Fire Whispers

Listen Rocks

Earth Not Equal Moon

Artists' statement + Bios:

 

Small Voices: images

a collaboration between Dorothee Lang and Daniela Elza

 

How to listen to small voices? We make noise, create things that make loud noises. All too quickly forget to listen to the very quiet, to silences, which speak to us in numerous ways. This theme encompasses both artists' work: the many ways earth/mind thinks, speaks. The invitation: Listen. 

 

The flame entices, sparks us to create. Full of whispers, we are spurred on in our process. Ancient branches on the tree of knowledge twist this way and that. Thoughts influence our wor(l)d. Define it. Definitions drive our actions, but limit the voices and directions. Small voices whisper together. Can we get quiet enough, still enough, to attend to these voices? Can we weave these voices toward transformation, toward an ever expanding spiral of spiritual growth: participation, effort, struggle, celebration in the carefully placed stones?

 

A metaphor also of our collaboration, in itself a spiralling process, demanding listening. The journey is a constant discovery, re/searching, re/covering, re/fining, re/envisioning.

 

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Bios:

 

Dorothee Lang is the founding editor of BluePrintReview and Daily s-Press. She is a writer, editor, web freelancer, traveller, gardener. Recent publications include elimae, PicFic, HA&L, The New Yorker (book bench), Spiral Orb and Metazen – and her first story collection: “in transit”. Dorothee holds a degree in economics and advertising, keeps a sky diary and currently is into collaborate projects of both the visual and the novel kind. She lives in the South of Germany. Her website is:  http://www.blueprint21.de

 

Daniela Elza has released more than 140 poems into the world in more than 42 publications. Her interests lie in the gaps, rubs, and bridges between poetry, language, and philosophy. She recently completed her first full length poetry manuscript and is currently busy collaborating with fellow poets and artists, as a pleasant distraction from working on her doctorate thesis in Philosophy of Education. Daniela is the recipient of this year's Pandora's Collective Citizenship Award. She lives with her family in Vancouver.  http://strangeplaces.livingcode.org/