Red And Wet, a Huge Exchange and Our Emergence!

Let's follow up on this month’s day of love and affection by being part of a huge greeting exchange on the upcoming International Women's Day! Through our gifting of “Red and Wet” prints, let's join in solidarity and in celebration of our collective rebirth – this is our emergence!                       

UPDATE: We’ve launched this project on Women’s Day 2018! Beautiful! A seed has been planted. Greetings are being sent throughout the year and we will culminate as a huge love greeting in 2019!

 

💌 WHAT IS RED AND WET?

To follow our day of love and affection, passion and red gestures, I am launching Red and Wet.

In friendship and solidarity, I invite us women to share with each other and hold each other up on Women’s Day 2018. That celebration is coming up on March 8th! So between Valentine’s Day and Women’s Day, I am inviting us to be part of a huge exchange, love offering, greeting! We are also celebrating our Emergence!! Red and Wet will manifest as prints that we will gift each other in solidarity and support.

The prints were painted by me in 2016 while processing my fertility and my life, particularly as a woman at a time when I was resurfacing from the hardest and also the most gift giving years of my life. Five+ years is a long time and for me it was a crazy fall. A reboot because that’s what I had been asking for and it came in a way that made it’s way noticed for sure! How else would one take the plunge and swim in mad waters onto a brand new shore!? I was dying and yet I was being born. I think my story is the same or similar to so many of each of our stories collectively. It is also the story we women, as a group, are experiencing together at this moment in time.

We are emerging anew with a force that is uniquely ours and with the brilliance that we have always possessed! It’s happening! We are on it!

A couple of days ago, I stumbled upon a story that happened recently at an airport. You might have seen it too! A group of woman who didn’t know each other intuitively and fluidly created a protective and calming circle for a young pregnant mother and her out of control toddler during his massive tantrum and her own breakdown. One of the women, Beth, shared about their silent act on facebook concluding: “It was so gorgeous, there was no discussion and no one knew anyone else, but we were able to calm them both down, and she got her child on the plane. Only women approached. After they went through the door we all went back to our separate seats and didn’t talk about it… we were strangers, gathering to solve something. It occurred to me that a circle of women, with a mission, can save the world. I will never forget that moment.”

This wisdom and intuitive knowledge is something that I have experienced in several occasions with groups of women in my various communities. Yes! how wonderful and powerful we would be in a huge group of solidarity!

Time to celebrate! So on our day this is what I propose! I’m putting these Red and Wet images out there, first time out in the light, with an idea of a collective rebirth for all of us together during this transformative moment. It has been a long process for us and right now we are at the cusp of emerging anew and yet emerging in our own unique ever present qualities which have in the past so often been overlooked, underused!

Through our exchange in solidarity, we will create a much larger gift of connection, a quilt of images – our collective strength, bond, wisdom! Our emergence!!

 

💌 WHY RED? WHY WET?

Red for love, urgency, warmth, fire, passion!  Red for fertile, blood, womb, life! Red for anger, action, drive! Red for STOP, Red for Fire! Red for flow, sacred, courage! Red for warning! Red for Unity!!

Wet because Red is fresh and alive! being born!

* feel free to add to this list of red and wet words (message me here) and/or let’s keep some of them in our collective imagination.

The drawings/paintings are red and were done with water colors.

 

💌 RED AND WET PRINTS

In postcard size and sets of four, they come printed on high quality matte paper. In an envelope or as postcards, send them to your friends, loved ones, healing ones, ones you admire, ones you want to know, ones you respect, ones you want to lift up, touch, reach out to. Send them! Receive them! Frame them!! Send them! Receive them! Frame them! Let the cycle of connection flow as it will flow…

I invite us to take photos, videos, selfies with the Red and Wet images before sending them and upon receiving them. Let’s tag them on social media as    # R e d A n d W e t O u r E m e r g e n c e   and  # W o m e n s D a y . Let’s specify which city we are sharing from. And let’s caption each image with a snippet of each of our stories, inspiration or wisdom to share, or how you want or need to be supported. Red And Wet may serve as a starting point for what we each add to our collective Rite of Passage!

