5E9NULDFC60ORREE1MEL/16.++Moon%2C+rising%2C+2008+copy.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386107308-3GSREV618X7CUG887JYQ/17.++Moon%2C+micro-detail++copy.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386405786-TAAV3V96XS8L1MNWL30M/19.++Lime+chandelier%2C+2008+copy.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386691616-BVGDNXYGY5FMM86ZVLRI/20.++Lime+Chandelier%2C+hanging+lime+detail+copy.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386389782-7U64FBHM1SQ547CQ0VNM/18.++Evergreen+and+Olive+Chandliers%2C+2008++copy.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386416448-SLLNGTY5WOJ68TW44UV7/beaded+star+and+moon.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386439830-H59K82E9Y58MF0G9IEJ1/Chunky+dangles+%28RN%29.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386453958-OQZTAG88OSHB51RF4JMZ/Emerald+Chandelier%2C+2008.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386466164-1AA6YKD8UIBUZWWB6VUX/Emerald+Fruitings+.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386583353-P10RZ0IX9HUGQPFZ7OY5/Pelican%2C+from+the+lillies.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386501279-0VBASCCGSKWCAB0VCLEQ/Milky+Way%2C+detail%2C+2008+.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386479314-2V4AW7GU2KRL6DO1V42A/Lime+chandelier%2C+detail+hanging+pea%2C+2008.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386509542-1QCP3ZP04XS2ZLHFZOI1/Moon%2C+two+stars.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386607918-KK61HL9390ITSK90I9G4/Forest+chandelier+solo.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386599038-9KX4H81NGCABQMTK8DM0/Star%2C+beaded+detail%2C+2008+.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386525815-1K2L78FPDE2DGNAZ22NQ/Owl+midwife+and+megastar.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386518514-FEPD4S24WYHEVC1EKAP6/Owl+close-up+.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386623668-W8D3J9YVGURQFKE59NFD/leaf+bundle+-Olive+chandlier.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386644855-W63NLPAI23JDBOBX20C3/Nastrusium+leaf-Olive+Chandeleir.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386669600-PUC185HGM6ZCQ61ALN2S/Olive+Chandelier.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386546204-1KZV88LSQ71QOGG9F6O9/Pelican+tale+and+wings%28RN%29.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386425089-RNXHQLRYOU2SPP8VK0R2/Celadon+Chandelier%2C+beaded+fruiting%2C+2008+.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 Reviews for 'Dare alla Luce' Clemans, Gayle. “Two new installations push boundaries”, The Seattle Times (Washington), July 4th 2008. Graves, Jen. “Ooze, Pool, Spool: The Beaded Effluvia of Mandy Greer”, The Stranger (Washington), June 25, 2008. Kangas, Mattthew. “Review: Dare alla Luce at BAM”, Art. Ltd Magazine. (California), Sept/Oct. 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438386689043-6HAACTHLG2GFUC4JFP7O/weeping+bright+willow.jpg "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438749512254-WS450GY10ZSMK0I18HFV/DSC_0034.JPG "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 - "Dare alla Luce" January 22, 2009 – May 30, 2009 Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Or. Reviews: Skinner, Marjorie. “Mandy Greer and Darrel Morris”, The Portland Mercury (Oregon), Feb. 26, 2009 Zeisler, Andi. “The Universe , Two Ways”, Bitch Magazine (Oregon), May 20, 2009 Driscoll, Megan. “Art and Blogging”, Apophenia (Oregon), January 21, 2009 Pothast, Emily. “Signs of Life, Mandy Greer at MoCC”, Translinguistic Other (Washington), March 23, 2009 Radon, Lisa. “Mandy Greer’s Dare alla Luce”, Ultra (Oregon), March 22, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438749585459-4G35YOSIH3IXB3Q47D70/DSC_0053.JPG "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438749437993-PHD2VOG5WXF55Z0Q5EKA/DSC_0016.JPG "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438749430478-C7BCE4ZR5VMCQT83MSH2/15.++MCC+pelican+copy+1.JPG "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438749464083-W52LGGO4E5DQQD37WM5K/DSC_0018.JPG "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438749558268-2YXI7M9TNL127C649JAZ/DSC_0040.JPG "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438749460636-FFIQUROUUONBUNE7K0V8/DSC_0019.JPG "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438749537784-O1VCBNGQ24GX9XVR8YGF/DSC_0022.JPG "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438749483744-OZKZOWFB8YNTCOUCPSI7/DSC_0025.JPG "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438749548219-CZYELPRK0LD1A0ZCY7JM/DSC_0036.JPG "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438749568871-7NG4V16OJNZH376WFBN3/DSC_0050.JPG "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438749599649-3WY54RFCWQPPMBL4JOHT/DSC_0051.JPG "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438749605345-7L874K0BCXA7RUM9W4FM/DSC_0059.JPG "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438749618386-AEPE2H5KUC0U6UNQ7ITJ/DSC_0060.JPG "Dare alla Luce", 2008-2009 http://mandygreer.org/saltus-chori-aevum-2012 daily 0.75 2015-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289739527-XUTA737BAMUBP6UE3O4N/011.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 - “Saltus Chori Aevum” Seattle Center, 'Next 50', May 2012 “Mandy Greer’s ongoing Mater Matrix Mother and Medium project premiers a new multi-media performance entitled “Saltus Chori Aevum”, all words in Latin that mean “passage” but in very different forms, from the passage of time, to a passage in music, to a passage in the landscape. Led by the three female figures of the Moirai – the Spinner, the Allotter and the Unturnable – this experiential performance delves into how simultaneous and conflicting states of being function in collusion. Referencing the transformational ability of water to slip between three states, and the spectrum of impact water has on the human drama –from tranquility all the way to devastation– the performance will interweave rites of passage into an investigation of the sometimes-contradictory predicament of being both an individual and a member of a group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289739527-XUTA737BAMUBP6UE3O4N/011.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 - “Saltus Chori Aevum” Seattle Center, 'Next 50', May 2012 “Mandy Greer’s ongoing Mater Matrix Mother and Medium project premiers a new multi-media performance entitled “Saltus Chori Aevum”, all words in Latin that mean “passage” but in very different forms, from the passage of time, to a passage in music, to a passage in the landscape. Led by the three female figures of the Moirai – the Spinner, the Allotter and the Unturnable – this experiential performance delves into how simultaneous and conflicting states of being function in collusion. Referencing the transformational ability of water to slip between three states, and the spectrum of impact water has on the human drama –from tranquility all the way to devastation– the performance will interweave rites of passage into an investigation of the sometimes-contradictory predicament of being both an individual and a member of a group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289627533-UPOWDHIAHN2JUUTOFYTP/005.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289536102-RRTTT17DADA8ZAZKX9J3/001+2.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 Created in collaboration by Greer, choreographer/dancer Jessica Jobaris, performance artist/vocalist Saskia Delores, harpist/poet Monica Schley, dancer Andrea Ives and video artist Rodrigo Valenzuela. The performers, working together or apart, traverse the landscape, coaxing out the thin space between manual labor and contemplative practice. Small acts of menial work — washing, cleaning, caretaking, spinning, weaving — are revealed as thresholds to states of transformation, exploring the dual role of water in the mundane and the mystical. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289846467-P6E13JPE36VOF6GT1WN0/018.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289594972-A4OT5GIK7SUE7GH07TEI/005+2.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289557933-KQ0QRO0MYH6OJ3RUAKOE/004+2.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 Presented by The Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and Commissioned by Seattle Public Utilities 1% for Art. MMMM celebrates and interprets the splendor of Seattle’s urban watersheds and encourages stewardship, especially as it connects to SPU’s work. MMMM performance and installation is sponsored by the Seattle Center Foundation’s Next 50 Program, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Seattle Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289549409-6Q8RK62607M2KHECRRH3/002.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289585370-SGVUH0RLTQT0AN0EJTB8/004.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289641044-OJEYMGMITI2KUUWIGZ2A/006.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289653400-48VRTASYZX0A0YOUBBKF/007.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289719694-HJNZ88JLTHS362SIS3IO/009.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289875553-B2PD2B4O6C6O4FTCRYB7/020.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289674933-RKRTLTOVXSZ0BVCQY2BC/008+2.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289898761-OKS0U4EL61O16M1F663H/001.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289776192-84RUGW3YK28YLI1EU5LK/014+2.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289704547-H38QPBHNIZWW3X32EO61/008.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289758532-3TPQRXSB9K6YEY63B5V7/013.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289859487-1RUAL95U6D88PV9GCK00/019+2.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289794123-C25GTVIDZNGIUFQBTATB/015.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289809823-FNNQ2PKXNI5XZBMK9U5N/016.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289819617-LICKOQ0N7LQGOUB3VMXV/017+2.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438289836220-O7EPKAU81NZORS6PFZ8Z/017.jpg "Saltus Chori Aevum", 2012 http://mandygreer.org/sunshine-and-shadow-2003 daily 0.75 2015-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438752234604-Q2XA0T00J0ZNAA1PQWUQ/Sunshine+Yellow+Deer.jpg "Sunshine and Shadow", 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438752234604-Q2XA0T00J0ZNAA1PQWUQ/Sunshine+Yellow+Deer.jpg "Sunshine and Shadow", 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438752008455-Y4AROSDYVPFLABVTL9BM/Hot+Pink+MoonFIXED.jpg "Sunshine and Shadow", 2003 - Sunshine and Shadow King County Art Gallery, Seattle April 2003 This work began with its title. It comes from a phrase used by Amish quilters as metaphor for the color choices used in their quilts, as well as a referencing their beliefs about the struggles and triumphs as a faithful human being. You cannot have brilliant sunshine without creating dark shadows. And, likewise, the deep shadows of life provide a contrast and greater understanding of our brightest days. I’m particularly interested in this phrase and ideology because it’s a simple idea used to describe a utilitarian domestic object, yet at the same time, a profound understanding of the human condition. I chose the title for this show when my own life seemed clouded with a darkness. At the time, I chose it to investigate the shadow in my own life, not realizing that it was true; I too, like all of us, would be happy again and my sadness was and is a part of my happiness. This work began in the dark and ended in the light, but the shadow is always there The work for this installation, inspired by these ideas, stems from borrowing forms and materials from the domestic environment as a way to investigate a struggle at the heart of much of the work I do. With the struggle between our human nature and our animal nature, where do we fit into the natural world – where do we belong? We create the domestic environment to house our fragile bodies (a domain of both the male and female human animal) as well as to be a text of our ambivalence and longing to rejoin the natural world. I am intrigued by the rupture between the romanticized domestic interior (like what we see in decorator magazines like Martha Stewart & House and Garden) and the truth of where we really reside. We are still animals – the nice sheets get covered in sweat, stains, smells, grease, hair and other body fluids. I have aimed to overlay these images on top of one another. These have taken shape in forms I borrow from these magazines, such as forms that resemble trophy heads and antlers – images of death and a virile desire to concur nature. My antlers are billowing over with decorative illusions of nature sprung-eternal – ruffles, sequins, and a cornucopia of flowers I’ve sewn from old clothes. The Shadow Garden urns are, likewise, borrowed from our domestic manicured gardens , at once images of death to memorialize lament , as well as silent containers of a blooming future. The braided rag rugs have been a labor of love, sometimes maddening and relentless. They are true vortexes that contain a thousand connections to an unknowable amount of people, braided from over a mile of old clothing. It has also been pointed out to me that they reference an emasculated bulls-eye target. They are meant to both invite you in to this place and keep you out.