by Russell Maier | Mar 5, 2010 | 1Mandala
So for quite a long time now, I have been working with a team of people from all over on the 1Mandala. And now, as the 1Mandala renews, I will be working with a team of people from all over on the 1Mandala.However, this time its going to be different. Before, when...
by Russell Maier | Mar 3, 2010 | Paintings
My paintings are on exhibition in Victoria at the moment! This however is the last week that they are up.Its is a show featuring homeless artists– which fit perfectly with my artistic journey over the last year and a half. I had several paintings shipped down...
by Russell Maier | Mar 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
This may sound strange, but… I can feel my tongue.My whole tongue.Not just half of it.
by Russell Maier | Feb 27, 2010 | 1Mandala
Above is a photo of the first Spring flowers I saw in Paris today. Below is a general letter that builds on my last more personal one, that I will shortly be sending out to the full 1Mandala database. ________Ladies and gentlemen, I am happy to announce that the first...
by Russell Maier | Feb 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’ve been diligently watching the little green buds that have poking through the dry grass of late. Today, after a morning shower and in the afternoon sun, I noticed the first blossoms. Hurray! It has been a long winter. I smile.
by Russell Maier | Feb 18, 2010 | - Mandalas, 1Mandala, co-creation
As I begin anew with the 1Mandala, a new word is slipping in to my vocabulary. Where before the project was all about “collaboration”, now it is about “co-creation”. I have been struggling for over a year to discern the difference. I am just...
by Russell Maier | Feb 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
After a week of working on this email to my old mandala team I have just sent it out. I gladly share here also with you.—–It is with great joy that I say… “Bonjour!”This letter is being typed from a light, love and flower filled apartment in...
by Russell Maier | Feb 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
From Paris, I have begun work on the resurgence of the 1Mandala project. Somehow I find my self in a luminous moment to be able to rekindle and recraft the intention. I do so with not a little tepidation– knowing that each thought we put out creates, I am fully...
by Russell Maier | Feb 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
Last weekend Abby and I threw a Dutch/Canadian dinner party. We concocted a Canadian dish (maple syrup marinated salmon) and embellished it with Hollandaise sauce– a culinarily symbolic dish of us, andwhat we have to share with our friends. Tanya brought her...
by Russell Maier | Feb 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
Last night Abby and I caught a R&B Soul Concert Contest. Brune, a diminutive French woman who I met through my 1Mandala presentation back in October, was performing. The last time I had met her, we were both a little under the weather, and we sipped tea in a bar....