 

For the full selection from the Womb, Flow, Cycles and Life Series click here

 

💌 HOW TO GET RED AND WET?

> Purchase through this link. Submit $18.00 * for four prints. *tax and shipping, within continental US is included <

If you want to contribute for those who want to participate but can’t afford it, that is possible too and thank you so much for helping make this collaborative celebration even more accessible!! The link for ordering and for contributions is here. If you want to participate but can’t afford it, message me.

> Large prints available too through this link.  Submit $32 for unframed and $62 for framed *shipping extra to be calculated. <

Ladies, we are making a huge dispersed yet cohesive and unified quilt of red painting/love greeting together! As this gets big, it will not only be beautiful and all shades of beautiful hot red! you will also assist me in making BeAutism a reality! That project emerged through my motherhood. It was a gift to me from my daughter. And manifesting it, will be our gift to society! These efforts that are in my heart and in my sketchbook is also how I am personally getting back on my feet. This project is part of my own personal emergence from my recent amazing fall and reboot. Check out BeAutism! You or someone you know might just have to be a part of it.

Red and Wet! we are going to let you flow as you want to flow. If you are feeling the connection to this effort, share about it with others: those that will want to be a part of this, those you care about, those that you think might be lifted by this. Share! If the flow gets huge, I want to dedicate a percentage of the sharing to an organization that supports women. Please let me know which are your favorite organizations, local, national and international that support women (message me here).

 

Giving the love and solidarity greetings to your friends! Order your Red and Wet prints here

 

Gifting other special women in your life a large print unframed or framed! Link here

       

 

💌 QUESTIONS

What if I can’t afford the prints but want to be a part of this?

Send me a message

 

What if I can only afford one print?

It’s too costly to print just one print as I have to pay the minimum amount of paper regardless of the size of the print. I think it will be beautiful if you join forces with a friend or friends and order a set of four together.

 

Can I contribute for the ones who can’t afford this?

Yes. You may contribute any amount. Thank you! Send your contribution here.

 

Can I send more than four cards?

Yes. They are sold in sets of four and multiple sets can be purchased.

 

Is it possible for me to pay extra to help others participate and/or to contribute towards BeAutism?

When you go to check out, there are two options. Use the donate button to contribute any additional amount. Thank you!

 

I am ready to get this process flowing. Where do I go to order my prints?

Order your prints here

 

What if I am outside of continental USA. How much is the shipping of the prints to me?

If you are outside of the US, I will contact you with an additional amount as per the post office for the shipping of the prints to you. I will send the prints once I receive the shipping payment.

 

What if I can’t meet the deadline of March 8th?

No worries! This is merely a start of our celebration. We will keep this flowing, with a culmination on Women’s Day 2019. You can order you choice of prints here at anytime and join the flow of Red and Wet support and solidarity.

 

Is this about mothering? I am a women but not a mother

I am, of course hypothesizing questions that might come up. Our gathering of support is to all women who want to participate whether you are a “mother” or not. It is meant to be expansive and bring us together regardless of our particular womanhood and wherever we are in our cycles of life as a woman in transformation! As a solidarity activity it is meant to include all women as uniquely as we each are.

 

 

Let's follow up on this month’s day of love and affection by being part of a huge greeting exchange on the upcoming International Women's Day! Through our gifting of “Red and Wet” prints, let's join in solidarity and in celebration of our collective rebirth – this is our emergence!

 

💌 ABOUT ME AND OTHER GAMES OF CONNECTION

Thank you for reading through this and checking this idea out! Let’s play!! Let’s start a group of inspired women who want to celebrate our brilliance and manifest our emergence!

To learn more about me, I invite you to visit my artist statement and glimpse a little of that through WNC Women! Living Section Retrospective Of My Fertility

If you’re intrigued with what I am proposing, you might be interested in one of my blog posts that might give you more insight into my body of “play” > Game-on! Let’s play!

