http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1053 This show was partially a retrospective of work I've done over the many years I've gone out to the Hot Springs. Since my retirement, I'm able to go more often and utilize more time in my formula for retreat. I don't mind relaxing and doing my work when it is art and I do it with purpose and meaning wherever I am. It is a different environment than my studio at home yet I create connections through time and space to be anywhere I am (he, he).
The invitation read: "Ride the carpet of Mojave landscapes across the spring flower strewn floors and settle at the Spring waters for retreat, relaxation and renewal.
Stay for the show, make reservations for nice rooms, private pools, meals at a really cool Bistro and get to know all the warm and friendly folk. You won't feel like a stranger there, most folk feel much more like themselves when they are there." the resort is still showing other artist's work all the time and I hope to be accepted as one of their regular "adjunct" artists.

Tecopa Hot Springs Resort
Tecopa Hot Springs Road
P.O. Box 25
Tecopa CA. 92389
(760) 825-4420
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Maybe no explanation is sufficient. You might need to see the show to "get it." Otherwise, this is totally personal and one of those indulgences that Artists take, when we want.
But, some folks who have seen this kinda like it too.]]> photo Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:56:32 -0400 http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1148 http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1148
This is not a painting. It is a photoshop image made from one of the Path of the Labyrinth meditations with the Dharma Seal design projected on the painting while the sun shines through the window of my camper on the bed where the painting is drying. Then the Sun Mandala design is enhanced with hue manipulation and exaggerated contrast. The original sumi painting of just the path, without the color projected on it, exists and will be shown as is a simple black sumi brush stroke on white paper. The question for the viewer at the show, will be, "Does the painting alone, give the impression of 'The Dark Labyrinth'?"
But, again, I think the image is very expressive of just how I saw the concept, at the time. Also, it will continue to exist as a print available for purchase at small, med. or large size.]]> photo Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:49:15 -0400 http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1146 http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1146
Although this is only a photoshop composite of a collage of an Orange Circle (to be featured in its original form in the show), and the blue labyrinth that is a copy of a selected path-of-the-labyrinth meditation, I just liked it. This poster image represents a combination of images that show the relationship between the collage as a retreat meditation from about fifteen years ago, and a more recent meditation performed with the sumi brush and ink. I printed one of these for the spin-art bin in the show.]]> photo Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:34:19 -0400 http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1144 http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1144
This is one of the post actuation photoshop prints made from various elements that have gone into the Labyrinth Project. The pictures were taken during my last trip to Tecopa, March 3rd to the 10th, as I completed the preparations for the show. I was feeling some successes in the Sumi/Path of the Labyrinth sessions. This also, is one of the available prints that will be among the "spin art" bins at the show. I will have many single prints and original sumi labyrinths for attendees to buy that will be reasonable and plentiful for your choice and appreciation.]]> photo Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:22:12 -0400 http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1106 http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1106
OK. I may be going a little too far with this image. It is a composite of a lot of photoshop stuff; all original. The hole is Squaw Hole and it has the image of the clay labyrinth superimposed over it. Then the background is an image I've been playing with. When you're in a cave trying to take pictures with a flash, the camera does not focus well. I was trying to take a picture of the ore markings in the wall of Noonday Mine in Tecopa and the camera captured many sparkles in the ore but the wall of the cave was out of focus. This is contrast and darkening with some dodging and burning to bring out the colors. The sparkles are the result of the flash of the camera on the crystals in the cave wall. I don't know, . . . something about metaphors for convergence.]]> photo Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:02:00 -0400 http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1104 http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1104
March 9, 2010, 5:30 PM. Just an inference of the alignment of the center of the labyrinth to the direct location of Squaw Hole. I tried to show the arrangement by using the highlighting of selected ovals and some lavender color layers. I guess eventually I'll get into a mention of all the amethyst connections. Anyway, I was motivated to emphasize this relationship. Many people are connecting to the infusion of spirit in our daily lives through the occurrences of synchronicity and our choice to practice actualization through time-tunneling. Why not? The answers appear when least expected but most obviously believable. Why not?]]> photo Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:45:03 -0500 http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1102 http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1102
This is just included to show you and introduce you to the concept that I go out to Tecopa and do artwork in my camper. While I am doing these sumi ink-brush paintings of the "Path of the Labyrinth," I lay them out on the only large flat (sometimes) surface available, my cab-over bed. The sun begins to shine in the side window and sometimes warms me into a lazy slumber. I doze, I wake, I meditate, I paint. At this time the bed is being used to dry ink paintings. So, I recorded it. Tom and Pam and I shared some great conversations about spirit work on this last trip, March 3rd to the 10th. They too are most aware and interested in moving in the direction of a more peaceful and harmonious world that acknowledges spirit ways. Let's show our intent and participate in healing actuations.]]> photo Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:23:09 -0500 http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1100 http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1100
It was about 5:00 PM on March 9th when the sun was going down and shining in my camper window. It fully illuminated my work table top and I was mesmerized by the luminosity of the paper. I actually paid no attention to the shadow, but most thoroughly followed the path of the brush each time I painted. I found new understandings about being a participant in these actuations.]]> photo Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:31:17 -0500 http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1098 http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1098
This is for our healings. We love, we accept the love and we are healed. That is what this is all about. We do this, we heal ourselves, the world is healed. Just because we are being selected to do this demonstration of healing does not diminish its truth. Ok, let's be healed and move on to the real reasons we've been born into this life, this is just what we do.
On the last day of my most recent retreat to Tecopa Hot Springs Resort, this meditation preceded my attention to the labyrinth. The sun was going down and shining through my camper window, up where it shines on my over-cab bed through a clear plastic colored "darma-seal" from the early new age movement. It is a sun mandala with a rainbow array of concentric circles around it. It just happened to be shining on one of the paintings of the path of the labyrinth when I got my camera. This was what I was hoping for: a sign of y/our healing.]]> photo Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:25:30 -0500 http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1094 http://fisherjohnd.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1094
OK, this is actually a bit on the serious side. I know I've borrowed some internet images of the brain from somewhere, so if you recognize the origins, I'll gladly give credit, stop using it, or give royalties if anyone has any interest in giving me money for a copy if this. Otherwise, this image is not meant to be part of the Spring Offerings Show other than in this posted message.
We are finding ourselves in an increasingly serious situation in our world and in our lives. We all need healing, the world needs healing. Things aren't working well. Yet, we mustn't let exploitation of our fears of the unknown influence our judgment. Just our "heart-felt" feelings aren't enough. We must ask ourselves what has "God" given us in our intelligent being, our brain, that can help us solve some of our problems?
This image is meant to draw attention to the "seat of the soul," the pineal gland. It is this inner, creator source of each individual where true change, evolution and salvation for the world will be initiated (actually is being initiated right now). This center of our brain, the "third eye," the gateway to the new world and transformed consciousness will be the trigger for the Harmonic Convergence prediction that we will become "light beings." Ready yourselves for this event. It is not the end of the world, but the beginning of a new.
Take the path of the labyrinth to the center of the brain. Center yourself, meditate, pray, actuate your intent for a better world. It may not mean you get rich, forget all that materialism, competition and meritocracy are the sources of greed and mistrust. Get over it! It is wrong for anyone to try to take it all. Let's move on to a more cooperative, enlightened world of helping one another.
In lak'ech.]]> photo Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:16:26 -0400