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438752167654-1KS754WNHUV31BYSMA1M/Sunshine+Yellow+Deer+Flower+DetailFIXED.jpg "Sunshine and Shadow", 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438751993408-R6XSK0NKB8XEDPD173LJ/Hot+Pink+Moon+Root+Table+And+RugFIXED.jpg "Sunshine and Shadow", 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438752035363-VEX9UWIB5XGULJB7ORJQ/Shadow+Garden+2+With+Pink+PieceFIXED.jpg "Sunshine and Shadow", 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438752111505-BQMYUQ4TXYP8Y00011B1/Shadow+Garden+Rug+DetailFIXED+.jpg "Sunshine and Shadow", 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438751951394-88402KMCIUR3ZHUR86AV/black+rug+detail.jpg "Sunshine and Shadow", 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438751948563-6W8VC8JI4Y0F6870LOFP/Hot+Pink+Moon+Deer+DetailFIXED.jpg "Sunshine and Shadow", 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438752080399-I38XOU1AY0MKMSXOM5C6/Shadow+Garden+Detail+3+Solitary+Urn+with+Yellow+Deer+as+backgroundFIXED.jpg "Sunshine and Shadow", 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438752116944-IK148OCSH4KX6JKKNY9X/Shadow+Garden+Urn+with+deer+DetailFIXED.jpg "Sunshine and Shadow", 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438752175069-U5RFKOD0TV18I1NIXN8P/Sunshine+Yellow+Deer+RugFIXED.jpg "Sunshine and Shadow", 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438751969008-JSSH1ZYYEFEKW5G83SZV/Hot+Pink+Moon+Root+Table+.jpg "Sunshine and Shadow", 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438751993089-1DUY7OGQV18KDL5AYPCG/Hot+Pink+Moon+Tower+Detail.jpg "Sunshine and Shadow", 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438752059285-LBU0MJ6OSPKLE7B1VVD1/PlaidRageousFIXED.jpg "Sunshine and Shadow", 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438752221801-WFKRKKPNXO9S7DBCJFBV/Purple+and+black+antlers.jpg "Sunshine and Shadow", 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438752015716-L9ZQ47Y8S2OQWUYRE450/Pink+Antlers+With+White+Bird+Collage.jpg "Sunshine and Shadow", 2003 Review: Hall, Emily. “Stranger Suggests: Sunshine and Shadow” The Stranger (Washington), April 3, 2003 http://mandygreer.org/huldra-2015 daily 0.75 2015-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438222576045-COT173XN6F7NLRCHVQ3G/bonerise.jpg "Huldra", 2015 - 'Huldra's Mask’, 2015 When God came to call, a mother only managed to wash half her children and hid the rest. The children bear the burden of the mother’s neglect, the mother’s shame. They are the hidden, the unwashed. They are one part forest with a back splayed open like a dead-tree. Under charcoal skirts, a cow’s tail, at a side glance a cat’s face. Leave her a small offering and your farm won’t burn. I am both the mother and the child. I hide and I hide, as the mask both obscures and reveals. Featured at Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, in "Incantation" January 4- 31, 2015 From the gallery, “Incantation is an exhibition inspired by themes around death, rebirth, winter, and ritual. For centuries, artists have been captured by the seductive mystery of mysticism and the occult. The subject lends itself wholly to the dead of winter – a deeply symbolic time of renewal, introspection, and the first stirrings of life hinting at a far-off spring. As our Northern days still acquiesce to long winter nights, there is yet time for a multitude of rites, incantations, divination, and portends. Throughout these stories the depths of our desire, both beautiful and terrible, manifest.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438222576045-COT173XN6F7NLRCHVQ3G/bonerise.jpg "Huldra", 2015 - 'Huldra's Mask’, 2015 When God came to call, a mother only managed to wash half her children and hid the rest. The children bear the burden of the mother’s neglect, the mother’s shame. They are the hidden, the unwashed. They are one part forest with a back splayed open like a dead-tree. Under charcoal skirts, a cow’s tail, at a side glance a cat’s face. Leave her a small offering and your farm won’t burn. I am both the mother and the child. I hide and I hide, as the mask both obscures and reveals. Featured at Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, in "Incantation" January 4- 31, 2015 From the gallery, “Incantation is an exhibition inspired by themes around death, rebirth, winter, and ritual. For centuries, artists have been captured by the seductive mystery of mysticism and the occult. The subject lends itself wholly to the dead of winter – a deeply symbolic time of renewal, introspection, and the first stirrings of life hinting at a far-off spring. As our Northern days still acquiesce to long winter nights, there is yet time for a multitude of rites, incantations, divination, and portends. Throughout these stories the depths of our desire, both beautiful and terrible, manifest.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438222728610-47P3DI9N53U4AS825L5D/Full-Huldra_300.jpg "Huldra", 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438223094795-41YQL0MP6994CWYGHYW1/Huldra_Mask_wing_300.jpg "Huldra", 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438230083033-EDFINPVWUKSS99KU3UKR/bones_stones_300.jpg "Huldra", 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438222899950-5F5NMAML4XCSLZLLV99Q/Huldra_centered_300.jpg "Huldra", 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438228595459-66V5MGF90WNQ06OXHIY5/headdress_detail_300.jpg "Huldra", 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438228774599-2X0B7VSYTHGQYZ4FQ8HX/stones_bones_300.jpg "Huldra", 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438229000993-UPRLFKYTU7MBGZMU048Q/Huldramask_300.jpg "Huldra", 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438230463364-CFIO931YZPWK8DW2KVO0/Huldra_mask_300.jpg "Huldra", 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438229216870-VFBX5S3OX6DPS157AKCC/mask_detail_300.jpg "Huldra", 2015 http://mandygreer.org/silvering-path-2008 daily 0.75 2015-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626369717-9O8BQS8VRUA7U61MKKF0/head+in+tree+leaves.JPG "Silvering Path", 2008 - The Silvering Path Premiered October, 2008 at FREE SHEEP FOUNDATION The Silvering Path, an otherworldy contemporary fairy tale created out of a collaboration between Butoh performer Haruko Nishimura, installation artist Mandy Greer and filmmaker Ian Lucero, follows the undulating movements of a Slug Princess and her mercurial appetites and desires, and the lone wandering of a Sower, digging in the dirt only to find secret threads she weaves together into a life's work. Both meet in a poetic landscape, one of giant crocheted cabbages, jeweled slug slime and animated mushrooms that celebrates the regenerative creative power of the life cycle.' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626369717-9O8BQS8VRUA7U61MKKF0/head+in+tree+leaves.JPG "Silvering Path", 2008 - The Silvering Path Premiered October, 2008 at FREE SHEEP FOUNDATION The Silvering Path, an otherworldy contemporary fairy tale created out of a collaboration between Butoh performer Haruko Nishimura, installation artist Mandy Greer and filmmaker Ian Lucero, follows the undulating movements of a Slug Princess and her mercurial appetites and desires, and the lone wandering of a Sower, digging in the dirt only to find secret threads she weaves together into a life's work. Both meet in a poetic landscape, one of giant crocheted cabbages, jeweled slug slime and animated mushrooms that celebrates the regenerative creative power of the life cycle.' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626296024-DCOE1K01XOPM9VJ02D0A/Slug+Princess+head%3Ashoulders.jpg "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626451253-52LG6VHD136FSU6V5MSP/P1580627+copy.JPG "Silvering Path", 2008 My approach to this collaboration adventure was to just stay what I am – a sculptor and installation artist. I usually make large installations that transform spaces into seemingly enchanted environments, creating full body experiences, like trespassing on a theatrical set. This film turns this on its head; the remarkable environment we live in becomes a ready-made installation. I approached the body as an armature that is usually made of steel and paper mache, but now flesh, blood and Huge and Heroic Haruko spirit. Building a flexible but lumbering skin around her body was one approach to tap into the bizarre and almost otherworldly undulations of the Arion Slug. My Slug is a goddess, one of appetite and compassionate desire, moving all dead matter through its liminal state towards creative regeneration. In this cycle, none of us can escape the Silvering Path. In Haruko’s hands and body, the sculpture I started now tells its own story of hunger, indulgence, transformation and Eros. She is both creator and destroyer. The silvery slime continues in the vein of my installations from the past several years; which is to make visceral transitory states of the human emotional experience tangible through the overabundance of crocheted fabric. I’ve used Pheromones to represent love, Blood to show sacrifice and loyalty, and Milk is caretaking and the physicality of empathy. The Silvery mucus of a tiny creature can transform our bodies into infinite possibility, which is both terrifying and liberating. The thin glittering line represents the preciousness of our time here in this body, both valiant and evanescent. Just as in our film, our collaboration is three heads, hands and hearts woven together; So too are woven in a million tiny gestures, crochet stitches made by myself, friends and strangers alike. Like the Three Fates spinning out human destiny, our film keeps time with a woven cloth of soil. At the end, our hero looks back on a patchwork of her life’s work, both comforting and lasting and continuing to grow after she is gone. I can only hope for the same myself, and I believe it is the root of all creative actions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438634798212-FQTY65HDZDMAAHNF2I3N/image-asset.jpeg "Silvering Path", 2008 - The Silvering Path Film Preview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626327040-9KYXC2YTPRILGST23ULZ/Slug+Princess+full+back.jpg "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438812183360-PTQ6ZBF8LXGXE63EJI5M/SP%2C+film+still%2C+2008.JPG "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626276574-DVP6I9TQJA7FUQUFO983/Golden+Flower+detail.jpg "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626319044-Z91F5WWADGAUR6YOIEHZ/Seated+Sower.jpg "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626328873-XW37FVKBMKLRBGCHSBXJ/Sower+and+Slug+Princess+together.jpg "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626276009-18RCMWNQ3B53NJP1PL3I/Slug+Princess+Twist.jpg "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626308906-9Q2ZHU8SD9HC4H9NY9U6/trane+detail.jpg "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626282778-4FSR41R9J3Z9E3EUAU7L/Front+Slug+Princess.jpg "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626306856-VBEI52PWUCEI17UKJ2KH/Stoic+Sower+full.jpg "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626289286-BY5AQY3MBI7Y2TM7DLLV/Slug+Princess+revealed.jpg "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626319536-VGSAOED0XILHF65UJN2V/slug+into+princess.jpg "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626388146-VYWJ7SJZRIFF07TDW0S4/fixed+sower+walking.jpg "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626342558-F0GCQW8HA5TTD6JD7F95/Sower+closeup+profile.jpg "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626351357-Q6PRYGWRJQGMZIDGJKKF/Back+moving+Slug+Princess.jpg "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626340353-T6LO5LEYRWU9UOZXRPT4/Sower+torso.jpg "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626430343-DEF9N8MMLJZBV00KT8SH/P1580246+copy.JPG "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626405717-M05O9CX2UK50M6PPJ0TZ/P1580250+copy.JPG "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626425504-DVOXQABPC7IC9PBB86WK/P1580368+copy.JPG "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626445677-BCKKNQKI9BNP27H9X4P6/P1580390.JPG "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438626525977-4EFVPFN86FWTD44KUGMR/P1610163+++++++.JPG "Silvering Path", 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438635074937-OOMEX31AI23I8CG17WFE/image-asset.jpeg "Silvering Path", 2008 - 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Mandy Greer Studio Workshops The Silver Studio is the private studio of multi-disciplinary fiber artist Mandy Greer. Come join in her light-filled, custom built, private art studio in the trees, in the vibrant neighborhood of Columbia City, Seattle. Learn a variety of Fiber Arts, taught in her own expressive, play-centered style, whether you are a total beginner or have fiber experience. Workshops in Weaving, Circle Weaving, Beading, Pom-Poms, Garlands, Basket Making and more. Private Parties available too, for friends night out, work team building, holiday parties, birthdays. . . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1562698396749-0C6WNW6STHNC7ZPQS0H2/SM_IG_+Weaving+Promo+Sept__edited-1.jpg Projects - Modern Tapestry Weaving Workshop In this 5-hour workshop on table looms, you'll learn all the basic stitches, a few fancy stitches and more, in my unique take on tapestry weaving! Come join in at my light-filled custom built art studio atmosphere in the trees, with tea and snacks, and mamdmdm,sd,mn,mnjjdlkljdlkad lalkjalkd lKADJLKJLAD LKJAD LKJadlkjlkjad djlkjadjjllkjlkjdlkaJDLKJALKDJ L https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1580944883986-0PYT0RTHAMTS0BYX523F/final+update_Baskets+Sping.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/e8297138-8ef0-44bd-b767-670659b0c1ef/Indigo+poster+general.jpg Projects - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1579812585344-Q33Y45E49TEAIQVLHM3D/SPRING+2020+circle+promo-1.jpg Projects - Circle Weaving Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1580945056148-TUEEC5NGX0JVWIJC6XTH/March_+Spring2020+promo_edited-2.jpg Projects - Beaded Statement Neckpiece Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1580945135953-VLNB847HKN7U63IP5LIY/Color+explosion+promoe_edited-1.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1579589535124-KO1COO6Z0LLXGM3CDUBV/FEB+23+promo.jpg Projects - Modern Tapestry Weaving Workshop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1579592485974-HID8B49372R1PTE9NEHC/MAR+7+promo.jpg Projects - Modern Tapestry Weaving Workshop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1580945196116-QKNVQN47MKK7E78A8HS9/SM_April_weaving+promo_edited-1.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1579596893800-R7QAPWX71XIJD01ZYSLT/Intro+to+weaving+promo_edited-1.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1579595007132-L82MNZLFMTWQFSHNT8PV/promo_edited-1.jpg Projects - Pom Pom Accessories Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1579596021190-I73UI0CGP8FD5UL7Q5NP/Cowl+promo_edited-2.jpg Projects - Loom Knit Cowl Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1579812755103-ET60ZN6C3T2RDKNUE5JK/%245+weaving+workshops.jpg Projects - Want to come to a Weaving Workshop for $70 off? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1579812648851-LFLTEMP1C03VQJB77108/Private+partiesss.jpg Projects - Private Parties! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1579897739808-5ILFU8TL5F7OMON1HO9R/POm+pom+garland+place+holder.jpg Projects http://mandygreer.org/everymoment daily 0.75 2016-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438205878930-OIJQCT6PXM5VRCLAF6ZH/EML_full_stage.jpg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438205878930-OIJQCT6PXM5VRCLAF6ZH/EML_full_stage.jpg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438205894261-AAM6C1G9TW36O9KDQAK8/EML-above_silver.jpg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 - Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever MINIARTEXTIL :EROS, in Como Italy at Villa Olmo Oct. 15 – Dec. 1, 2013 ‘That which we love consumes us; a calling, a child, a lover. But not to oblivion but rather to regeneration. The wheel of time is propelled by the interrelation of Eros and Thanatos, flesh and smoke. These polarities are intertwined, like Inertia and Change. The destructive gobbling volcano buds new land, while the appetite of the carrion bird breeds new life. As a maker, I weep because I’ve lost my babe among the leaves, among the feathers. My child’s babyhood passed out of my hands as I worked fabric and yarn, crystals and beads. Did I miss it? I thought I recorded it in the sewn pearls, crocheted flesh. This piece is mourning and laughing for the moments lost, no matter how love wants them to be timeless, forever; the flesh changes, softens, sags, crackles then burns and drifts on a dancing wind. Eros and Thanatos pulls us around again.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438205861590-NSPJ43ISZOWN4RFK77GO/EML_Bbeak.jpg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438205870215-66E6HKIMXWVCZNTXIP5P/EML_ceiling_300.jpg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438205954461-CBRRBSJNCH6K9FBVXRM6/EML-smoke-shell%3Abone.jpg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 “I’m exhausted, emptied out by an all day-all night session of making paper chrysanthemums. Thin fleshy petals delicate and alive from my hands, but never enough. I need more and more and more. I’m in a hazy state that seems like light intoxication. My desire to make what I see in my head is gobbling me up, devouring me, like the boiling water around the Siren, pulling me in over my head. It’s what this work is about or more succinctly, what it is. An inverted lacy fleshy volcano of flesh, my flesh. My love both feeds everything that I am and seems to pull me apart. I burn up energy to take care of my family and to take care of my work. Sometimes, as all mothers do but seldom feel safe to really admit, I resent what I have to give. I want to be alone in my floating pool of pale chrysanthemums, head just below the water, all sound muffled into a heartbeat. But the flowers, the birds, every stitch in itself is an homage to what love demands of me, a record of my devotion to them that I cannot help but feel. I accept the bobbing state of tension between the forces that create and consume me. There is no resolve of it, but to work. Not long ago, I was opening a public restroom door in a great hurry, pulling hard, Just as on the other side a very old woman was pushing on it to come in, using one hand, cane in the other. My pull threw her off balance and straight over into me, my hands came out to grab both her hands and arms to catch her. I instinctively gripped her, like I have as I’ve caught falling toddlers, reflexes quicksilver but gentle. I felt a shock of human electricity in that half second, as well as the hardly imaginable softness of her paper-thin skin. Her hands were like decaying silk, like poppy petals that have already fallen to the table. One might imagine frailty from age, from time, and yes frailty was there. But also was the fire that had used up the paper, turning it to floating motes of ash. The fire that burns us up is also there. When I am done with this body of mine, I want to have used up everything, I want to exist as a falling petal into the ash, knowing that there is no more to give. That I have given in to it all, and that to me is vitality. A circle of fleshy carrion birds will loom above in this installation, creatures that exist to release what is dead, in a frenzy of hunger, into a new state. The heat and fertile darkness of the gorge. That we will exist even beyond the confines of our own body is beautiful and full of vitality as well. ” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438205904910-989JFKBPR7ZIO2I6I8F6/EML-cone_ceiling.jpg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438205889371-OUPLXQD87PC3HCRV4IME/EML_underB.jpg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438205931970-RKIZV2KA4UBQ0P4HPOX9/EML-full-balcony.jpg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438205922160-BGJY2GX5DXT2BIVUATFY/EML-detail-smoke.jpg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438205943261-OYE9P7R6G26YDVUVORH2/EML-net+above.jpg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438205975370-DXZW3AXR8U4IQPW6HIYW/EML-upnet.jpg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438205948725-494ND6WZZAE66TYXK5BM/EML-smoke_beads.jpg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438205989314-X7MNMUSIH7Z0SDTUUEBH/O_EML_ceiling.jpg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438205960307-IVSEHYSJOJ6OPTZNFAMZ/EML-smokebottom.jpg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438205980227-0I5R34NX9LLUAUT3GP79/EML-upper+basket.jpg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438205965952-3CEG36YA1E58LF64HIEZ/EML-tightdetail-smoke.jpg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever is featured in New York Times “Stitching Together Yarn, Memory and History” By SUSAN HODARA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438207309645-W707LPWKWJSZ1BLBDLF6/image-asset.jpeg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 - Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever Filmed on location at the 18th century Villa Olmo on the banks of Lago di Como, Italy this film is a companion to Mandy Greer's installation and performance 'Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever', first created for the international fiber installation exhibition MINIARTEXTIL : Eros on Oct 12, 2013. Mandy Greer and company activate her installation with a 2 hour durational performance that interlaces competing notions of time, loss, nurturing, trauma, healing and regeneration. Three characters, in elaborate and intricate costumes, enact both cyclical, mythological time and linear, finite human time. Re-interpreting the time god Kronos through repeated knitting and unknitting, the hearth goddess Hestia through cleansing and conjuring, and the figure of Khaos - literally the shadowy space between heaven and earth and pure uncontrollable creativity - these three characters create an entrancing environment with the installation that bridges gaps between everyday domestic tasks and sanctified ritual. Intimately performed by Greer, her husband artist Paul Margolis and their young son, the movements take on the trust and tension inherent in family dynamics. The installation is a delicate confection of flesh pinks and silvery greys, an abstracted up-side-down volcano of lace and stitched leather carrion birds where polarities are intertwined, like Inertia and Change. Greer writes "‘That which we love consumes us; a calling, a child, a lover. But not to oblivion but rather to regeneration. The wheel of time is propelled by the interrelation of Eros and Thanatos, flesh and smoke. The destructive gobbling volcano buds new land, while the appetite of the carrion bird breeds new life. As a maker, I weep because I’ve lost my babe among the leaves, among the feathers. My child’s babyhood passed out of my hands as I worked fabric and yarn, crystals and beads. Did I miss it? I thought I recorded it in the sewn pearls, crocheted flesh. This piece is mourning and laughing for the moments lost, no matter how love wants them to be timeless, forever; the flesh changes, softens, sags, crackles then burns and drifts on a dancing wind. Eros and Thanatos pulls us around again.’ The installation and performance has traveled to Le Beffroi, Montrouge, Paris in February 2014 and to The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY as part of Mandy Greer's solo show 'The Ecstatic Moment" June 7- September 14, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1462754362804-1GQKX4D330JV723831QX/EML_Paris.jpg "Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever", 2013 - Every Moment Lost is Lost Forever in Paris The installation and performance have also been presented at Le Beffroi, Montrouge, Paris in February, 2014 and as part of ‘Mandy Greer: The Ecstatic Moment’, a solo exhibition at The Hudson River Museum, June 7th – September 14, 2014. http://mandygreer.org/mater-matrix-mother-and-medium-2009 daily 0.75 2015-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642141289-MNC56SGPFQNJUJD5ISMO/GREER-MMMM-4.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642141289-MNC56SGPFQNJUJD5ISMO/GREER-MMMM-4.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642024144-H7FU9QYB5DRJPVFL1PE2/GREER-MMMM-1.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 - “Mater Matrix Mother and Medium” Project blog: matermatrixmother.wordpress.com Now an on-going project, Mater Matrix Mother and Medium began in 2009, originally commissioned by the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs using the Seattle Public Utilities (our water utility) 1% for Art Funds, as a way to encourage stewardship, to celebrate and interpret the splendor of Seattle’s urban creeks and watersheds. “This project began with the communal creation of a 200+ foot crocheted ‘fiber river’ installation, created in part through a series of over 30 community crochet events held over three months all over Seattle during the spring of 2009. I taught anyone willing to learn how to crochet, with some contributing a few minutes of chain stitch and others sticking with me for a few hours and returning to multiple events around the city. I then took the fiber “pools” into the forest of Camp Long, an urban park in Seattle, and spent the next six weeks in-residence on a ladder crocheting and integrating the river into the trees, a brilliant blue flow moving through the forest from ground level up to heights of 25 feet. This artwork is a unique blend of community engagement and personal inquiry, of site-embedded installation and performance. It embodies the ancient human practice of acknowledging our own physicality rooted in the cycles of water and how this forms the very foundation of human community. Water, both mundane and miraculous, mirrors the everyday meeting of strangers and the tiny moments that begin to bond us together. The River is made up of thousands upon thousands of tiny moments and movements of individual citizens, integrated and interwoven into the natural environment. Inspired by the Clooty Well tradition of Celtic regions – bits of cloth tied to trees around sacred wells bind intention into action — MMMM is an exploration of how we ourselves are both literal and metaphoric manifestations of the living fundamental quality of water. Our experience of water is both one of intimacy and also of civic structure.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642173677-7V9W0JBJ826H3M0TPA9R/GREER-MMMM-7.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438641934545-SFXU29FNRWEPC2QY4XV0/DSC_0029.JPG "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642223691-0LNL3ZRGJESN3OVTR850/GREER-MMMM-38.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 The 2009 Performance On July 16, 2009, the culmination of the “Mater Matrix Mother and Medium ” project was a one-time performance produced in collaboration between myself, dancer Zoe Scofield and composer Morgan Henderson, at Camp Long, an urban park in Seattle,Wa. It was a hushed reflection on the subtle dynamics of a forest embedded in the urban environment, as organic as it is artificial. All three artists — myself, Zoe and Morgan — responded in our own way to the quirky overgrown tranquility of Camp Long’s little pond. Our intent was to invite the audience to sit for a short time in quiet observation of the rhythms of this unusual site, heightening their focus through sound, movement, breath and site-responsive installation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642196240-HXBL0OB6X0EWOBIPNP49/GREER-MMMM-32.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642206519-ZUXRVY9ZG7NM804HTZB7/GREER-MMMM-34.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642218264-1ZAND66IQ0JP77DZJECD/GREER-MMMM-37.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 - What I had to say in 2009 about the original ‘Process’ “One of my strongest desires for this project is to bring its making out into the community, rather than solely behind studio doors. For the past several years creating my large installations has involved, in some part, asking for volunteer help from friends and acquaintances in my studio. The flow of conversation that always happens while people are working with their hands has always intrigued me; I’d like to open up that conversation on a larger scale with the people in all our communities in Seattle. This project is about opening up the process of creating of an artwork to Seattle citizens, rather than an object just showing up in a park one day. Throughout the spring and early summer, you can watch me and join in the building of a river of recycled fabrics and yarn. Small tiny gestures of the hands will transform mundane materials like old clothes into something fantastic, a glowing blue river literally woven into the trees. Then we can watch as Zoe Scofield, an ordinary woman of flesh and blood, transforms herself into something both delicate and ferocious.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642122486-6WRITKQ6YI6KQ588QIK7/GREER-MMMM-3.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642199328-2QLYWZ1NBNHVPXKUHAQR/GREER-MMMM-33.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642213333-GUCFGPDA3HTR8BLQUJ5J/GREER-MMMM-36.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642233386-2BZRXQVMTQ4H8KKJ8I3K/GREER-MMMM-40.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642035258-0X33GHKZBNBNR592PWFT/GREER-MMMM-2.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 - ‘MMMM’ becomes on-going… During the installation, many people came to the park, wanting to continue to crochet even beyond the completion of the installation; and when I was invited to participate in the “Still Water” exhibition at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta in late 2009, I realized that there did not have to be an arbitrary end to continuing the process of making this installation with any community that wanted to engage with a myriad of topics about water. The issues at stake about water and community where by no means Seattle-specific, but indeed water issues impact every person on the planet. The installation was carefully cut down from the trees in 20-foot sections, packed and taken to the trees in Atlanta. And like water, the crocheted water takes the shape of the vessel that holds it. The installation has now been re-created 5 times, each time becoming a very different shape and engaging in urban to rural environments. To re-create the installation each time, it require a 100 hours of patient shaping from myself and artist Paul Margolis, as we piece back together cuts and crochet together tears or fibers that have become fragile from the weather or the sun, creating brighter blue veins running next to beautifully sun-worn pale blues by adding new materials and thousands of new stitches. Each time I install the installation community participation is key; I am hosted by new communities and gather people together around piles of recycled yarns and fabrics. And those small round fiber ‘pools’, often made from left-over scraps from when the installation is previously cut down, are also integrated back into the river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642107785-AX28M2E8N1NYKWCMNLOW/DSC_0378.JPG "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642166070-3FZQU8U8DKYV1HK7V4LF/DSC_0479.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 In 2010, with funding from the 4Culture SITE Specific program, “Mater Matrix Mother and Medium” traveled to sites around the Northwest, including Herbert Bayer’s landmark Earthworks, adding more hands and stitches to the flow.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642172321-FNOIDRRZSNT9SFY2TEP2/GREER-MMMM-8.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642012156-ROV3PLPA9311T14VTB0R/DSC_0063.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438641989405-5VLJVK1ZALQZJMDWN0LB/DSC_0215.JPG "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642185984-LHYHZLVTCA5GOIZ6NG3O/GREER-MMMM-10.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642151628-GCWH3KUCPBH18SOQS99K/GREER-MMMM-5.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642048725-MV7U3V1PZLNH5IS44FNI/GREER-MMMM-20.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642097901-7B96VIUQX87TYWKQAP2U/cathedral+crochet.JPG "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438735525321-4EZKRJOOHLMGOTZHNPDF/384003_10150373841241943_741718637_n.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 - Fall 2011 In 2011, with the invitation to install MMMM in the massive and awe-inspiring Gothic stone architecture of The Cathedral of St. John the Divine — to engage with massive columns of stone as a natural site — I am reminded of my earliest desire for the installation, to investigate the notions of the sacredness of water that every culture throughout history has held, and how we have lost sight of that sense of water by only relating to it as a commodity, to the detriment of the planet and those who cannot afford it when it is privatized. The need and right to clean water is something we all share. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438735546264-Z8R320WGBAX7AFLIX0UR/looking-up-into-copy.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642061954-W0V7YQG66YO5YNUDM096/GREER-MMMM-23.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642072734-ZQAINBVJST5RVN0TK9B6/GREER-MMMM-24.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438738502865-50NGCDRRNCNES09PMYKG/013.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 - Spring 2012 MMMM was invited to remount at the Seattle Center to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the 1962 Worlds Fair with the Next Fifty program. The Office Of Arts and Cultural Affairs and Seattle Public Utilities 1% for Art commissioned a new and larger performance that took place May 2012 at the Dupen Fountain in collaboration with Seattle-based multi-media artists; dancer/choreographer Jessica Jobaris, harp poet Monica Schley, vocalist/performance artist Saskia Delores and filmmaker Rodrigo Valenzuela. This new site-specific performance titled “Saltus Chori Aevum” also generated footage for a companion film by Valenzuela. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642161168-S35T45QZ79HG7SZQ2BE3/GREER-MMMM-6.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642183152-HPRJV76FKKTD4P6HUS32/GREER-MMMM-11.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642193208-Y6YF1EVI5W7P3Y92FOFV/GREER-MMMM-17.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438735572681-G3OL6IA5WJJ5NPZABGG1/img_0125.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 - Summer 2013 The Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue Wa. invited MMMM to span several city blocks as a celebration of the 67th anniversary of the BAM ARTSfair. The largest iteration of the Mater Matrix Mother and Medium to date, people from around the country contributed pieces to expand the installation to span 600 feet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438735577682-QMJEL13V3NEEM5V1DN6R/img_0052+copy.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438735561736-R9Q1V6RUJKU8HELG8UKG/img_0096.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642235462-B8O1KJKWYT399OWVPD7I/Hazel+River+2.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438642083724-ROFDW8GITD1X0NKM365D/GREER-MMMM-25.jpg "Mater Matrix Mother and Medium", 2009 - 2014 Reviews for MMMM Graves, Jen. “Mud on the Leaves and Mud at the Root”, The Stranger (Washington), July 24, 2009 Shimp, Rachel. “Art and Conversation Flows from Hands, Heart…” The Seattle Times (Wa.), July 3, 2009   http://mandygreer.org/the-library-unbound-2004-2005 daily 0.75 2015-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438743552416-UJYQ2Y0NJ54FY5RAAA7W/Library+all+three.JPG "The Library Unbound", 2004-2005 - The Library Unbound: The Phoenix Fairy, Babe and The Magic Grove Seattle Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas Permanent public installation, commissioned by The Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 2004-2005 The concept for “The Library Unbound” series asked that I probe the meaning of the library; its staff and patrons, its functions and collections. I chose to focus on the individual child patron who walks through the door with a seed -- an itch of an idea-- and the process that happens as they bounce back and forth through centuries, places, worlds far, near and non-existent to find what they did not even know they were looking for. The process is called research, but how often these moments of serendipitous discovery have re-shaped the direction of our lives. I created work for the Children’s Center to honor the very first interactions we have with the library, as we learn it is a place for personal exploration. I endeavored to create work for the child that would appeal to their natural intelligence by being elegant, thought-provoking, exciting, mysterious. I wanted to create work that was, at once, about research as well as a product of it. Each piece serves as a metaphor for a different idea of research. Research, the dry dull word, is really a disguise for what compels us to know more; our life’s work, our calling, our passion. For The Phoenix Fairy, it is the metaphor of the continual rebirth of knowledge while at the same time staying constant. For Babe, the metaphor is that history is a past that rests just below the surface of things, rich discovery waiting to happen if we just investigate what resides around us. For The Magical Grove, the metaphor is the expansion of a seed of an idea planted within us into the ongoing flourishing of our life. As an artist, my work has often dealt with narrative and story, but this has been my first venture into inspiration from actual texts. Each sculpture has been inspired by a suite of books, all from the Folklore section.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438743552416-UJYQ2Y0NJ54FY5RAAA7W/Library+all+three.JPG "The Library Unbound", 2004-2005 - The Library Unbound: The Phoenix Fairy, Babe and The Magic Grove Seattle Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas Permanent public installation, commissioned by The Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 2004-2005 The concept for “The Library Unbound” series asked that I probe the meaning of the library; its staff and patrons, its functions and collections. I chose to focus on the individual child patron who walks through the door with a seed -- an itch of an idea-- and the process that happens as they bounce back and forth through centuries, places, worlds far, near and non-existent to find what they did not even know they were looking for. The process is called research, but how often these moments of serendipitous discovery have re-shaped the direction of our lives. I created work for the Children’s Center to honor the very first interactions we have with the library, as we learn it is a place for personal exploration. I endeavored to create work for the child that would appeal to their natural intelligence by being elegant, thought-provoking, exciting, mysterious. I wanted to create work that was, at once, about research as well as a product of it. Each piece serves as a metaphor for a different idea of research. Research, the dry dull word, is really a disguise for what compels us to know more; our life’s work, our calling, our passion. For The Phoenix Fairy, it is the metaphor of the continual rebirth of knowledge while at the same time staying constant. For Babe, the metaphor is that history is a past that rests just below the surface of things, rich discovery waiting to happen if we just investigate what resides around us. For The Magical Grove, the metaphor is the expansion of a seed of an idea planted within us into the ongoing flourishing of our life. As an artist, my work has often dealt with narrative and story, but this has been my first venture into inspiration from actual texts. Each sculpture has been inspired by a suite of books, all from the Folklore section.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438743485545-S44TKLSG2AKV6AD0WJZ6/Babe+cheek+close-up.JPG "The Library Unbound", 2004-2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438743476160-D95DXETY7UMREWZ143WK/babe+full+front+17.JPG "The Library Unbound", 2004-2005 Babe There is always history where ever we go, waiting to be discovered and rediscovered. This is the concept I want to convey to the children of Seattle with Babe, a large glitteringly beautiful portrait bust of the Blue Ox. I had a dim understanding, like many transplants to the area, that Seattle was built on the logging industry. But knew little more than that. What I discovered, from the resources at the library, is that there is a rich connection between the logging history of the US, the creation and recording of Paul Bunyan folklore and the Pacific Northwest, namely, Seattle. I see the Ox, quietly looming above the stacks like an oracle, as if observing the activity, reminding children that the library can bring us to a better understanding of our own surroundings, and the history of it just below the surface. Back when Seattle was the deep woods, a unique oral tradition was continuing to grow, one brought here by the migrating loggers as they made their way from Maine to Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and then to the Pacific Northwest. The Paul Bunyan legends weren't originally intended to please children, but rather to entertain and distract the roughest of men from incredible hardships and an extremely dangerous way of life. Paul Bunyan was a hero to people who were cut off from larger society, perhaps immigrants, who needed to feel they possessed extraordinary abilities, courage and where a part of something great. As loggers moved from camp to camp, the unique quality of that camp's stories would go with him, be retold and mixed with the flavor of the new camp. This is how we have stories about the Puget Sound that seem vaguely familiar to the ones about the Lake States. In his book published in 1947, Seattle historian James Stevens calls the stories “the art of the plain American”, a highly imaginative, inventive and outlandish creative output by people who mostly were not extensively schooled and many most likely could not read. Stevens writes “ thousands of unknown narrators ... contributed to this legend and, today, our understanding of that time as they saw it, not what was written down by people outside of the camps. “ For the children of today, these outlandish and preposterous stories can function as a primary source, a clear view right though Babe's eyes to the way it was. I chose to be inspired more by the nature of the past than by the Big Men. In the story of Babe's birth, we see an introspective, intimate vision of Paul, but we also see the stunning beauty of Babe. And this is where my vision of the Ox comes from.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438743523499-I71EZF26YMEYBJEYIWFV/babesidecloseup.jpg "The Library Unbound", 2004-2005 “The drifts of the beautiful unnatural snow melted away in streams of blue water, and the marvelous color of this historic winter vanished, but the glittering blue of Be`be`'s silken hair remained. His tail brush was of a darker blue; it looked like a heavily foliaged cypress bough in purple twilight; and Be`be` was proud of this wonderful tail brush that belonged to him, for he would twist it from behind him and turn his head and stare at it by the hour” -- James Stevens “The Winter of the Blue Snow”   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438743507217-FZX44OEZU070GWFTYHYH/close+up+Phoenix+feathers.jpg "The Library Unbound", 2004-2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438743527989-CFYZ9P06HXOWRXTRYOPW/full+Phoenix.jpg "The Library Unbound", 2004-2005 The Phoenix Fairy The body of ideas and imagery about the Phoenix arches across mythology, astrology, astronomy, world religions, animal behavior, history and children's literature. There are so many different interpretations of her, but in essence, she is a symbol of renewal, of resilience (because of her trial by fire), and of immortality. This desire for immortality spans across nearly every religious tradition, and is a persistent human fixation in one form or another. But the Phoenix illustrates a particular view of immortality. The corporeal body of the bird ages; she becomes haggard, world weary and foresees her death. Reborn from her own ashes, she is the same bird, but also a different bird , a new bird. Hers is not a life of static sameness but is reborn at every age. Early on, while discussing my ideas about this image with the children's librarians, one made an analogy between the Phoenix and the Central library, how the new building is a rebirth of the library – re-invisioned concepts, new body, but its core purpose the same. Its store of wisdom and knowledge remains. It even emerges from the site of the old, for the third time. I'd like to extend this analogy to Knowledge itself; continually reinvented as it stays the same . Human inquiry seems always in a state of re-discovery of what has passed as well as innovation unimagined before. As an emblem of children’s guide through the library, the Phoenix Fairy rests in the rafters close to the literal stewards of the children's section; perched above the librarians' information desk, the red of her feathers picks up the red of their desk, as well as the red of the information centers throughout the library.