- L
"Art is my gift- Life is my masterpiece and consciousness is my medium."
Temple of The Red Angel:
A little sanctuary, the same color as the desert dust, sits deep in the expanse of Burning Man’s outskirts- the desert playa. You may not see it until your eyes catch the glimmering of prismatic light flashing from crystal mobiles in the archways, shooting rainbows this way and that. Or, at night you might chance upon it, drawn out of the cold, dark night by the warm glow of lanterns. A lace-like lattice of shadow and light extends itself to you along the desert floor and seems to create a path beckoning you forward. As you approach this tiny temple, rich aromas of incense and flowers float on the desert breeze. There is a wooden sign inviting you to step into the mythic realm- it is an invitation to magic, healing, and the granting of wishes. You come upon the entry way and see that inside sits a being, one of three sister “personas” that visits this house of holy Grace. She is waiting for you.
You find her dressed in resplendent robes of silk and velvet, donning an ornate crown. Her features are striking, yet hard to make out, her face is obscured by mask, veil, or jewels. She invites you to join her for tea or chocolate, and you may decide to ask her for guidance as she offers you a blessing and cleansing ceremony, healing, frequency adjustments of sound, anointing with oils, electric prayer, lessons in magik and spell casting, a wish ceremony, and may even bestow you with oracular insight or a talisman. She is priestess, childlike and ancient- a channel for that which has yet been unnamed. As you depart you must leave something behind…
Process:
This is my opportunity to giving myself over to my art. For most of the week I will step away from the surface layers of who I am. I will be camping on my own, away from people I know, people saying my name, holding me to who they know me to be. I will become nameless. Each day I will make myself available to take on one of three “personas”. I will step into the expression of these beings through full costume, headdresses, and masking my face. With my portable temple, I will take my magical tools and apothecary loaded into my wagon, and ride out into the desert playa to find the moment’s location for my offering.
This is will be my artistic shamanic journey. I am curious to see what wants to come through me. What happens for me when I step away from my default identity and make myself available to channel a mythic archetype each day? This is my opportunity to see what my spiritual and artistic service is when I am not relating to my identity as “professional”. What awaits me is the next expression of how I know myself as a healer and performer by approaching healing work and spiritual guidance by means of embodied ceremonial performance.What doors of deep awareness will I open for myself in this exploration? It is required that I ask and then get out of the way.
The Three Personas:
Sona, “sound", the sound coming from a mask is the persona. The mask of costume allows the expression of archetypes to transcend entertainment and return to the origin of theater - sacred rites.
What would it be like if you could meet directly with a mythical archetype?
If you are lucky enough to chance upon this temple as it disappears and reappears throughout this ephemeral city, you may meet more than one of these three sister personas, each one distinct with her own gifts and challenges.
White: Heaven
She is the qualities of space, vibration, wind, expansion, void.
Her requirement is Prayer.
You find her seated in her majesty, a crown of white butterflies dance in and out of white leaves that flutter in a halo sparkling with light. Her white silk robes billow in the wind, she is nearly formless- seeming as part of the clear white sunlight and the open sky. Her eyes shine out from behind a veil of clear faceted jewels, her voice is gentle even when her messages are not.
Fierce like the crack of thunder she breaks space and time to generate profound expansiveness where all things are possible and therein exists INFINITE mercy. She is an expression of Angelic frequency. She exalts the bringers of peace on Earth.
Tools: chimes, bells, breath, abrahadabra
Flora: Ylang ylang, Peppermint, Rose
Smoke: Sandalwood
Guiding frequency: Magnificence
Pink: Lusciousness
She is the quality of sublime vibrance and nectar.
Her requirement is dissolution and sacrifice.
She reclines, seeming as if she is swimming in her silk robes. Skin the color of milk, a flush in her cheeks, the unapologetic curves of her body peaking out from rose and coral velvet. Hummingbirds sipping nectar from pink blossoms that dance in her wild mane of black waves. Rays of light shine in a bright halo from the crown of her head. She drips in gold jewelry and smells of the most succulent roses in their fullest bloom. She offers you elixirs of timeless radiance, awakened vitality, and magnetism.
She asks what part of yourself must you dissolve in order to surrender to supreme bliss? She exposes your limitations and invites you to surrender into merging with the divine. She coaxes you to expand your capacity for pleasure. She asks, “how good will you allow life to get?” With scintillating laughter she dares you to be bold enough to ask for what you truly want from life, not just what you think you can get. She demands the dissolution of self-limitation- what would you be willing to sacrifice and surrender in service of allowing your most exalted Self-expression?
