by Russell Maier | Feb 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
GeoTagged, [N48.86877, W2.39000]Paris! Here I am. Wandering the streets of this great city, I can’t quite beleive that this is where I am living. Quelle vie! Our apartment is surrounded by a vast array of fantastic amenities– a dance studio, a bakery,...
by Russell Maier | Feb 3, 2010 | - Mandalas
My lover and I have moved in to our new apartment in Paris! Wow. What a pleasure to be able to type those words! It was such a great pleasure that Abby and I could not hold back celebrating. The very day we moved in, we threw our housewarming party! It was a...
by Russell Maier | Jan 31, 2010 | Uncategorized
GeoTagged, [N48.88260, W2.35890]Last weekend it was a good bye party. This weekend it is an apartment warming party. Abby and I are calling it a celebration of Love and Health. We’ve invited all our Parisiene friends and used the opportunity to share and be part...
by Russell Maier | Jan 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
GeoTagged, [N51.50538, W0.20931]It’s not everday you can say this: “Today I have moved to Paris!” My first Parisienne day began waking up into my dream: My beautiful lover beside me, the bustling Paris streets, and a visit to the Mandala of mandalas:...
by Russell Maier | Jan 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
The anchor is up! My boat is out of the comfortable harbour and into the uncharted seas.I write this on the plane cruising at 35,000 ft to London. I am listening to the same music that I listened to when I set out from Smithers on my bike an epoque ago.Flying in a...
by Russell Maier | Jan 26, 2010 | - Mandalas, movie
Here’s a little video on the making of the community mandala with my Church here in Ottawa. The Church choir did the soundtrack with the kids. If you’re reading this on Facebook here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSLfSZKk-s4This project with...
by Russell Maier | Jan 23, 2010 | simple series
This little painting was made on a cigar box over the last month here in Ottawa. I have been apart from my lover and her from I. She has been on my heart, just as I have been on hers. And on both our minds have been on our dream. It is balanced and united in such a...
by Russell Maier | Jan 21, 2010 | - Mandalas
Yesterday, I joined the reverend of my Church here in Ottawa, to lead a mandala workshop at a woman’s shelter downtown. We both didn’t quite know what to expect. The shelter had recently burned down and the women were staying in a secondary building...
by Russell Maier | Jan 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
Alright! I am really proud to share this one. Here is the final version of the mandala that I have been working on with my old family Church here in Ottawa. We’ve been working on it together for the last month and a half.Its a co-creation with everybody in my...
by Russell Maier | Jan 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
Alright! I mention in my last post that I have a lot of creativity brewing… and Creations to share! This little video I completed a week or so ago. Its for my application for a Canada Council Grant. These grants are very prestigious here in Canada and...
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