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438743622374-K847TAOB8ZPP3ALPD5JU/Phoenix+chest+close+up.JPG "The Library Unbound", 2004-2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438743570197-U07G8698KKWJEVB8YZRE/larger+close+up+Phoenix+feathers.jpg "The Library Unbound", 2004-2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438743598255-U6K3XONFORZTTRUMNSXR/Magic+grove.JPG "The Library Unbound", 2004-2005 The Magic Grove Over and over again in children's books and in the child imagination, the outside grows in. It's a persistent dream that, I daresay, lasts into adulthood. In childhood, we are given and invent images, and seem to accept more readily the possibility that animals can converse with us, trees are a willing participant in our lives, and anything we can imagine might actually happen. Perhaps the quintessential example of this willingness to allow the outside to come in, and by doing so, allow the inside to come out, is when Max in Where the Wild Things Are begins to watch his bedroom fade into a jungle, grass pokes up from the carpet, trees appear in the corner , and he is ruler of his imagination. As I talked to children and adults about their favorite books, over and over I was told about this moment in the book, as I do remember its potent effect from my own childhood. There are at least 200 books in the children's section that have trees as their main character, representing an equally large variety of cultural traditions and symbolic meanings. The symbol of the tree can mean bountiful growth, fertility, sustenance as it feeds both our body and our mind. The tree can embody family, home, protection, with a root system anchored firmly to a place while the branches continue to extend ever outward. They are elders in our tribes, entire eco-systems, circulators of energy. As a human community, we are beguiled by the symbiotic relationship we have with these organisms. The Magic Grove is inspired both by a Persian Folktale, and an image in my mind of what it might look like if every one of those 200+ tree books literally began to grow, the Children’s Center truly would be a magic grove.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438743583209-NNGGCXO6DO8EBQV55VY4/Magic+Grove+branch+close+up.JPG "The Library Unbound", 2004-2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438743610821-LL5PVIWA5HQ3ULA5TPIO/Magic+Grove+wall+close+up.JPG "The Library Unbound", 2004-2005 http://mandygreer.org/small-but-mighty-wandering-pearl-2006 daily 0.75 2015-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438740521995-MJKF9X5FGTZWMOLP8MCC/view+from+deer+chest.jpg "Small but Mighty Wandering Pearl", 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438740521995-MJKF9X5FGTZWMOLP8MCC/view+from+deer+chest.jpg "Small but Mighty Wandering Pearl", 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438740475816-MLVTGG6IMB133MULUHYD/full+side+view+installation.jpg "Small but Mighty Wandering Pearl", 2006 - Small but Mighty wandering Pearl Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle, 2006 Bloodletting has been an auspicious event in the story of my life, if I were to look at it as a story. My task of late has been to capture, in my hands in tangible form, the precious delight and precious violence this blood has brought into my life. Great transformations in our lives are often accompanied by a violent killing-off of old selves, and we emerge as something new, raw and exquisite. In my life, these transformations have twice come about from an excruciating love that has been signaled by an actual bleed, as if, according to Vitalism, my humours were balanced by the trauma. Bleeding cures were once thought to bring harmony to a disrupted soul, the shadows scrubbed clean. My husband’s ruptured organs and buckets of blood allowed me to admit that I could do nothing but love him, in spite of how that love would tear apart what I thought was my life. But I killed off one self to find a more authentic one below. Then, as the story goes, our blood together became another’s. I’ll never forget the gush of beautiful viscera and what felt like the joyful expelling of my own internal organs when I gave birth to my son. Reading those entrails, I was a seer of an unknowable future. Holding a day-old human being in my hands, I could not shake the feeling that he was one of my vital organs that should still be inside me, an organ that contained my very life force and without him I would die. Our umbilical cord was a shared limb, our blood once separated by the thinnest of membranes, our first communication. I mourned for the phantom limb, and am still unable to believe there isn’t a cord that binds me to him. And when he is away, there is always a lingering ache where my vital organ used to be. Both loves are a Small but Mighty Wandering Pearl. It is a translation of my husband’s name and an accurate description of my child. Blood has been a subject, if not a material, in art-making since art-making began. But this blood here is my blood, my family’s blood and the blood that binds me to those I love. I believe I owe a debt of gratitude to Yann Martel’s The Life of Pi, in which I found the nobility in death of an eviscerated zebra. I was gripped by the idea of this ultimate exposure, to see one’s organs while alive as both terrifying and somehow exhilarating. I remember as a child, seeing a mortally wounded cat emit such rage and electricity, I could only imagine the authority a mortally wounded large animal would emanate. I also, of course, am referencing the many myths of the White Stag. The story always seems to follow that a beleaguered person enters the wilderness to hunt the white stag and through an otherworldly adventure then emerges from the wood cured.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438740506828-0FZFLDNAR1EWYM346332/Perfect+red+chandeleirRN.jpg "Small but Mighty Wandering Pearl", 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438740460528-W7DILBOVJIAEV1HS1L5G/deer+head+and+chest.jpg "Small but Mighty Wandering Pearl", 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438740437231-S48OU3PS84OH16W1PPGC/chandelier+in+foreground.jpg "Small but Mighty Wandering Pearl", 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438740531962-2GPHPGV8QPVE9Z7CHKXU/Wound+detail.jpg "Small but Mighty Wandering Pearl", 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438740463003-RX81MS9TUMP9NBPI3QO0/deer+head.jpg "Small but Mighty Wandering Pearl", 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438740494956-T17REAU2OBWMZAPLYJLI/guts+close+up.jpg "Small but Mighty Wandering Pearl", 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438741880728-X2SKIGJWK7XSKMZ45XNR/image-asset.jpeg "Small but Mighty Wandering Pearl", 2006 - Small but Mighty Wandering Pearl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438812116052-EPYGVHQMDIXA7B7FVBH0/SBMWP%2C+2006.JPG "Small but Mighty Wandering Pearl", 2006 http://mandygreer.org/the-wolf-prince-and-parrot-princess-2004 daily 0.75 2015-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438787582091-3LDW56WD37QEXA2BC14F/Pom+Pom+Chandelier+And+RugFIXED.jpg "The Wolf Prince and Parrot Princess", 2004 - The Wolf Prince and The Parrot Princess Priceless Works Gallery, Seattle, April 2004 “The Wolf Prince and the Parrot Princess, a show that might just be about a fairy tale about finding one’s soul mate in the last place imaginable, where a snowy landscape of an absurd pom-pom chandelier and a giant white rag rug are the icy setting for the Wolf Prince to devour his true love and the Parrot Princess to pine for her Pirate, lost at sea. A thousand snowballs, hundreds of found feathers, re-animated animal skins, intimate collaged silhouette portraits of the parted lovers and crocheted blood make up this installation, a musing on loyalty, transgressive love, oblivion and memento.”   There is a story that is both old and new….many of us have loved wrong. Wrong, according to our family, our culture, our society, our peers. But we have loved none the less, and found our soul mate in spite of the transgression. An archetypal human transgression, the story is as old as we are, and as current as last week’s news. Think Romeo and Juliet. Think of all the couples in San Francisco and elsewhere insisting upon their rights to legalize their union. “Don’t love that person” we are told, and we do it anyway. The Wolf Prince and the Parrot Princess is my own story, my own fairy tale, a way for me to record and muse upon my own entrance into this larger story. I have been enthralled with the Fairy Tale because we both long to be a part of one and believe it will never happen. But sometimes they do. We occasionally find ourselves in the middle of one, in those fleeting moments of falling in love, when we really do walk on air, birds land on our fingers and sing sweetly around our head, and we know we will really live happily ever after. Grimm’s fairy tales are terrific. Finding true love is a gruesome, bloody affair, a trial by fire to find the most trustworthy. Usually one’s soul mate is cursed by a witch, and the only way to see the truth is by purity of heart, or tearing off their false skin and tossing it into a fire. When I was young, I never dreamed of a Prince on a White Horse to come sweep me away, but a Wolf Prince to chase me across the snow, tear me to pieces and devour me. We would never be apart. I am drawn to the Wolf because they are known for their incredible loyalty, staying with one mate for life. Yet throughout the Fairy Tale genre, the Wolf is hated, hunted and feared. I love the Beast in Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast. I believe he cried diamond tears. My beast, my Wolf bleeds the crystal blood of his beloved. And now, I am the Parrot Princess. She is an embodiment of finding true love in the last place imagined, in her case, the wrong species. Parrots are known to become devoted for life (long lives of 75 years) to another parrot or a human companion. This is why we see the parrot with the pirate. The perfect couple. What human lover would have the pirate? But the Parrot Princess is ever there, upon his shoulder, even as his ship goes down. And why do we all, the Parrot Princess, the Wolf Prince, you and me meet in a snowy landscape? I have borrowed from one of my favorites, Robert Frost. To me, much of his poetry is about an essential human struggle to figure out how to exist between two longings; a longing to leave this world, and a longing to return to home, to love. In his poems, a narrator gazes into a snowy landscape or other desolate space, longing for oblivion, to disappear. But love brings them back; even the pain of love and knowing it will eventually lead to the greatest loss. It is still better to know it once. I have made my own snowy landscape, an oblivion for us to gaze into, to enter for a moment, then return home.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438787582091-3LDW56WD37QEXA2BC14F/Pom+Pom+Chandelier+And+RugFIXED.jpg "The Wolf Prince and Parrot Princess", 2004 - The Wolf Prince and The Parrot Princess Priceless Works Gallery, Seattle, April 2004 “The Wolf Prince and the Parrot Princess, a show that might just be about a fairy tale about finding one’s soul mate in the last place imaginable, where a snowy landscape of an absurd pom-pom chandelier and a giant white rag rug are the icy setting for the Wolf Prince to devour his true love and the Parrot Princess to pine for her Pirate, lost at sea. A thousand snowballs, hundreds of found feathers, re-animated animal skins, intimate collaged silhouette portraits of the parted lovers and crocheted blood make up this installation, a musing on loyalty, transgressive love, oblivion and memento.”   