Other previous huge collaborations not mentioned in that blog post but that are in the spirit of what I am proposing are here:  Dispersed Memorial / PROXY_FlorenceFlag of US  Feel free to browse and explore!

 

Photo of me by Jesse Kitt Photography, one of those wise, intuitive, inspirational, collaborative and supportive women in my life!

 

 

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  • SEED

    SEED_Haiti is an environmental and humanitarian solution for providing relief housing with the adaptive reuse of surplus ISO shipping containers which in time turn into permanent homes. This solution uses the many shipping containers that are already in Haiti and the large number of shipping containers that are being sent to Haiti with relief supplies. In the coming months, there will be thousands of containers arriving to Haiti. SEED_Haiti is working on a strong incentive package to get this surplus of containers donated from the shipping industry for homes in Haiti rather than storing them or transporting them empty.

    Key elements of the SEED_Haiti Design

    Haiti’s hurricane season is approaching. The estimated 500,000+ of homeless need to be housed in stables structures quickly. The containers with their unibody construction of Cor-Ten steel, are not only hurricane and earthquake proof, they are also fire, mold, and vandalism proof. The design is able to seal back up in the case of another natural disaster protecting a family’s valuable possessions so that when they return home they are not starting from scratch again.

    The SEED design transforms a 40’ shipping container into a home for 6-10 people with a minimum amount of effort. The container is cut with readily available equipment and utilizes low impact foundation technology to lift the home off the ground for ventilation and protect from flood. It is also covered with a secondary roof to keep the home cool. It is a low cost emergency solution. Incentives should be given to shipping companies to donate their surplus containers in Port-au-Prince and arriving containers with relief supplies.

    The SEED home is equipped with 2 low cost pallet sized “pods” (water pod and energy pod) that meet the basic needs of access to drinking water, human sanitation and food preparation.

    These elements are a micro infrastructure that provides self sufficiency a key element for place that has lost all infrastructure.

    Possible questions of the SEED_Haiti Design

    Is housing people in shipping containers appropriate?

    Not only does it effectively protect the people that would otherwise be homeless or in tents, it protects them better than before. The container’s unibody structure is stronger than the homes which collapsed during the earthquake. As a dwelling type, container housing is already common as part of many countries vernacular and is being more commonly used in construction including luxury housing.

    How do you transport such heavy structures?

    The shipping container is the backbone of the global trade. Virtually every country in the world, including Haiti, has equipment for handling shipping containers. Transporting them from the port to a building site will be the same challenge for any emergency housing. In fact, other building materials and equipment will be delivered to Haiti in shipping containers.

    Isn’t such a material (steel) in the Caribbean a bad choice in terms of heat gain?

    The material will not overturn or collapse, but it will also not mold or burn. A canopy that is part of the design, provides not only shade and an additional space on the roof of the structure, but also a tunnel draft of air which insulates the roof. The emergency garden proposed for the roof also serves as insulation. The container’s simple cuts in the horizontal planes, provide natural cross ventilation.

    For more information, visit http://10to10.org/.

    Proxy Florence

    PROXY Florence was exhibited at the Beyond Media 2009 Festival, Visions in Florence, Italy from July 9th to 17th.

    PROXY Florence is a dynamic map and a collective story of Florence created through the interplay of virtual space and physical space and the interaction of 500 collaborators from 27 countries.

    The project used facebook to connect and collaborate. It used Google Panoramio’s interface to collect and organize the individual images of Florence captured, envisioned, or remembered by each of the 500 contributors from across the globe. PROXY Florence used Variable Data Printing to convert the individual images collected into 500 unique, tangible postcards that were organized spatially by their coordinate data.

    These images were mapped according to the image’s remembered or imagined location. These numerous images were returned to their origin in Florence, Italy and specifically, as a scale down version of this city, at Stazione Leopolda, the space of the exhibition. The focus of PROXY 1.0 was [43°46’22”N – 11°15’27”E] from July 9 – 17.

