P E A C E W O R K S | P E A C E W o r k s
* THE HUM OF THE PARTS | A GLOBAL HONEYCOMB *
Oil & Pencil on Canvas
. . . 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 . . .
* Link to MANY AS ONE website
MANDALA FOR TABITHA and THE MISSING NIGERIAN SCHOOLGIRLS
Beeswax, enameled steel pins, Communion Wafers & Ink
2014
NEVER AGAIN
68th Anniversary Commemorative Exhibition | Hiroshima & Nagasaki
6 August 2012
68th Anniversary Commemorative Exhibition | Hiroshima & Nagasaki
6 August 2012
PEACE BANNERS
Created for the Department of Peace & Conflict Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
. . . 2014 . . .
BREAKING NEWS | Prayer for Syria
Like so many, I struggle to reconcile the atrocities occurring daily in Syria - and many other communities around our globe - with the simplicity and grace of the life I live on the other side of the world. How do we make sense of our different realities - domesticity, safety and privilege on the one hand and a life of fear, loss and horror on the other? This film is my attempt to build a bridge between these two realities and in so doing to stand alongside those amongst our world's people whose lives are unsafe and touched by sorrow at this time.
The text combines a poem originally written in response to the genocide in Kosovo and Rwanda with lines borrowed directly from current NYTimes articles covering the Syrian crisis.
I am grateful to Moscow-based composer Darin Sysoev for making his music available to me for this film. Please click on the links to listen to more of his compositions - last.fm/music/Darin+Sysoev & reverbnation.com/darinsysoev
PLANET SYRIA | A Communal Honeycomb
Mixed Media on Canvas
Various artists
THE SOLDIER & THE POET
High on the peninsula hills directly opposite my house stands a lone soldier. He is part of my everyday landscape and I have wondered often about him and his story. Some years ago - in early 2009 - a poem 'arrived', landing on the page as if the soldier had called it forth. As if he were listening. And then, a month or two ago, my friend Elizabeth sent me a letter. "I'm not sure how to tell you this," she said, "but the soldier has written a response to his poet."
This is the conversation that passed between them.
TE RANGIMARIE | MAY PEACE PREVAIL
Composed & Sung by Pam Morrison ('Bird')
Composed & Sung by Pam Morrison ('Bird')
LUMEN
Think of the intensity and comfort of a single candle flame, the miracle and privilege of electric light. Each is ceremonial in a different way; each lightens and softens the dark. In these days of increasing uncertainty, simple domestic rituals - lighting a candle or turning on a light - can become powerful, peaceful and unifying gestures. (Created for ONE DAY ON EARTH - A global initiative documenting 11.11.11)