Tools: Amrita, rope, pink feather fans
Flora: Rose, Jasmine, Yohimbe, Damiana, Santa Maria
Smoke: Frankincense, sweet incense
Guiding Frequency: Resplendence, Ekstasis
Black: Unseen/Umbra
Her quality is the blackness of the Eclipse, dark night of the soul, scorched earth, secrets, inner ceremony.
Her requirement is inner wilderness and light born of the deepest darkness.
She crouches in her heavy black robes- black fur, black wings, black skin, only her strange white face and hands with fingers tipped in gold, are clearly visible. In her black hair rises a crown of crows’ wings and charred, leafless branches. She smells of bitter herbs and moss. She is terrifying and gentle all at once.
She asks what parts of ourselves have we been afraid to know? She is transformation which sprouts from the deepest seeds. She is supreme darkness as the birth point for light.
Tools: Rattle, crow fans, crow medicine - Jackdaw, Magpie, and Raven
Flora: Vetiver
Smoke: Myrrh, Palo santo
Initiation and Synthesis:
Healer, Artist, Clown, Sensualist, Teacher
While this work is drawn from crafts that I have been developing over the course of time, this amalgamation is something I have never done before. I feel both excited and completely at home in this project. My purpose in life is to create and be in service to others through my creative capacity - consciousness, the art of healing, and imagination are my mediums.
This is an initiation. I would like to see this experience recreated many times over, each time growing and evolving. One way I would like to see this expressed is in collaboration with other artists as a fully functional temple as well as including dance, theater, and music. It feels like the beginning, yet I am walking down a path where the course is still unseen. I'm excited to see how will this inform my work going forward. This level of depth of exploration offers me a chance for bringing all my work to the next level.
How You Can Support This Vision:
I am so lit up about this project! Driven, obsessed, waking up at all hours of the night to record insights, hand crafting my costumes for long hours stretching from dawn till nearly dawn again. I’m already in the experience. It’s been clear from the beginning that it’s not just what happens on the playa, it’s the way it is created, dreamt, loved, played with from the get-go. In order to bring forth as much as I can, I need your help. I am asking for financial donations (and gifts!) from the people in my life to propel this beautiful vision of creativity, transformation, and profound service into reality.
I will be offering this gift for free to goodness knows how many people, for how many hours, and it also takes nearly countless hours to create. I am asking for your support.
No amount is too small and no amount too large. With the minimum amount of resources I just show up and generate the whole experience from my being. However, the more money and resources I have the more I can make it fabulously over the top EXTRA DELUXE-
-more extravagant costumes
-better lighting/seating and other basic needs
-serving of elixirs and teas
-a multitude of of other sensual delights e.g. essential oils, chocolates, gifts, etc.
Money would also:
-ease the financial weight from all the money that I have already been pouring into this project.
-AND could enable me to have a greater capacity to capture some of this work on film.
- perhaps most importantly, allow me to take less appointments over the next 7 days and allow me more TIME to create.
Gifts are also AWESOME!!!
My wish list includes:
GoPro camera
Meditation pillows
Single propane burner
Small camping stove size tank of propane
Large high-quality Thermos
A hand drum
A rattle
Tibetan bells
Special treats to offer - elixirs, and other distillations
A photographer who wants to help capture this!
Are you going to be on the playa? Take care of me! I will gladly accept some nurturing from you. Healthy food, massages, hugs, ice, etc.
I’m open to suggestions!
$1-$20
Your energetic vote for this project. It’s a way to let me know that you are stoked on what I’m up to.
$21 -$100
An awesome boost to get me where I’m going. More costuming supplies to add to the general epicness of my looks, gas money/basic resources, all the little needs and details that just add up.
$101 - $1000
You see me, you get the vision, you have a clear and potent belief in the transformational power of art and the EPIC potential of our spirits when they are ignited. At this level you are adding fuel to the flames. This would go towards documenting the project (photography, editing, etc.) and being able to take the priceless TIME each day to focus on this.
Afterwards:
I will host a small reception, online or in-person, to share the results and engage in a decompression conversation to help me put the pieces together, share pictures and the stories of all the weird,, exquisite, hilarious, challenging, and profound moments.
I hope you will come along for the ride!
