NOVEMBER 10TH, 6 PM
PHOTOGRAPHER PER VOLQUARTZ
SCULPTURES, JOHN GIBBON
SCULPTURAL PAINTINGS, ARIYANA
Selenite Landscape, 2007 by Ariyana
John Gibbon and Ariyana have created two new artforms using a
beautiful crystal known as Selenite. John has taken the wonderful crystal slabs and sculpted them into
delightful luminary scultpures mounted within a metal framework. Whereas, Ariyana has used the smaller
pieces to create lovely wall paintings, incorporating the Selenite slivers, along with other mixed media
materials. Both expressions, using the Selenite mineral, beautifully grace any setting with light and
beauty.
Selenite Sculpture #1, 2007 by John Gibbon
At the bottom of this page is a summary of my research on the web of all the
properties and attributes assigned to Selenite. a formidable icon, one with far-ranging implications if
one has a metaphysical bent. However, these artistic expressions by John Gibbon and Ariyana
go far beyond these purported aspects, to a high level of grace, elegance and breathtaking wonder and
beauty.
Sandy Taylor, Curator
Oregon Coast, 2005 photographer Per Volquartz
We are very pleased to present a selection of photographs by
Landscape Photographer, Per Volquartz
has an extensive exhibit record including
a recent thirty year retrospective at the Denmark Museum
of Photography in Herning, Denmark. A limited edition book of 800 copies is in being printed
and will be available April, 2008.
Per Volquartz started his career in the visual arts
after graduating from Art Center College of Design in 1971.
At first he worked as a graphic designer and illustrator.
Soon however, he discovered large format photography,
which later proved to be his main direction as a visual artist.
In Yosemite National Park, in the summer of 1976
Per Volquartz met Ansel Adams and Morley Baer, who together
with the painter, Lorser Feitelsohn were to inspire him, forming his unique
background in creative photography.
Yosemite 1976
L to R: Bob Kolbrener, Andy Schumacher, Per Volquartz, Ansel Adams:
(During the years at Art Center in Los Angeles Per Volquartz had studied
under Lorser Feitelson, the master of modern American hard edge painting.)
This was to become a turning point in his photographic career.
During the next decade and a half he accepted a variety
of commercial assignments from many fortune 500 companies.
He became known for his unique photographic point of view,
and as a master printer.
The photographic images of Per Volquartz have appeared
in most major magazines in the United States. This includes Life Magazine,
Time and Newsweek, The New Yorker, The New York Times,
The Los Angeles Times, National Geographic and Wall Street Journal.
Articles about his work have also appeared in many publications
including American Photographer magazine, Print Magazine's Casebooks
(The Best of Annual Reports), and most recently in Fotopozytyw,
a professional photography magazine published in Poland.
He has received numerous honors for his professional work
during the past 30 years, including a fellowship from
the American Scandinavian Foundation and Award of Excellence from
the American Institute of Graphic Arts and from Print Magazine.
Selenite on the Web
white and reflective of light, with an iridescent sheen formed from its fibrous outer layers shimmer like white moonlight. Layers upon layers of clear crystal.
Satin-Spar Selenite is so unique with its pearly opalescence and fantastic optic qualities due to build-in capillary fibers that a polished face will actually project an image through to the other side. Satin-Spar Selenite is often referred to as a Light bearer.
Descriptive:
Called the Sword of Awareness.
A Bridge to Other Worlds.
A Bridge to altered states of consciousness.
Draws healing white light through the crown chakra.
A beautiful angelic connection stone.
Named from the Moon Goddess.
Storehouse of Empowerment.
Angel Crystals.
Origins of Selenite
It is thought to be named after the Roman or ancient Greek Goddess of the full moon called 'Selene'.
Crystal healing and crystal divination have a long history of being used by shamans, healers, wise women and priestesses for contacting spiritual helpers and guardians. From as far back as Atlantis and Lemurian times, crystals have played an important role in maintaining spiritual connection to source. Kings and queens, monarchs, priests, would have them set in crowns, or in rings.
It is a stone that has been used and carved since ancient times, and was found in the tomb of Tutankhamen.
Attributions to Selenite:
It has a very high vibration and brings light and healing to every cell of the body
lifts one's spirits.
Contains all sacred knowledge.
