1st week of Lent, Friday – Look at one object within your view. Let your eyes examine it a trace all its edges, colour, light, etc. Let your eyes rest on this object seemingly without purpose. Let your mind settle and relax.
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FIRST WEEK OF LENT -THURSDAY
FIRST WEEK OF LENT -WEDNESDAY
FIRST WEEK OF LENT -TUESDAY
FIRST WEEK OF LENT -MONDAY
SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY
Saturday after Ash Wednesday – With eyes closed, use your hands to hold your face. Run your hands over your features. This is the face given to you by generations of those who went before you. They live in this world because of you and your face. It is a God given face. This face bravely turns to the world in hope for good in the future. With eyes still closed, smile and feel this smile. Think of drawing the smile inside – to smile at yourself. YOU are worth your lovely face and its smile.
FRIDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY
Friday after Ash Wednesday – Wrapping your arms around your own shoulders, give yourself a sustained, solid hug. Lean into this hug and hold yourself up. The person you are hugging has been given to you by God. Like God, you know everything about you and still hold yourself dear. Be God’s voice. Be there for you. Keep yourself in touch so you can be that needed friend.
THURSDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY
Thursday after Ash Wednesday – With eyes closed, hold your own hands. Lightly draw each hand over the other, gently massaging every part. The stop and just hold your hand, feeling its warmth and life. Notice that you are a live gift to yourself. These are the hands your parents cuddled so admiringly. These are the hands that touch the ones you love, touch your future. Stay holding your hands for this session.
ASH WEDNESDAY
ASH WEDNESDAY – Use the well burnt match to make the sign of a cross on the back of your hand. Say ‘Dust to dust, ashes to ashes.’ These words are used at funerals to remind us that we are all part of the earth and will return to the earth in time. Close your eyes and breathe slowly, in and out. Think about the miraculous way you are alive now, able to realize the renewal of your blood oxygen with each breath. Continue noticing your breathing for this session.
ENCODE in MEL and SYD
5 minute Lenten Mini-Devos 2012
By Flossie Peitsch
LENTEN OVERVIEW: There are 40 days in Lent. (Sundays in this period are not counted as Lent.) The term Lent is derived from the word ‘lengthen’ as in ‘the days are getting longer’ in the Northern Hemisphere. Lent, a time of penitence, starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on Maundy Thursday of holy week. The original Lutherans wanted Lent abolished as it is not a Biblical concept. Luther, however, said it was a good time to tell the passion story of Christ. It is traditional to give up something for Lent but it can also follow four (4)
Repentance – self-examination
Prayer – Pray about life issues, including listening to God’s word
Fasting – Limiting or eliminating something you enjoy, as you feel you are led to do
Service – Giving up personal time for others’ benefit
PREPARE: Pick a time when you will not be interrupted. Have beside you your Bible and light a candle. The purpose of the Devos is to momentarily simplify your spirituality in time by focusing on one thought or action. It is meant to bring a new awareness through some of our God-given attributes.
General Daily Outline
[Light the candle]
Say Out-loud
Show me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.
[Daily Focus]
Say Out-loud
May the blessing of the Holy One who gives us life, the blessing of the Human One who heals our lives, the blessing of the Spirit who enriches our lives, be with us all during this sacred time.
[Extinguish the candle]
G is for Gallery Interactive Exhibition
Excellent! You are here! This QR code has brought you to a site where you can interact with my installation art in MATERIAL WORLD: extraordinary environments made from ordinary things at ANCA Gallery in Canberra, Australia.
Historically, the gallery space is a place where creativity and culture both mesh and clash. If only the walls could speak their stories…and we could listen. What has been said there and what will be said in the future? Maybe you can actually hear the words pulse and roll to the surface.
Pick ‘G’ words from the list that seem important to you – artists or themes – or think of your own ‘G’ words…
Gaudí Guggenheim Gender Globalization Gluttony Gauguin Garbage Gibberish Geiger Counter Greater Good Géricault Grave Graze Giacometti Generate Generous Giggawatts Give Place Gilbert and George Goal Google Giotto Vincent van Gogh Goya GST El Greco Grosz
Then, please add your ‘G’ words below.
Your chosen words will be composed into a new audio form and reintroduced to the gallery space at this exhibition’s close…..moving from written words to spoken words to sounded words to sensational soundscape!….. Come be a part of it!
G is for Gallery Soundscape (3.4mb)
This QR Code is being used both as a practical web-link and actual art, in the pop art mode.
Used as it is, it is the main tool of ENCODE, performance art which toys with inside/outside gallery space and inclusion/exclusion in the art ‘lingo’. ENCODE reflexively plays with one’s idea of ‘real art’. It links canvas with technology with alternative space with active place with altered time. This is a blurring of preconceived art ideas and gallery conventions such as word versus image, system versus sign, sound versus sight, public versus private, to name only a few.
Interestingly, ENCODE, art which could solidly promote the idea that the gallery is a place of important current cultural exchange, has NOT officially been allowed to be performed at certain important galleries in the ACT. When I initially wrote to gain permission, it was denied ‘due to short notice of intent or not supporting the exhibitions currently showing or taking attention away from other artists’ work, etc.’ I accept these decisions, but it does add another sticky layer to the discourse doesn’t it? What fun!