There is a story that is both old and new….many of us have loved wrong. Wrong, according to our family, our culture, our society, our peers. But we have loved none the less, and found our soul mate in spite of the transgression. An archetypal human transgression, the story is as old as we are, and as current as last week’s news. Think Romeo and Juliet. Think of all the couples in San Francisco and elsewhere insisting upon their rights to legalize their union. “Don’t love that person” we are told, and we do it anyway. The Wolf Prince and the Parrot Princess is my own story, my own fairy tale, a way for me to record and muse upon my own entrance into this larger story. I have been enthralled with the Fairy Tale because we both long to be a part of one and believe it will never happen. But sometimes they do. We occasionally find ourselves in the middle of one, in those fleeting moments of falling in love, when we really do walk on air, birds land on our fingers and sing sweetly around our head, and we know we will really live happily ever after. Grimm’s fairy tales are terrific. Finding true love is a gruesome, bloody affair, a trial by fire to find the most trustworthy. Usually one’s soul mate is cursed by a witch, and the only way to see the truth is by purity of heart, or tearing off their false skin and tossing it into a fire. When I was young, I never dreamed of a Prince on a White Horse to come sweep me away, but a Wolf Prince to chase me across the snow, tear me to pieces and devour me. We would never be apart. I am drawn to the Wolf because they are known for their incredible loyalty, staying with one mate for life. Yet throughout the Fairy Tale genre, the Wolf is hated, hunted and feared. I love the Beast in Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast. I believe he cried diamond tears. My beast, my Wolf bleeds the crystal blood of his beloved. And now, I am the Parrot Princess. She is an embodiment of finding true love in the last place imagined, in her case, the wrong species. Parrots are known to become devoted for life (long lives of 75 years) to another parrot or a human companion. This is why we see the parrot with the pirate. The perfect couple. What human lover would have the pirate? But the Parrot Princess is ever there, upon his shoulder, even as his ship goes down. And why do we all, the Parrot Princess, the Wolf Prince, you and me meet in a snowy landscape? I have borrowed from one of my favorites, Robert Frost. To me, much of his poetry is about an essential human struggle to figure out how to exist between two longings; a longing to leave this world, and a longing to return to home, to love. In his poems, a narrator gazes into a snowy landscape or other desolate space, longing for oblivion, to disappear. But love brings them back; even the pain of love and knowing it will eventually lead to the greatest loss. It is still better to know it once. I have made my own snowy landscape, an oblivion for us to gaze into, to enter for a moment, then return home.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438787702800-JKZ961KK1LOT4YFYMUGZ/Wolf+Prince.jpg "The Wolf Prince and Parrot Princess", 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438787569522-RXOUNZ4QE5BPU2NVPR76/Parrot+PrincessFIXED.jpg "The Wolf Prince and Parrot Princess", 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438787625927-FTGLPQBAS627TK0B33J0/Wolf+Prince+and+ChandelierFIXED.jpg "The Wolf Prince and Parrot Princess", 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438787666782-6GW4Z8J7I27CORNKMOMB/Wolf+Prince+head+copy.jpg "The Wolf Prince and Parrot Princess", 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438787549998-EP17SVN0QB88G88J3U63/Parrot+Princess+Close+upFIXED.jpg "The Wolf Prince and Parrot Princess", 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438787508125-XK83M0HRWD0V5SQ4CCWD/Pom+Pom+Chandelier+Detail.jpg "The Wolf Prince and Parrot Princess", 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438787502421-16PNJMQ81HO8H3CYNXXR/Pom+Pom+Chandelier.jpg "The Wolf Prince and Parrot Princess", 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438787632706-WRY8VD5YIS88OT170O2R/White+RugFIXED.jpg "The Wolf Prince and Parrot Princess", 2004 Review: Hall, Emily. “The Artist, the Princess, the Wolf” The Stranger (Washington), April 22, 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438787678876-9QSZHS2IWU5IK3XRIPPD/Wolf+Prince+Mouth+detail.jpg "The Wolf Prince and Parrot Princess", 2004 http://mandygreer.org/our-patient-days-allotted-span daily 0.75 2015-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282930374-EPGU6PSUMQ4CD7B7HFQO/HH_sulfur_kelp_threshold.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 - Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span” show at NEPO House as part of the Little Treats Series. December 2012 Part of The Solstenen Project: project blog Conflating the private and public — traveling to places unknown, but working as a unit — the Mandy Greer-Paul Margolis clan of multi-generational artists set out to engage with the natural environment of Iceland in an intimate and hermetic approach. Through fiber and film, play-acting, intuitive performance, obsessive accumulation of found natural and man-made artifacts, many of the artistic results explore and tear open the archetypes that each family member inhabits. Through play and repetition, the roles each member played became refracted, as each sometimes embraced, sometimes rejected what seemed inexorably inevitable. The family culture became medium, and that microcosm was expressed in the macrocosm of the geologic, a move that transcends the heartbreak of the day-to-day. In this way, the emotional force of the child became the slow but constant pressure of a glacier, both a monumentally creative and destructive force. The maternal instinct both emerges and retreats from isolation, like squeezing water from a stone and oppositionally, an endless gorgeous torrent of a glacial swollen river. The distant but shelter-building father figure moves earth and fire in an autonomic process of both steadfast strength and hapless misadventure. Greer writes, “By locating our bodies at the center of this work about familial bonds, we are attempting to confront, repair and heal rifts in our lives that have both made our artistic life together possible and also strained it to near-breaking. In breathtaking geographic isolation, an honesty emerges about the possibilities and failures of blending our roles as artists, parents and partners. This presentation of photographs, installation sculpture, video, and performance artifacts is but one outcome of Mandy Greer’s ‘Solstenen Project’, a series of residencies over the course of a year exploring themes of weight and physical burden as external symbols of internal self-transformation — identity metamorphosing into the environmental — including 5 weeks in Iceland in the fall of 2012. ‘Solstenen Project’ residencies were sponsored in part by grants from 4 Culture, Artist Trust and the Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282930374-EPGU6PSUMQ4CD7B7HFQO/HH_sulfur_kelp_threshold.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 - Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span” show at NEPO House as part of the Little Treats Series. December 2012 Part of The Solstenen Project: project blog Conflating the private and public — traveling to places unknown, but working as a unit — the Mandy Greer-Paul Margolis clan of multi-generational artists set out to engage with the natural environment of Iceland in an intimate and hermetic approach. Through fiber and film, play-acting, intuitive performance, obsessive accumulation of found natural and man-made artifacts, many of the artistic results explore and tear open the archetypes that each family member inhabits. Through play and repetition, the roles each member played became refracted, as each sometimes embraced, sometimes rejected what seemed inexorably inevitable. The family culture became medium, and that microcosm was expressed in the macrocosm of the geologic, a move that transcends the heartbreak of the day-to-day. In this way, the emotional force of the child became the slow but constant pressure of a glacier, both a monumentally creative and destructive force. The maternal instinct both emerges and retreats from isolation, like squeezing water from a stone and oppositionally, an endless gorgeous torrent of a glacial swollen river. The distant but shelter-building father figure moves earth and fire in an autonomic process of both steadfast strength and hapless misadventure. Greer writes, “By locating our bodies at the center of this work about familial bonds, we are attempting to confront, repair and heal rifts in our lives that have both made our artistic life together possible and also strained it to near-breaking. In breathtaking geographic isolation, an honesty emerges about the possibilities and failures of blending our roles as artists, parents and partners. This presentation of photographs, installation sculpture, video, and performance artifacts is but one outcome of Mandy Greer’s ‘Solstenen Project’, a series of residencies over the course of a year exploring themes of weight and physical burden as external symbols of internal self-transformation — identity metamorphosing into the environmental — including 5 weeks in Iceland in the fall of 2012. ‘Solstenen Project’ residencies were sponsored in part by grants from 4 Culture, Artist Trust and the Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282514604-HAXM6VAJJI8WT02UULIS/3.+NEPO_glacier_GREER_2.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282891014-SGSMTR9T9VMP9JQM7PVP/5MB_glacier_boy.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282504006-T9KVWLQYX8P8VSQHVQXL/1.NEPO_glacier_GREER_1.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 - The Little Treats Series at Nepo House Little Treats is about finding new options for sharing and experiencing art, more approachable, less hierarchal, as “a series of exhibitions, performances and screenings at NEPO House. Our goal is to provide a platform for local artists to show new work and an opportunity for the audience to experience artwork in an intimate setting of a home. Ultimately Little Treats is about hospitality, our encounters with art and with each other. In order to avoid moving too much furniture the shows take place only and entirely in our entry room.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282514206-HHRMBVOL1TM8C2WFEIB7/4.NEPO_glacier_GREER_3.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282516374-T47HYIKD74286AN7VNZ9/5.NEPO_install-detail.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282519598-U2WGV34Z007FO1Z1EUS7/6.+glacier+detail%3Arocks.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282532685-RU3OOC7Z5RC7ZEJ5Y82Q/9.NEPO_glacier_GREER_detail-8.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282553503-HRMTCNH8J08KJVPJACFO/15blueberryskull_wallpaper.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 As I was conceiving this project in early 2011, trying to coax something concise from the jumble of ideas, I was reading my son my favorite book from my childhood, The Fairy Caravan by Beatrix Potter. This one scene struck me in the gullet, a powerful monolog spoken by a Herdwick ewe named Belle Lingcropper, about the strength and tenacity of the sheep, as well as the transitory nature of our time here. She says ” What though the hailstorms sweep the fell in winter–through tempest, frost, or heat–we live our patient day’s allotted span.” Both the wisp of legacy and transience, from the mouth of sheep (but of course Miss Potter really). For awhile I have been fixated and inspired how Beatrix Potter managed to craft a life for herself as a woman writer of her time, as well a attain a certain independence and ultimately to use her own earned money to become a major conservationist of land, of a way of life, and the Herdwick sheep breed. She used her patient day’s allotted span well, and I aim to do the same, somehow.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282525014-1SB91XALPDNG4WC9D4BK/10.NEPO_glacier_GREER_detail-8.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282532889-VHA7N84JCIRY22AZ4DYG/11.Little_glacier_GREER.