Week 6

Last night we completed the performance aspect of the chakra painting project. It was amazing and incredibly exhausting! Each girl took about an hour from the start of hair and makeup to the completion of their performance and painting.  As soon as hair and makeup was done I went over their sequence with them, I then painted their bodies, ran upstairs turned on the video camer, ran back downstairs went through their sequences with them, ran upstairs to turn the camera off and then would begin with the next girl until I finally went last.  My bathroom, by the way, looked like a rainbow exploded or muppets were slaughtered...it was a child's dream. 

My garage worked out as an amazing place to shoot the performance and all the girls were so excited about the space they all voted to hold the actual exhibition there as well. Could be interesting!

 

So far: I have edited the videos but need to overlay sounds that I found off the web:
root chakra- bumble bee sounds
sacral chakra- wooden flute
navel chakra- string instrument
heart chakra- bells
throat chakra- wind blowing through trees
third eye chakra- waves crashing on the beach
crown chakra- Om

I will then be ready to set up the eyecon program into my computer and begin setting up my garage. It looks like the exhibition will have to be Saturday or Sunday night...leaning toward Saturday.

I am still collecting photos and videos that the girls took with their phones as the second perspective to include in the event. I have allowed this to happen organically, in that they naturally uploaded them to facebook where I will retrieve them. The great thing about this is the enormous amount of commentary that is occuring as a result. This social aspect has been the most unexpected and yet most important part of the chakra installation. While the paintings are aphysical memory of intention, the social is a documentation of the relationship between the inward and outward journey opf the psyche, ego and spirit...this is the process of breaking through the chakras. Additionally, they will each submit a quote that will add to the intimacy, as the quotes are directed toward the audeience at the installation.

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After paintings are complete, I'm thinking about turning them into graffiti art to share the images.  Perhaps a wheat paste application of a life size print of the paintings??  I have a location where I may be able do do my first installation.