When I set up The Voice Project (Visionary Art) page on Facebook, I wrote a summary of the project which was a useful restatement of the ethos and my intentions. Here it is...
The Voice Project is a two year project from Bruce Rimell. It is an attempt to do several things, all at once.
1. To seek out, hear and experience the Visionary and Imaginal Voice of the Island of Britain from ancient times to the modern day, and to come to know it as an ally. This land wants its voice heard, but it wants to be asked. It will not give up its treasures freely, but seeks one who loves it. I am the asker and I am the lover.
2. To wind the Island of Britain into the wider Global Visionary Nexus like some kind of Crazy Magic Miller Man. This island has unique and powerful visionary treats to share with the new emerging culture, but for now the people are trailing behind other nations, cultures and landscapes.
3. To unite ancient and modern, rural and urban, magic-sacred and mundane-profane in one consciousness - mine/ours, I and the land unified - and come to know the soul of this land truly. To speak to an entire island and not be sent screaming into the hills. At least, not for more than a little while.
4. To sketch and sketch and paint and paint as the process unfolds, and to trust in this process as it unfolds, wherever and however it takes me. To become a vessel for that Voice.
5. To render all of this into a Grande Art Vision, worthy of the sacred and creative beauty that is this Island. Thirteen panels. Fifty feet across and six feet tall. A new Bayeaux Tapestry. Big task. [edit: it's now more likely to be thirty three feet across - format changes]
6. To exhibit that Grande Art Vision on this Island, and invite anyone and everyone to... Come And See...
The Voice Project is a two year project from Bruce Rimell. It is an attempt to do several things, all at once.
1. To seek out, hear and experience the Visionary and Imaginal Voice of the Island of Britain from ancient times to the modern day, and to come to know it as an ally. This land wants its voice heard, but it wants to be asked. It will not give up its treasures freely, but seeks one who loves it. I am the asker and I am the lover.
2. To wind the Island of Britain into the wider Global Visionary Nexus like some kind of Crazy Magic Miller Man. This island has unique and powerful visionary treats to share with the new emerging culture, but for now the people are trailing behind other nations, cultures and landscapes.
3. To unite ancient and modern, rural and urban, magic-sacred and mundane-profane in one consciousness - mine/ours, I and the land unified - and come to know the soul of this land truly. To speak to an entire island and not be sent screaming into the hills. At least, not for more than a little while.
4. To sketch and sketch and paint and paint as the process unfolds, and to trust in this process as it unfolds, wherever and however it takes me. To become a vessel for that Voice.
5. To render all of this into a Grande Art Vision, worthy of the sacred and creative beauty that is this Island. Thirteen panels. Fifty feet across and six feet tall. A new Bayeaux Tapestry. Big task. [edit: it's now more likely to be thirty three feet across - format changes]
6. To exhibit that Grande Art Vision on this Island, and invite anyone and everyone to... Come And See...
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