    The visitors of this event were invited to dismantle the exhibit by removing the postcard of their choice. By taking a postcard, mailing to a friend, the cycle is continued.

    PROXY Florence is mapping the route of the image and connecting the recipient of the postcard with the origin of the photo and its taker.

    If you took a postcard in Florence, go to www.proxyproject.org to register your postcard.

    Thanks for participating! Thanks also to our sponsors and to everyone who worked on this project!!!

    Sponsors:

    Clemson Advancement Foundation, Clemson University
    http://www.clemson.edu/caah/caf/
    Fieldoffice
    http://www.field-office.com/
    McMahan Fund for Excellence, Clemson University
    http://virtual.clemson.edu/caah/architecture/
    College of Architecture, Arts & Humanities, Clemson University
    http://www.clemson.edu/caah/
    Modern Postcard
    http://www.modernpostcard.com/
    Each of our 500 collaborators who gave a dollar with each image submitted
    http://www.proxyproject.org/

    Check out the videos and photos posted here and at the project’s website www.proxyproject.org

    bici_N

    Imagine a living map of a city that is created and recreated as the city regenerates minute by minute, a map that is drawn and redrawn by the daily activities of its inhabitants. Our proposal is to equip numerous bicycles in Barcelona’s new public transportation system Bicing with A/V (Audio/Video) and GPS (Global Positioning System) devices in order to collect the everyday qualitative and quantitative aspects of the city via the routine of its inhabitants. From these numerous individual fragments of the city, a collective story is assembled as users go about their lives to “compose a manifold story that has neither author nor spectator, shaped out of fragments of trajectories and alterations of spaces: in relation to representations, it remains daily and indefinitely other.” 1 Layer upon layer of stories build into a map constructed not by the authorities but by the everyday users of the system, from the ground up. The bicycle as an extension of the human body into the city becomes a full-scale mapping instrument, which captures both the sensual/experiential and the scientific/abstract notation of the human body into the city body and viceversa.

    As the city occupant cycles through Barcelona, Borges conceit of a map at full scale in A Universal History of Infamy is realized not in dimension but in precision. 2 Cycling as the city cycles, the inhabitants write and read their stories on the streets, alleys, parks and sidewalks of their terrain vividly and precisely as they go about their daily routines. Described and narrated through the imagery of the scenery and conversations recorded on the A/V device and grounded with the details of the data inscribed by GPS, the city is revealed as “pictorial and sensual, intellectual and mathematical” 3 via daily routines and interactions. The hybrid A/V/GPS device will be housed within the bicycle’s light enclosure on the handlebar and powered by the pedaling of the cyclist. The device will stream a live feed of data that would be archived into a searchable database in which the collected time code (A/V) and (GPS) information are synchronized, blending the realism and sensuality of experience with the detailed discovery of the physiology of the cyclist as related to the geography and place it occupies. The data will exist online as a “living map” of anonymous yet detailed data of the life of a city and as an open source document for scientists and artists to analyze and interpret. What do calories burned, and body mass mean as related to length, speed, imagery and sound? What do latitude, longitude and topography mean as related to heart rate and mood? What do we understand by density of movement, interactions, delays, detours as experiences accumulated on a place? What is revealed about the sensual and the abstract and about the intimate relationship between the city and its occupants? And how do we benefit from visualizing this intricate ecology? *

    1 de Certeau, Michel. Walking in the City. In The Practice of Everyday Life

    2 Borges, Jorge Luis. A Universal History of Infamy

    3 Nuti, Lucia. Mapping Places: Chorography and Vision in the Renaissance

    *A two-week study has already been conducted during 2008 in which five Barcelona residents volunteered to equip their respective Bicing bikes on each ride with A/V/GPS. From that the following documents were created and their potential is being explored. Next we will use this already collected data (70+ hrs of material) to figure out the logistics of the proposed “living map”.

