Big feet seem to be everywhere!
“What we’re doing hasn’t worked; we have to find new ways to move forward. Nature is worth the effort.” Lisa Brunetti
…Step into My World… 28/October/2021 – April 2022
Portoviejo-Manabi Province – Ecuador Inauguración Exposición:
Entra a mi mundo – Museo Portoviejo y Archivo Histórico
The tree trunk goes HERE:
This tree was my friend; it offered shade and visual gifts to me. It offered refuge to many species. It was felled to join other comrades to be sent across the Pacific – destroying Ecuador’s rapidly vanishing forests – to be used in the wind turbine industry. This was a sobering realization for me.
Bamboo seems to be one of few choices that has a lighter impact, but some landowners whack back every cane in order to harvest the mature ones. Can our species remember to spare the habitat for those neighbors that thrive in the wild?
Enter the museo and follow the yellow-brick yellow-track trail….
In the gallery space adjacent to the auditorium, Daniel Arias displayed a collection of bird photographs. Visitors were able to view the images and visit with Daniel before and after the inauguration.
Photo by Museo Portoviejo/ shared by Carlos Wellington
The inauguration began with a classical ballet performance by Daniel’s brother, Elías Arias- true grace and beauty and strength – poetry for the eyes.
(Starting around minute 19.)
“Danza de un Cisne Herido en sus últimos momentos de agonía” –
Coreografía: Elías Arias sobre la original de Ricardo Cue
Música: El Lago de los Cisnes Autor: Camille Saint Saëns
The Dance of the Dying Swan – performed by Elias several weeks ago at Casa de la Cultura. (Images from the 28th were not too clear.)
At 1 hour 33 in the video: Martha Terán
“El ave que se atreve a caer, es el ave que aprender a volar”
Alzando el vuelo, intervención performatica de Martha Terán. Música : Antara, instrumentos autóctonos. Edición : Diego Camacho.
Vestuario : Layne Uquillas.
Chal: Pintado por Lisa Brunetti.
And then in groups of twenty and following the trail of yellow tracks, the visitors moved one floor higher.
After reaching that floor, I took very few photos. The museo will be closed from now until Thursday for holiday, and when it reopens, I will photograph the entrance where these big feet preside:
I cannot close without sharing a few test samples! I invite you to step into my world: 1. Using either Google Play or Apple, download the Artivive app.
2. After the app downloads, aim your phone at this iguana, which wishes it lived the high limbs of a real forest:
“I wish I were a horse… or maybe a bird.. but I would be happy to live in a big tree in the forest…” (All credit goes to Giovanni Ruiz, who showed me this technology and helped implement it into my work.)
Or maybe the little masked cartoon bird wishes to be a bird in the wild:
What do you think this mask critter would like to be?
Monkey Mask – acrylic
Thanks for visiting, and I hope that you enjoyed the peek behind the scenes! Happy Halloween! Lisa
Photo by Museo Portoviejo, shared by Carlos Wellington. (Can you spot two creatives who worked through the night?!)
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A special thanks goes to Andres, Dady y Gigi for their tireless help and cheerful spirits.
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and a finale of a sobering and thought-provoking video, shared today by Peter Sinclair/ClimateCrocks
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Zeebra Designs & Destinations 
Dear Lisa,
thanks a lot to give us an insight of your world. We like these big feet.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Yes, those big feet make all of us smile – thank you! When I visited Santiago’s work area and saw the just-finished product, I thought, “A giant Purple Gallinule – yes, we’re going to have to create a whimsical huge bird!” I hope that we can do this side project soon. Siri and Selma would have fun hiding in the plumage of a giant gallinule!
The bird tracks were equally effective in raising the smile level, and it’s fun to watch the reactions as people begin to walk up the stairs.
Thank you, and I hope that the Fab Four have had good weekend . (I wish I could have perused all of those books in that book sale!)
Thanks Lisa for sharing this. Keith
Thank you, Keith, for doting on so many of us on WordPress, for keeping us updated when others face challenges, for tossing out jewels of music that link some of us back to days when we were younger, and of course for addressing serious topics.
Thanks Lisa. You are much too kind. Take care, Keith
A lot of fun and beauty, Miss Z.
The setting would be even better if we could walk up those stairs together and swap stories while viewing the exhibit. Thank you, Don, for always raising the positive vibration when you walk into a room – even if that room is an electronic one.
How wonderful to see your post in my reading. You are always creating an adventure with art!
And I was perusing the queue of new posts on WP and saw your Sandburg – and recalled ‘There will come soft rains’ – Teasdale so very touching for our present times
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I agree wholeheartedly. We live within complexity and we are sustained by creative endeavours. Thank you for your commitment to fostering beauty and compassion, my dear friend. Sending many hugs!
Nice to see you active again. Most interesting
Si.. and the postal service remains ‘out of order’ – haven’t forgotten you!!! hope you’re doing good things in hawaii as well, but especially staying well.
Oh, those feet! You are so talented, my blogging friend. Thanks for the glimpse into your creative world.
janet
Oh, those feet! That sounds like a great title to a book! Thank you, Janet. If you were here, you’d been helping with all of these tasks – glad you enjoyed the peek!
I would help!
I wish you were here to help — and to be partners in many creative projects.. many things are incubating….. all creative and encouraging – for the future!
I look forward to reading all about them, Lisa. ❤
Love the footprints on the stairs!
I think that every building should have footprints on stairs – they automatically make people smile! Do you think we could do that in all government buildings?!!!
Sounds good to me!
Lisa, this exhibition looks like you ! beautiful, generous, inventive, totally inserted in our world and our crucial environmental questions…. I wish I could be there, at Porto viejo, to see all these paintings and sculptures and follow all the funny yellow birds tracks with you, Marie, Cis and Lise !!!!! You are definitely a great annd so sensitive artist, totally connected to nature. Our Earth needs people like you. THANK YOU
Dear Helene,
It’s so great that you could spend time in Ecuador and know exactly where the apartment is, and to visualize the behind-the-scenes process. Perhaps I need to start handing out sets of those yellow-footed stickers – and they circle the world.
Thank you for your support in all things that I do. Love, Lisa
Oh Lisa, you bring such compassion and beauty to the world! 💕
I love the iguana – so beautiful.
Alison xo
Thanks! The iguana was fun to paint, and it makes people smile, as do the yellow bird tracks on the stairs.
As for compassion and beauty – you always share so many stunning images on your posts, it’s always hard to decide which is the favorite. I especially enjoyed seeing the ‘shopping’ containers – down here there is so much deforestation, and hillsides vanishing so that bricks can be made – so what’s a good choice – seems to me the containers, maybe in a prarie wagon-train circle then make a big bamboo interior playground? i’m not too crazy about the metal for health/grounding reasons… still, the containers seem to be the most ‘holistic’ option for our planet. they are inexpensive here – or they were pre-pandemic. soon life will move forward!
¡Felicitaciones! Has no one yet said those feet are quite a feat? The part of the monkey mask surrounding the face strikes me as coming from a sea anemone or other denizen of the deep, or else something botanical. And oh, that iguana and solar disk.
Steve, you always uplift others with your witty comments! Now when I peer at that iguana – even if a group is touring the show, I see it through your eyes and spirit! Thank you!
While doing a little inbox excavation this morning I unearthed this post…such a terrific group of people you have to work with, Lisa. Your message will travel far via this exhibit. Congratulations!
Thank you so much; the timing of this one seems perfect, and many people thank me for spotlighting a part of their world they’ve never taken time to notice. Sometimes we’re just the ‘assist’ player, connecting in this example, the locals with what’s almost underfoot – or overhead!