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 Anyhow, aside from my admiration for her ability to make a living as an artist, jumping over hurdles, I’m sure, I have never had to deal with — her ewe’s speech seemed to draw me to a place in my mind, not Britian, but to a fantasy of Iceland where things would play out, questions would be met with answers on the wind and stone, if only for a brief time.   But that brief time was wedged in the legacy of the maker, the creator, the individual who has crafted their life’s work from the the air, the land, the water and all that comes with it. My collaborators –my son, my husband — we went on that part of our journey together, a different but interrelated meaning for all of us. Something lasting for all of us, but the geologic text written on the small island of Iceland loomed in my mind as a different time table than our own brief human span. And Potter’s imagining of the mind of her dear Herdwicks seemed to speak of a pride of one’s place in a long span of time, not just what we experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282545125-EWZ2NSAK2ODWDIQX7T7R/12.Stone_Mother_GREER.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282545701-5NNHJ5PBEB8FU29ABHO7/13.+grey-rust+vanitas_GREER.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282553856-0Z8NUTGF176T8RKD7RGL/14.+cave_father_pattern_GREER.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282565849-FA0CK8AGW3825BPJPUV8/16.NEPO-Install-costume+detail.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282565504-IOCDYUNED8FAPBM8YEY6/17.+NEPO-Install-costume.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282568429-92V1RX9ELD66HBR516PX/18.+torent_GREER.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282582417-PIDVZ3EWAK8AMFY3F5UX/19snow_sleep_GREER.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 Here’s the entirety of little Belle the ewe’s speech. I was startled by the tenderness I felt for the Icelandic sheep we would encounter, their soft eyes and the intense soft warmness they seemed to radiate in the harsh rocky landscape. I always imagined them saying this… "Cool is the air above the craggy summit. Clear is the water of the mountain keld. Green grows the grass in droughty days beneath the brackens! What though the hailstorms sweep the fell in winter–through tempest, frost, or heat–we live our patient day’s allotted span. Wild and free as when the stone-men told our puzzled early numbers; untamed as when the Norsemen named our grassings in their stride. Our little feet had ridged the slopes before the passing Romans. On through the fleeting centuries, when fresh blood came from Iceland, Spain, or Scotland–stubborn, unchanged, UNBEATEN–we have held the stony waste." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282580660-AG8SMHXISQG2K10F6932/20cobalt+beacon_GREER.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282584084-9RR84CMRND5PAMJESDV8/21.paulcliff%3Abottomfabric.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282599934-665N7HS5JMHETZGMDLCN/22.birchtale_GREER.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282587700-A9QGL5GUU67DYY3VSUY4/22.NEPO-Install_0bject_wallpaper.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282599038-PH1332W5COLUQQT6UJ72/23.+Paul_wallpaper_GREER.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282608629-5MT8QD5OOSUSUZV7S2V3/24.NEPO-Install_0bject_wallpaper_detail2.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282619078-RR5QKP16140TWBNT4HQK/25.+pink_wire_wallpaper_GREER.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282613269-41X637F9AVAY4IASNVZM/26.+NEPO-Install_0bject_wallpaper_detail.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282723964-W7U6ZC8IYU9G7R64NKQ0/5MB_glacial-windwitch-portal.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1438282807055-JA0FIAG6Y3CC11AO3TE1/5MB_seaweed_lava_columns.jpg “Our Patient Day’s Allotted Span”, 2012 http://mandygreer.org/fallow-collective daily 0.75 2018-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1458703736750-JAM9GDS2400BRWNUHXCN/Stone_Mother_2012.jpg Fallow Collective http://mandygreer.org/fallow-collective/2018/9/18/timothy-white-eagle-durational-ritual-at-downtown-park-bellevue-sept-18-5-8pm monthly 0.5 2018-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1537296301335-YLZNIYC9OKNMXJ47EWNJ/static1.squarespace.com.jpg Fallow Collective - 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working on it…” but in truth, I’m not all that excited by just throwing more skills at people. In fact, there was a little voice rapping on my skull that knew I’d be totally bored by that, and if I’m bored, I’m not bringing the full power of my artist energy ( that jittery lava flower garden in my core) - which is the gift that I am here on this planet to share. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1623621915730-RGRW5ZERDIKWH9VMIKQV/rockland+weaving+retreat.jpg The Secret Society of Weird Weavers Summer Seminar - My immersive weaving retreats that happened before Covid, gave me a glimpse of what I was after - how much learning can be energized by the spirit of the group - the esprit de corps (also my favorite shorts when I was 12). The camaraderie energy, spurring on creativity and support that flowed among participants, was just as useful as more skillzz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1623653298882-EUQ942B6P7MDQ6A5FLPT/brite+stripes_edited-1.jpg The Secret Society of Weird Weavers Summer Seminar - The only pre-req is that you have taken my 5 hour basic weaving workshop. Or some frame loom weaving course that is comparable - just check in with me to see what works. Don’t worry if you last took my workshop 5 years ago! Our first meeting will get everyone up to speed. This cohort is for people who don’t just want to dabble anymore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1623622413026-8NRQZSOJNPY0FIUUKSLM/Birthday+portrait_edited-1.jpg The Secret Society of Weird Weavers Summer Seminar - Why ‘secret society’? Well, I’m being a little cheeky people... but also. Experimenting, playing around, mucking things up to loosen things up, reveling in mistakes, transgressing our own self-imposed conceptions.....it’s hard for a lot of people (all of us) when we feel on display or pressure to perform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1623623838910-6ZSY40D7Q7WRV1OBTLFR/peach+be+a+body+room.jpg The Secret Society of Weird Weavers Summer Seminar - If you take the Pay-in-Full option, you’ll be getting all this for about $20 an hour - So think about all the other things you pay way more for by the hour. You pay WAY more for a haircut, a massage, your accountant…. This is an investment in powering up your sense of adventure, agency, self-knowledge, skillz and connection to others through weaving! ( it’s so worth it!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1623649120155-V6CJCHXW21Z5QFYCXXSA/Mandy_Greer_Studio_1.jpg The Secret Society of Weird Weavers Summer Seminar - What are the dates? Our dates will be SAT July 10th, SUN July 25th, SUN Aug 8th and 22nd, and SUN Sept. 12th and 19th. I’m looking for folks who can commit to the whole dang thing. But I’m flexible for folks to apply who know they’ll need to miss one date - please just fill that out in the application. We’ll meet from 10:45am - 4:15pm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1623649407047-8QCSWEHYBOLW2EOQ4QFZ/IMG_0582.JPG The Secret Society of Weird Weavers Summer Seminar - What does TSSoWW Summer Cohort cost? Each 5.5 hour Workshop session is $125. You’ll pay monthly, with invoices due one week before the first class each month. If you pay-in-full now, you get a $90 discount, meaning you are paying me $20 an hour for studio time! Once you’ve applied, you’ll be sent a payment link for a $125 non-refundable deposit, which will be applied to your first month. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1623634289225-MAH8Q1VSLT8TAN5KAG2Y/IMG_0652.jpg The Secret Society of Weird Weavers Summer Seminar - Applications are now open and I’ll be reviewing them as they come in until June 23rd, or the spots sell out. I’ll then send out payment links to folks who have applied, to reserve your spot with a deposit. Spots will fill first-come by those who put down their deposit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1623635033242-73I6YU2XXK3EAAHUR92K/125438618_10157565421151587_2848540035963989234_n.jpg The Secret Society of Weird Weavers Summer Seminar - What tools do you need? You’ll need your own loom kit that is something at least 18” in one direction - larger than a beginner loom - but can be transported back and forth to my studio. I suggest these looms that come with a single warping heddle, but I’m open to what works for you. Lost Pond Looms or Roving Textiles Looms. Along with your loom, you’ll need about an 8-12 inch wood weaving needle (which you can make out of a chopstick), a weaving sword that fits your loom (which you can make from a Lowes ruler), a shuttle that at least fits half your loom, a weaving comb (or a metal fork from your kitchen) and a two inch metal tapestry needle. Most of your tools you can make yourself or you can treat yourself to nice too1s, too. It all works! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1623647164082-P3IBP3BX8ENLCL4SPIZU/IMG_3495.jpg The Secret Society of Weird Weavers Summer Seminar - Your Yarn Stash needs: You’ll have access to alllll my materials while you work at my studio, but you won’t be taking that home to finish up your weavings and working on your challenges. You’ll need your own yarn stash, including at least one spool of warp thread. Your stash can be as concise or as expansive as you desire. And it should be in colors and textures that are meaningful to you. I’m not going to micromanage this - buy a variety of textures and kinds of yarn, and hunt down cheap ones at the thrift store. Gather lots of reclaimed materials. Make your own t-shirt yarn! A full list of resources will go out to folks once they’ve registered … https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1623647273529-IK8984ZKEMHM2Q7MSUHQ/I+will+do+this+with+you+expanded.jpg The Secret Society of Weird Weavers Summer Seminar - Weaving has truly altered my life. It makes me engage with life in ways I wouldn’t without it. Its call has led me on paths to friendships, distant lands, to my ancestors, to being more grounded in my relationship to the Earth. Weaving is this powerful vitality force that entered my life as a child when I had a magical encounter with looms hidden away, that seemed to speak to me as if I already knew how to use them. Woven cloth is a living metaphor for how chaos can be plied to our will to keep us alive — think about human life before it was invented, and the brilliant minds who saw the potential in threads peeled from bark or fibers on animals you kept around instead of killing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1623648760385-ET4FPZAL4WU6YRCR6XLT/amazononian+quilt.jpg The Secret Society of Weird Weavers Summer Seminar - I am both drawn to the history and connection with the ancient lineage, but also that weaving is something alive and must contain alive-ness and be renewed! As with almost everything, I’m not so much concerned with doing it ‘right’ with proper technique, but doing it with spirit and living presence. That IS something that I want to gift to others - that you don’t have to ‘do it right’, or follow anyone else’s rules, but you do have to let alive-ness in - so that what you make then passes that on to others! To get there, sometimes requires working out that part of your intuition with a kind of regime that ‘opens’ you to the unexpected. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/540a3c67e4b0faec24c64492/1623688813023-J33IDIL0OOYZB45P004T/IMG_0589.JPG The Secret Society of Weird Weavers Summer Seminar - Get in touch if you have any questions -