A website to host a blog and photos is coming soon!
Temple of The Red Angel:
A little sanctuary, the same color as the desert dust, sits deep in the expanse of Burning Man’s outskirts- the desert playa. You may not see it until your eyes catch the glimmering of prismatic light flashing from crystal mobiles in the archways, shooting rainbows this way and that. Or, at night you might chance upon it, drawn out of the cold, dark night by the warm glow of lanterns. A lace-like lattice of shadow and light extends itself to you along the desert floor and seems to create a path beckoning you forward. As you approach this tiny temple, rich aromas of incense and flowers float on the desert breeze. There is a wooden sign inviting you to step into the mythic realm- it is an invitation to magic, healing, and the granting of wishes. You come upon the entry way and see that inside sits a being, one of three sister “personas” that visits this house of holy Grace. She is waiting for you.
You find her dressed in resplendent robes of silk and velvet, donning an ornate crown. Her features are striking, yet hard to make out, her face is obscured by mask, veil, or jewels. She invites you to join her for tea or chocolate, and you may decide to ask her for guidance as she offers you a blessing and cleansing ceremony, healing, frequency adjustments of sound, anointing with oils, electric prayer, lessons in magik and spell casting, a wish ceremony, and may even bestow you with oracular insight or a talisman. She is priestess, childlike and ancient- a channel for that which has yet been unnamed. As you depart you must leave something behind…
Process:
This is my opportunity to giving myself over to my art. For most of the week I will step away from the surface layers of who I am. I will be camping on my own, away from people I know, people saying my name, holding me to who they know me to be. I will become nameless. Each day I will make myself available to take on one of three “personas”. I will step into the expression of these beings through full costume, headdresses, and masking my face. With my portable temple, I will take my magical tools and apothecary loaded into my wagon, and ride out into the desert playa to find the moment’s location for my offering.
This is will be my artistic shamanic journey. I am curious to see what wants to come through me. What happens for me when I step away from my default identity and make myself available to channel a mythic archetype each day? This is my opportunity to see what my spiritual and artistic service is when I am not relating to my identity as “professional”. What awaits me is the next expression of how I know myself as a healer and performer by approaching healing work and spiritual guidance by means of embodied ceremonial performance.What doors of deep awareness will I open for myself in this exploration? It is required that I ask and then get out of the way.
The Three Personas:
Sona, “sound", the sound coming from a mask is the persona. The mask of costume allows the expression of archetypes to transcend entertainment and return to the origin of theater - sacred rites.
What would it be like if you could meet directly with a mythical archetype?
If you are lucky enough to chance upon this temple as it disappears and reappears throughout this ephemeral city, you may meet more than one of these three sister personas, each one distinct with her own gifts and challenges.
White: Heaven
She is the qualities of space, vibration, wind, expansion, void.
Her requirement is Prayer.
You find her seated in her majesty, a crown of white butterflies dance in and out of white leaves that flutter in a halo sparkling with light. Her white silk robes billow in the wind, she is nearly formless- seeming as part of the clear white sunlight and the open sky. Her eyes shine out from behind a veil of clear faceted jewels, her voice is gentle even when her messages are not.
Fierce like the crack of thunder she breaks space and time to generate profound expansiveness where all things are possible and therein exists INFINITE mercy. She is an expression of Angelic frequency. She exalts the bringers of peace on Earth.
Tools: chimes, bells, breath, abrahadabra
Flora: Ylang ylang, Peppermint, Rose
Smoke: Sandalwood
Guiding frequency: Magnificence
Pink: Lusciousness
She is the quality of sublime vibrance and nectar.
Her requirement is dissolution and sacrifice.
She reclines, seeming as if she is swimming in her silk robes. Skin the color of milk, a flush in her cheeks, the unapologetic curves of her body peaking out from rose and coral velvet. Hummingbirds sipping nectar from pink blossoms that dance in her wild mane of black waves. Rays of light shine in a bright halo from the crown of her head. She drips in gold jewelry and smells of the most succulent roses in their fullest bloom. She offers you elixirs of timeless radiance, awakened vitality, and magnetism.
She asks what part of yourself must you dissolve in order to surrender to supreme bliss? She exposes your limitations and invites you to surrender into merging with the divine. She coaxes you to expand your capacity for pleasure. She asks, “how good will you allow life to get?” With scintillating laughter she dares you to be bold enough to ask for what you truly want from life, not just what you think you can get. She demands the dissolution of self-limitation- what would you be willing to sacrifice and surrender in service of allowing your most exalted Self-expression?
