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Art Georganna Pearce Malloff Print Cosmic Maypole Frame Signed Rare Original ‘77

$ 263.47

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    Description

    No problems or damage other than the glass is not present in the frame.
    Art Georganna Pearce Malloff 1977 Print Cosmic Maypole Framed Artist Signed Rare.
    This is the artists statement on the web:
    Georganna Pearce Malloff.
    "My evolution into a unitive vision of organic sculpture began when I settled in the redwood forest of Mendocino County in 1962.  My primary materials became themes of eros and paradise.  Explorations of environmental relationships between humanity and the cosmos led to the creation of sculpture gardens.  Influenced by Jungian concepts of individuation, the comparative mythologies of Joseph Campbell and the French traditions of sculpture, I aspired to infuse in the work a magical presence and, in the viewer, life-affirming energies through transformational symbols.
    In 1976 after a five-year retreat homesteading in a British Columbia Island, I became involved in the collective dynamics of group sculpture through carving the Cosmic Maypole Totem for the United Nations Conference on Habitat, Vancouver, British Columbia.  I am presently exploring sculptural forms of the four elements -- air, earth, water and fire --Ideally to become meditational fountains, energetic reflections on the wellsprings of the life force. "
    This is more about the artist from the World Dream Bank website:
    Cosmic Maypole
    Dreamed 1977 by Georganna Malloff
    HOW IT BEGAN
    The seed for this series of totem poles sprouted in Spring of 1976. I was meditating on maypoles, springtime, the ecstasy of dance, and community. It grew into a determination to carve a Cosmic Maypole, and
    that
    grew into a collective woodcarving project. That first Cosmic Maypole became the totem for the United Nations Conference on Habitat in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1977. Today it stands in the civic center of New Westminster, British Columbia. The pole is seventy feet tall.
    THE DREAMS
    In most of my work, images which come out of meditation often elicit dreams which clarify or enhance the other images. In this case, in the winter of 1977, I dreamed of animals like Mother Bear embracing humankind, mixtures of animal and human, like Pan and satyrs playing their pipes, and ancient gods like Triton blowing his horn. All the dancers, animals and humans and gods, even those who only watched and listened, were entwined with ribbons, as if we were all Morris dancers. (Here in Canada, the Celtic tradition is strong, and Morris dancing (a ritual spring dance) is very much alive.)
    Also in winter 1977, some psychics in Seattle gave me a story to illustrate. As the dream images arose, I found that they fit into the story, entitled Dreamwork of the Whales: a psychic transmission story of the re-creation of the world after the great catastrophe... with the enlightened human being [in a cave] and the 9 whale families and the rest of the animal kingdom.
    There is a progression from the sea to earth elements to the creatures of the sky. Here, dream, vision, meditation, and psychic transmission all came together.
    The pencil drawing below shows my dream. It took two months to complete, and is one of five made on a Canada Council grant. (Another, 'Beautiful Dreamer", was carved into a large marble panel and will be shown summer 2007 in the Monarch Butterfly Sculpture Garden near Olympia, Washington)