{"id":716,"date":"2014-11-25T19:04:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T00:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/?p=716"},"modified":"2017-12-23T09:53:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T14:53:25","slug":"about-altar-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/writing\/about-altar-making","title":{"rendered":"About Altar Making"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Notes on The Practice<\/h1>\n

A component of my art practice is altar making in the spirit of Betye Saar but with the ephemeral nature of \u00a0Barbara Ellmann’s <\/span>Flower Altar<\/span><\/i>. The installation of the altar is a vehicle for engaging the view and an opportunity to document the materials which are then collaged into prints. The exhibition component is also an opportunity to engage with a community and have the community contribute to the imagery collected. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“I like things with religious overtones. As a child, I collected random things and built altars in my room or in the backyard. In my twenties, I maintained an altar of small objects, some of which were intended for rituals\u2014bells and dorje and such\u2014but others were entirely mundane: a small teapot, a wooden bowl, pieces of rope, and stones and twigs I found in the forest that had some undetermined meaning. I like things that evoke a certain amount of religiosity: Buddha-shaped cocktail glasses, anything shaped like a cow, statues of Chinese warriors.”<\/span><\/p>\n

From Object & Joy in My Junk Tastes Like Flowers<\/a><\/p>\n

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