Tools: Amrita, rope, pink feather fans
Flora: Rose, Jasmine, Yohimbe, Damiana, Santa Maria
Smoke: Frankincense, sweet incense
Guiding Frequency: Resplendence, Ekstasis
Black: Unseen/Umbra
Her quality is the blackness of the Eclipse, dark night of the soul, scorched earth, secrets, inner ceremony.
Her requirement is inner wilderness and light born of the deepest darkness.
She crouches in her heavy black robes- black fur, black wings, black skin, only her strange white face and hands with fingers tipped in gold, are clearly visible. In her black hair rises a crown of crows’ wings and charred, leafless branches. She smells of bitter herbs and moss. She is terrifying and gentle all at once.
She asks what parts of ourselves have we been afraid to know? She is transformation which sprouts from the deepest seeds. She is supreme darkness as the birth point for light.
Tools: Rattle, crow fans, crow medicine - Jackdaw, Magpie, and Raven
Flora: Vetiver
Smoke: Myrrh, Palo santo
Initiation and Synthesis:
Healer, Artist, Clown, Sensualist, Teacher
While this work is drawn from crafts that I have been developing over the course of time, this amalgamation is something I have never done before. I feel both excited and completely at home in this project. My purpose in life is to create and be in service to others through my creative capacity - consciousness, the art of healing, and imagination are my mediums.
This is an initiation. I would like to see this experience recreated many times over, each time growing and evolving. One way I would like to see this expressed is in collaboration with other artists as a fully functional temple as well as including dance, theater, and music. It feels like the beginning, yet I am walking down a path where the course is still unseen. I'm excited to see how will this inform my work going forward. This level of depth of exploration offers me a chance for bringing all my work to the next level.
How You Can Support This Vision:
I am so lit up about this project! Driven, obsessed, waking up at all hours of the night to record insights, hand crafting my costumes for long hours stretching from dawn till nearly dawn again. I’m already in the experience. It’s been clear from the beginning that it’s not just what happens on the playa, it’s the way it is created, dreamt, loved, played with from the get-go. In order to bring forth as much as I can, I need your help. I am asking for financial donations (and gifts!) from the people in my life to propel this beautiful vision of creativity, transformation, and profound service into reality.
I will be offering this gift for free to goodness knows how many people, for how many hours, and it also takes nearly countless hours to create. I am asking for your support.
No amount is too small and no amount too large. With the minimum amount of resources I just show up and generate the whole experience from my being. However, the more money and resources I have the more I can make it fabulously over the top EXTRA DELUXE-
-more extravagant costumes
-better lighting/seating and other basic needs
-serving of elixirs and teas
-a multitude of of other sensual delights e.g. essential oils, chocolates, gifts, etc.
Money would also:
-ease the financial weight from all the money that I have already been pouring into this project.
-AND could enable me to have a greater capacity to capture some of this work on film.
- perhaps most importantly, allow me to take less appointments over the next 7 days and allow me more TIME to create.
Gifts are also AWESOME!!!
My wish list includes:
GoPro camera
Meditation pillows
Single propane burner
Small camping stove size tank of propane
Large high-quality Thermos
A hand drum
A rattle
Tibetan bells
Special treats to offer - elixirs, and other distillations
A photographer who wants to help capture this!
Are you going to be on the playa? Take care of me! I will gladly accept some nurturing from you. Healthy food, massages, hugs, ice, etc.
I’m open to suggestions!
$1-$20
Your energetic vote for this project. It’s a way to let me know that you are stoked on what I’m up to.
$21 -$100
An awesome boost to get me where I’m going. More costuming supplies to add to the general epicness of my looks, gas money/basic resources, all the little needs and details that just add up.
$101 - $1000
You see me, you get the vision, you have a clear and potent belief in the transformational power of art and the EPIC potential of our spirits when they are ignited. At this level you are adding fuel to the flames. This would go towards documenting the project (photography, editing, etc.) and being able to take the priceless TIME each day to focus on this.
Afterwards:
I will host a small reception, online or in-person, to share the results and engage in a decompression conversation to help me put the pieces together, share pictures and the stories of all the weird,, exquisite, hilarious, challenging, and profound moments.
I hope you will come along for the ride!
A website to host a blog and photos is coming soon!