by Russell Maier | Jun 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
GeoTagged, [N17.09816, W120.89987]Tis a grey day. I went to bed sneezing. I woke up my eyes so red that I could barely keep them open. I am beset either by allergies or some strange cold. I feel absolutely terrible. Most of the day I could barely see, let alone do any...
by Russell Maier | Jun 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
Walking down a country road we came across three children playing in a tree. I asked if I could take a picture of their smiles to share with the world. They gleefully obliged and this photo emerged as the little boy offered us some berries, and you some light. Oneness...
by Russell Maier | Jun 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
Well, that was fun! I was invited back for a second Sunday of mandala making at St. Matthew Church in Baagaan this past Sunday. This time we moved up from individual to couple to a big group mandala. Again, no art supplies necessay! I gave the kids 10 minutes to...
by Russell Maier | Jun 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Good question! How do you?!That was my issue this past Sunday sitting in the wooden community church of St. Matthews in the village of Bangaan. Dom-an had spoken the day before with someone from the Church about our last mandala done through the Kasiyana Peace and...
by Russell Maier | Jun 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
After a hectic month in Manila, I am out in the mountains for some rest, restoration and… Mandala making! I am staying with Dom-an, a petite Philipina of indigenous Igorot ancestory. Her Kasiyana Peace and Healing Center where I am typing this as the rain pours...
by Russell Maier | Jun 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while. Back in Manila, I attended a mandala writing workshop. Yep, ‘attended’. I wasn’t leading it! And, it was on making written mandalas. It was a refreshing and inspiring shift.We sat together in silence...
by Russell Maier | May 31, 2010 | Uncategorized
Me and the trail on the way up to the house.—–I am now staying, living, resting and working from the mountains around Saganda, 13 hours north of Manila. I am staying with Dom-an and her family in her peace and healing centre perched on a hill top surounded...
by Russell Maier | May 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
Baguio – Sagada / busI am high. Out the bus window, I look straight down. And I mean straight down. The bus winds along the side of the craziest, cliff perched, mountain hugging road you can possibly imagine. The view is what you would expect from an airplane...
by Russell Maier | May 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
I really don’t know how to compose this post. Basically it is going up to let everyone know who might have been trying to get through to me in the last few days that I am OK! My iPhone mysteriously died after sending one last very intense e-mail out (ironically...
by Russell Maier | May 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
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