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"Meditative Play 1" 2018
       
     
"Meditative Play 1" 2018

Photos by Amy Darling

Onsite at the Zorthian Ranch

Meditative Plays are experiences to facilitate growth and exploration of themes and concepts directly related to individuals involved. The goal is not only to create a work that effects viewers but also shifts the present and personal experience and growth of participants. You may call it a ritual, a cleansing, a purging, a ceremony, a trial by fire, and ancestral need to play with something to further understand it...its a deeper approach that values experience over aesthetics and spirituality over quantification.

Gracie Joo
Fausto Renteria
josie j (DivineBrick)
Julia Zorthian
Maya Lila
Mary Quijano
Megan Wood

Caroline Zorthian
Nathan Debretsion
Robert Quijano
Small Drone Orchestra
Tara Zorthian
Sam Chivo Herrera
parenchyma

 The work was conceptualized in a vision inspired by an expecting Zorthian Ranch resident.  Surrounding her was her partner and close friend.  Participants were Zorthian ranch family, friends and residence of the ranch.  Also included were local arti
       
     

The work was conceptualized in a vision inspired by an expecting Zorthian Ranch resident. Surrounding her was her partner and close friend.

Participants were Zorthian ranch family, friends and residence of the ranch. Also included were local artist.

This was facilitated by divinebrick.

Participants were embodied forms of, water, nuclear forces, gravity, solar forces, etc, etc, for you to read.

This work culminated in plating of native plants and pollinators.

Included in this special work was one elder of the family.

Special Thanks to the expecting family and their growing love.

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