Boulderites

Over the past summer i began going out to Boulder creek in Boulder, Colorado to relax on weekends. My outings quickly evolved into large-scale balanced rock projects. At first i only built a few, which matured into several dozen at a time. The art quickly caught on among passers by. The Cairns i was building, especially on flowing water had a universal nature that transcended social constructions like age, gender, race, class, etc. something deeply subconscious invited people from all walks of life to gather and look at the stacks. Often over the summer, people associated a higher concentration of energy in and around the formations. a few different people stopped me to tell some interesting things about the stacked rocks i was making. One person said that building them on water was an ancient native american religious ritual (not sure if that's true, but makes sense). Another told me they had been in Asia recently where they saw monks and a shaman building balanced rock formations on water. They said that in Buddhism there was a word for three balanced rocks (a vague human form) that translated to "Kiss of God". I found that to be kind of interesting. Then later in the summer, another woman stopped to tell me about inuktitut or inukshuk. Many also told me about an interesting artist named Andy Goldsworthy who also makes alot of art with natural objects. Check out his movie "Rivers and Tides". i found all these instances quite interesting because it supported my theory that there was some underlying connection between these forms and the human psyche. But nothing proved as important to me as a cairn builder and spacial designer than the actual process of building what i came to call Boulderites. With much patience required, the meditative nature of construction perfectly blends the halves of the brain. The Physics of balance requires nothing less than logic and calculation of the masculine left half of the brain to slowly work toward the perfect balance point. Equally, the art associated with overall design layout, and jaw-dropping color washes inherent in the creek rocks, are solely interwoven with the feminine, right half of the brain...together these elements create a universal point of focus. Each Boulderite appeared to have its own life energy that intricately danced with those around it. Together these communities multiplied the local energy exponentially. i began to see various people stumbling upon my zen gardens and stopping to meditate, read, or study. There was always a certain comfortable calm at the sites, which was probably a factor in my repeated visitation and construction in certain areas.

Although there was a notable element of danger associated with the towering rocks in relation to creek tubers, the degree of danger proved minimal, as i still have yet to witness the tragedy of a heavy rock falling on a tuber. i carefully thought out the placement of all "communities", whether slightly manipulating creek flow or building barriers to deter tubers completely. My basic outlook was to leave it up to the universe after a certain point of manual adjustments. It was my honest belief that the universe or the omniscient mind would not let something tragic happen because it would surely cut back on a community's new found attention to Earth, even if on a minuscule scale such as this. i'm not sure if this theory has any basis but i would also like to believe that my creations and manipulations had a function. The function being energy concentration and earth empowerment. I always thought in the back of my mind that building these rock scapes centered people's energy to flow toward the center of the earth. this makes sense to me because every single boulderite aligned with the center of the earth along its center of gravity. if energy has any interaction with gravitation, it would make sense that any energy transmitted by an enchanted spectator would align with these gravitational centers of alignement so long as the spectators energy and thoughts were focused on one or many boulderites. Since i now spend alot of time stacking rocks, i will be posting many pictures here and there of various shots i've captured with a new camera i got specifically for the purpose of documenting my transient artwork...

Wisdom and 2012

"We were saying how very important it is to bring about in the human mind, the radical revolution. The crisis, is a crisis in consciousness. A crisis that cannot, anymore, accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions. And considering what the world is now, with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression, and so on, Man is still as he was. He's still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive... And he has built a society along these lines.....
In all these discussions and talks here, is to see if we cannot radically bring about a transformation of the mind. Not accept things as they are, but to understand it, to go into it, to examine it, give your heart and your mind with everything you have to find out -- a way of living differently...But...that depends on you and not somebody else, cuz in this there's no teacher, no pupil. There's no leader, there's no guru, there's no master, no savior. You yourself are the teacher, are the pupil, you are the master, you are the guru, you are the leader, you are everything. And, to understand is to transform what is..."

Pigs on the Wing at Cervantes (11-06-09)

So after steppin for a few hours on 8th and Santa Fe, we took off to Cervantes to check out a Pink Floyd cover band called Pigs on the Wing performing live with David Murphy of STS9. In short the show was awesome! Pink Floyd is one of my favorite bands of all time and these guys played the music precisely with everything from voice inflections to the moods created with the music. I managed to climb up on a box with Eliza to get a better vantage point for pictures...these are some pictures i got...
The random nature of the night also played deeply into the quality. i would not trade a single moment for anything. i was hanging with some of my best friends and just going with the flow. the universe decided to take us all on an unexpected friday night adventure...

Dubsteppin in the streets (11-06-09)

We were hanging out in Denver for November's First-Friday Art Walk , when a huge Van pulled up beside us and began blasting some dirt-nasty dubstep compliments of Colt45 and others mixing live inside the Van. The four of us began steppin large followed by many other passers by. The party continued for a few hours joined later by random fire spinners. The energy in the area was larger than the depth of bass coming out of the speakers. It felt like we owned the streets for the time the van was there. Definitely wanna go check out Denver again some other Friday night for more random madness and debauchery.