September 27th, 2020
Goals met!
When I was awarded this Flex Summer 2020 Residency at the Hyde Park Art Center, December 2019, I was excited and challenged.
The honor was overwhelming. Then came the flood of ideas.....potential and channeling. I determined my focus. To complete four textile based panels. Each representing one of the Expressive Arts. Performing. Music, Literature, and Visual.
Each panel becoming a re-contexualization of the First Nation's People's iconic character, the Kokopelli. These completed textile works will find their way to extended the growing body of work, "Rhythmistic Quilts" that is a larger more ambitious collection of quilts that are via a collaborative, co-contribution and division of labor based process.
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Left: Onli with a Rhythmistic Quilt completed by Patrick Whalen.
Right: Patrick hanging a yet to be completed panel at the Box Factory For the Arts, in exhibition, Summer 2019, St. Joseph Michigan. Courtesy of Susan Craw and Nikki Guitier.
This process has had tangible input since 1988 from various creative practioners. It started with my re-contextualizing selected African icons in a future-primitf...Rhythmistic context in 1988. It hit a serious stop when most of them were destroyed and damaged in a devastating studio-live-space fire in 2001.
I was surprisingly inspired to return to this body of work in 2017 when I met the master quilter Patrick Whalen in Michigan City at the Quilters Apocathecary'. In Patrick I sensed his ability to feel and embrace the art then contribute to it. I learned from him.....to let it flow means to let it go. So I trun them over to him.....and await the enhnacements per his contributions. WOW! Lucky me.....and of great benefit to this body of RHythmistc works.
Patrick's studio prepped in full Rhythmistic effect:
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The goal was to be sure to to set up the space to produce these four large 50 inch by 40 inch cotton panels. As of September 26th 2020 That goal is met. Plus these are the first set of panels I have created with aspects of Patrick's vibrations flowing within the process.
I was to leave on Oct. 2nd per the original agreement. However I was granted a generous extension to this Residency until Nov. 30th 2020. Two whole additional months! WOW. Now to plan to make the best Rhythmistic use of that resource. What a great place this HPAC! Allison & Kate...you rock!.
"Kokoperfomance"
As much as we love the Arts we are a business and Onli is a professional.
Question: Did you notice that three of the Kokopellis were making a political statement?
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