by Russell Maier | Sep 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
Woven Straw Mat. This is a new art medium my Dutch friend and I are exploring: Co-Creating with villagers canvases and products out of used drinking straws.My new Dutch friend Maartin has been visiting Bianca and I here in Sagada. It’s perfect timing because...
by Russell Maier | Sep 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
My exhibition at the Baguio Museum ends this week. The two small paintings have sold but not the big one (4ft x 2.5ft) Price 1100$. It is made by the trash weaving women in Natonin. The frame is custom constructed to be easy to assemble and dissemble. Orders welcome!...
by Russell Maier | Sep 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
Phew! I have returned from three weeks of Jedi traveling between villages. I have Wifi and can now at last post some pictures of the luminal deliveries, cocreations and connections that occurred as I passed through this particularly impoverished and disconnected...
by Russell Maier | Sep 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Here’s a little video of my work with the crazy remote school I mentioned in my past post. The movie features a series of trash and plant mandalas made by students from the Ga’dan tribe. BNTAS Annonat Extensionis a remote school in the Paracelis region of...
by Russell Maier | Aug 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’ve been sharing my recent work with a crazy remote and challenged school in the mountains of Paracelis, Philipinnes. The school serves the isolated Ga’dan tribe. The teachers make a 2 hour commute over rough road, then stay the week in the two room...
by Russell Maier | Aug 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
I am finally getting the hang of being a Jedi. It’s easy actually. It’s all about flowing with the force. You flow, the force does the rest.In this way I showed up to the Gag’gad’dumpay Youth conference on the Environment with Irene and several...
by Russell Maier | Aug 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
I was in Paracelis last week for the Gag-gag-Dumpay youth Conference. Here with 150 youth at the environmental summit, we began a mosaic mandala– out of trash! Here it is unfolding, piece by piece of colorful-cut-up-sachets at-a-time. I am as surprised as you...
by Russell Maier | Aug 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’ve been making mandalas from a crazy remote and challenged school in the mountains of Paracelis, Philipinnes. The school serves the isolated Ga’dan tribe. The teachers make a 2 hour commute over rough road, then stay the week in the two room...
by Russell Maier | Aug 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
I am very proud of this.Last week, the weaving women and I finished off all of prototype pieces. With the help of framers, carpenters and friends, I was able to make it to Baguio with the art pieces for the show.It was a great example of existential determinism...
by Russell Maier | Aug 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
“One man’s trash is anothers Treasure.” So the saying goes. But perhaps we can make that a little more relevant… “One man’s trash is a women’s treasure.”Here in the Northern aphilippines, the older women use a splendid...
Russell is a regenerative artist, inventor and philosopher based in Bali, Indonesia. He is one of the principals of global the Ecobrick. His regenerative theories are inspired by his time amongst the Igorot people, his journey with plastic and his work mandalas. Russell is currently working on a new theory of Earthen Ethics and Plastic Sequestration. You can follow him on Facebook