Calms and clears troubled minds.
Useful in personal meditation and visualization.
Clarifies one's innermost thoughts.
Expands one's mental powers.
Helpful in past-life recall and access to probable future lives.
Cuts through assumptions.
Promotes re-connection between conscious self and the inner mystic.
Allows direction of energy into the body.
Removes blockages.
Clears negative energies.
Cleans any energies.
Facilitates access to your subconscious.
Clarity of mental processes.
Ability to connect and balance spiritual and physical bodies.
Provide clear mental focus, expand sensitivity, field of awareness.
Provides flexibility and resolve.
Assists in facilitating material acquisitions.
Enables attunement to user's vibratory rate.
Raise consciousness to a higher level.
Access to angelic consciousness.
A link to the lightbody, helping to anchor in the earth vibrations.
Enhances telepathy.
Allows access to ones spiritual origins.
Clears and cleanses the auric field.
Assists judgement and insight.
Stabilizes erratic emotions.
Helps merge the energy of Spirit into our daily lives.
Is Pure White Light - into Physical, Intellectual and Spiritual.
Access to abundance and personal power.
Associations:
Chakras: Sacral, throat, crown and Third Eye.
Higher realms chakras,
opens and activates the soul star chakra.
Unlocks the doorway to the etheric chakras.
Element: wind.
Numerology: Vibrates to the number 8, 2 or Master Number 11.
Astrological sign: Taurus.
The original record keeping stone in Atlantean and Lemurian times.
Benefits proported with Usage:
Ask for passage to particular areas of knowledge, many times that knowledge is given to you in dreaming or while astral traveling.
Recharges other crystals and stone through visualization.
Amplifies healing.
Good for spine and nervous system, back aches, alignment of the spinal column.
Counterbalances poisonous effects, such as metals in teeth fillings.
Promotes regeneration of cellular structure, assisting in cancer, tumors, ages spots and wrinkles.
Decreases epilepsy and seizures.
Psychic development and intuitive processes.
Application:
Hold crystal, visual it bringing white light/energy (higher ideas / consciousness) from transpersonal point above head down through body, out through feet into earth/physical plane.
Place crystal on 3rd eye for access to stored information.
Rub with a finger or thumb during mediation allows one to see the inner workings of any situation.
Spirit guides and guardian angels will take one through a story in the form of "interior movies" that reveals the message symbolically.
Place on painful areas of the body to give relief. It pulls anything negative from where it sits.
For stress, place on your heart for a few minutes while breathing deeply.
Hold a piece in your hands to calm and soothe.
Create a grid of protection, surrounding anybody or anything.
Lie down, place one piece on each of 7 chakras (root, sacral, solar plexus, heart, throat, third-eye and crown) and hold one piece in each hand. This will ground and you will feel peace and your vibration frequency will rise from this use.
Feel its energy.
Experimentation is the best way to find new uses for Selenite.
Can be positioned on or off a body to stimulate relaxation, grounding, healing and entry into one's Light.
Create a protective grid around a house, place in each corner to stop negative outside influences getting in.
Can be cleansed by leaving them in running water or in the flame of the candle, then place it in direct sunlight, a great source of energy and purification.
However, Selenite constantly recharges itself and can cleanse and recharge other crystals or gemstones.
Placed on the Third Eye to heighten astral projection.
Qualities of selection:
Its color, intensity of color, eye catching, striking, vivid colors, transparency showing its crystalline structure, color, inclusions, phantoms, well-formed, abnormal color, pseudomorphs, twinning, presence of a matrix, freestanding, magnificence.
Geology:
Selenite is a crystal form of gypsum, referred to as Gypsum, Satin Spa, or Alabaster which forms easily from saline water and can contain other minerals, and sometimes trapped bubbles. It is a hydrous calcium sulphate CaSO42H20. Usually transparent and occurs in the monclinic crystal system. It is very soft being a 2 on the Moe's scale of hardness.
The refractive index is 1.52-1.53 and the specific gravity is 230. The fish-tail and tabby varieties are from Mexico. The Hourglass selenite is from Canada. From the Kalahari Desert, the ancient sands have combined with the Selenite to enhance its beauty and metaphysical energy. It occurs as either natural colorless clear, needle-like or white tabular crystals.
