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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.

4th January 2010

Photo with 14 notes

The lovenest is the inspiration for the concept of THE NESTING PROJECT. This project is my ode to David and Sharon, and the teachings of Jivamukti Yoga School. It’s a convergence of community, creativity, and activism. It’s a great magic trick to motivate people to be inspired and to be active and activate! The ingredients are: using creativity to actualize a concept, by embarking on the journey of creating, not only will the individual be transformed as they discover their nest, but also, the concept will manifest in the group, and together we direct energy to build actual nests, or homes, for those who need them. It’s a beautiful shamanic ritual of transformation that happens for the individual and in turn, inspires the group, and ripples out to make a difference in the lives of others. materials: love poems, found lovebirds, antique paintings of krishna, radha, lucky cardinal bird, and asian style ink brush painting, prema May the owner of this nest find the delicious nectar of prema overflow always from within. Yoga is the divine union enacted by the love play of these two gods poetic discourse. Much in the way birds find materials to make nests, all materials are recycled, found objects, who’s original intention has been re-invented to build a homes for wild birds and for people. All proceeds raised from this project go towards Habitat for Humanity in Sri Lanka and the NYC Audubon to preserve the homes of wild birds in the five boroughs. May The Nesting Project be a place where all of our birds can come to nest. with love, avalove starting bid $250 Joanne Malino first bid with special thanks to the Jivamukti Yoga School, Carlos, Ayinde, Alice, Mark Nilson for devoting such creative energy to creating the enchanted forest, Andrea Klein, Liz Morina, Gary Lupton for photographing each and every nest, Eva, Meghan for writing an excellent press release, all of the amazing artists who created such fabulous work and have supported the nesting project, and all of you who are bidding on the fabulous art, and of course, Dechen Thurman.

The lovenest is the inspiration for the concept of THE NESTING PROJECT. This project is my ode to David and Sharon, and the teachings of Jivamukti Yoga School. It’s a convergence of community, creativity, and activism. It’s a great magic trick to motivate people to be inspired and to be active and activate!

The ingredients are: using creativity to actualize a concept, by embarking on the journey of creating, not only will the individual be transformed as they discover their nest, but also, the concept will manifest in the group, and together we direct energy to build actual nests, or homes, for those who need them. It’s a beautiful shamanic ritual of transformation that happens for the individual and in turn, inspires the group, and ripples out to make a difference in the lives of others.

materials: love poems, found lovebirds, antique paintings of krishna, radha, lucky cardinal bird, and asian style ink brush painting, prema

May the owner of this nest find the delicious nectar of prema overflow always from within. Yoga is the divine union enacted by the love play of these two gods poetic discourse.

Much in the way birds find materials to make nests, all materials are recycled, found objects, who’s original intention has been re-invented to build a homes for wild birds and for people.

All proceeds raised from this project go towards Habitat for Humanity in Sri Lanka and the NYC Audubon to preserve the homes of wild birds in the five boroughs.

May The Nesting Project be a place where all of our birds can come to nest.

with love, avalove

starting bid $250 Joanne Malino first bid

with special thanks to the Jivamukti Yoga School, Carlos, Ayinde, Alice, Mark Nilson for devoting such creative energy to creating the enchanted forest, Andrea Klein, Liz Morina, Gary Lupton for photographing each and every nest, Eva, Meghan for writing an excellent press release, all of the amazing artists who created such fabulous work and have supported the nesting project, and all of you who are bidding on the fabulous art, and of course, Dechen Thurman.

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