    1/11 Dispersed Memorial Announces its Vision to Honor 9/11 Victims

    Asheville, North Carolina – Jan 11, 2011 — A project to honor the lives of 9/11 victims, Dispersed Memorial, is setting its goals for the 10th and 11th anniversaries of the tragedy. Thousands of glass plates, inscribed with written dedications to victims and an outline of the missing Twin Towers, will populate New York City in locations where the towers were once visible. The memorials will create a dispersed constellation of markers throughout the city that will connect the stories of loved ones and materialize a collective memory.

    Each glass plate outline of the Twin Towers will correspond to the memory of the city’s skyline in varying locations. At night, the markers will light up one by one as an echo to the candles that were lit for the lives of victims in the days following 9/11, and will illuminate the inscriptions of stories, letters, poems and names that honor each victim. The memorial allows each contributor to choose the location of the glass plates where they wish to honor victims.

    Dispersed Memorial was conceptualized in 2001 by Martha Skinner and Doug Hecker of fieldoffice, an interdisciplinary practice which challenges the distinctions between architecture, urbanism, and art. Their design response was related to their firm’s focus on the temporal quality of social responses to tragedy. Co-founder Martha Skinner explained, “As a former resident of New York City, I felt like I needed to be there, to be part of people coming together to deal with the situation, to heal, and to share something in common.” In anticipation of the 10th and 11th anniversaries of the event, fieldoffice has expanded the team to work with individuals ranging from urban planners, university professors, artists and architecture students, and is inviting additional collaborators.

    By collecting and installing the stories behind the lives of 9/11 victims, Dispersed Memorial explores concepts of dispersed memory as a continual presence in a city and how that memory can connect people. “There is a sacredness within the fabric of the city. It is about the memory of the Twin Towers as an orienting device, and entire lives, and the losses that affected so many people,” Skinner said.

    For more information about the project team and collaborative opportunities, visit the Dispersed Memorial website: http://www.dispersed-memorial.net/.

    For high resolution images of the project,
    Contact:
    Martha Skinner
    Co-founder of Dispersed Memorial
    864-650-8570
    skinnermartha@gmail.com
    http://www.dispersed-memorial.net/

    Proxy Florence Opens

    PROXY Florence collaborated with friends from many coordinates in the world. The volunteers and contributors represented the following 27 countries:

    Hungary, Spain, Greece, China, Iran, Israel, France, Portugal, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Germany, Romania, United States, Chile, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Colombia, Jordan, Venezuela, Canada, Serbia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

    Project team:

    Martha Skinner, Douglas Hecker, Lauren Mitchell, Charlie Bryant (sound), Joshua Kehl, Brian Miele, Brian Leounis, Sarah Moore, Suzanne Bodson, Ayaka Tanabe, Liz Corr, Clay Montgomery, Nathan Asire, Jake DeMint, Adam James, Carla Landa and Jason Butz.

    Assistance:

    Chris Wilkins, Hali Knight, Virginia Black, Sofia Avramopoulou, Benedetta Cavallini, Erica Bucciarelli, Marco Caroti, Kristian Fosholt, Laura Tedeschi, Mauricio Skinner, David De Sevi Bruzual, Eric Brockmeyer, Nathaniel Zuelzke, Olivier Ilegems, Guillaume La Belle, and Kyle Perry.

    Translators:

    Katalin Beck, Gerard Cuartero-Betriu, Anat Katsir, Mostafa Zaafari, Vassilis Kyriakopoulos, Rachel Sellers, Ayaka Tanabe, Erhmei Yuan, Matilde Cassani, Adie Hailat, Patricia Muñiz Núñez, Catalina Gomez, Mea Zatric, Speranta-Octavia Maior, Gerald Lehmacher, Youssef Boubekeur, and Gijs Beesems.

    Guest critics:

    Enrique Larrañaga, David Lee, Dan Harding, and Chuck Krekelberg.

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