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the nesting project
a group installation

Jivamukti Cafe at the Jivamukti Yoga School
841 Broadway, 2nd floor
December 2009, deadline extended January 15 2010

Inspired by the teachings of David Life and Sharon Gannon, we come together as a community to enrich the creative culture by yoking it with the force of spiritual activism to make a difference in the lives of others.

Artists explore this concept by creating nests similar to the way birds gather objects to build a home. The nests will be on silent auction until January 14, 2010 to raise funds to build actual homes for those animals and humans displaced.

All proceeds will go to HABITAT FOR HUMANITY in Sri Lanka, to aid families without homes still from the Tsunami in 2004, and those living in relief camps in the wake of the Sri Lankan civil war and the NY Audubon, a grassroots community interested in the preservation of wild birds and their habitats in the five boroughs of Manhattan.

28th December 2009

Photo

Neala Rafizadeh (b. 1976) Iranian-born, Midwest-raised, New York-trained psychiatrist whose own personal nest is still a work in progress. Errant Nest (14”x6.5”x3.5” acrylic paint on salvaged wood, glass, metal, photo transparency, found objects) This shadow box nest is a chance meeting of cultures, mothers, daughters, spirituality, and superstition which might be gathered on a life path or life migration.

Neala Rafizadeh (b. 1976)
Iranian-born, Midwest-raised, New York-trained psychiatrist whose own personal nest is still a work in progress.


Errant Nest
(14”x6.5”x3.5” acrylic paint on salvaged wood, glass, metal, photo transparency, found objects)
This shadow box nest is a chance meeting of cultures, mothers, daughters, spirituality, and superstition which might be gathered on a life path or life migration.

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