Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Peace Post for 2011 - International Day of Peace

Today (21 September) is International Day of Peace. Fiona and I have this day highlighted in our diary for I'm sure it could float by unless we had a reminder. We usually mark it in some way: gonging our Japanese temple bell with the kanji script for peace inscribed on it; sending messages to people; making cards or cranes etc.

This year we started the day remembering the dedication of this world day; and we will gong the peace bell at sunset and spend a bit of time in reflective silence.

But a strange thing happened in the studio-garage on Sunday. I was finishing off my work for ALAW 2011. I had routed  the alphabet into an old square fence post but had done the letters in such a way that they created some words on four faces using the vowels once. The words were: Mindful, Pax, Joy and Be. I used the rest of the letters and a few decorative routed hatched squares to create a block border around the four sides of  the base.

I then embellished each face with bits of rust from 'the rust bank' to create four individual but connected faces. When it was time to take a few photos for posting on the ALAW 2011 blog I realised I had taken the photo below. As you can see on the two faces I had chosen randomly first were the words Be and Pax - be peace - a little bit spooky but such serendipity given that International Day of Peace was only a couple of days away.

So the post became Peace Post for 2011. The post is about 1400mm high and 150mm square.

Barry Smith © Peace Post for 2011 - be peace
Below are a few more photos of the Peace Post for 2011.

Barry Smith © Rust - Peace Post for 2011
Barry Smith © Peace Post for 2011 - be joy
Barry Smith © Rust - Peace Post for 2011
Barry Smith © Peace Post for 2011 - mindful joy
Barry Smith © Rust - Peace Post for 2011
Barry Smith © Peace Post for 2011 - mindful peace
Barry Smith © Rust - Peace Post for 2011
Wishing us all peace in our lives; may we join in continuing to send peace vibes when we can; and continue to stumble along on our peace journeys.

8 comments:

  1. Beautiful Barry! And thanks for the reminder, I'd forgotten about today.

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  2. wow!! that is an amazing piece of work and the rusted bits just adds so much character! i love the face of PAX ... the rusted motif the 3 little escutcheons are just gorgeous!! thank you for sharing today's "post" for PEACE. Happy World Peace to you and F too :)

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  3. Gorgeous! Wouldn't it be a wonder if we could all go in Peace. Such a place it would be. Such a treasure the world would give. Thanks for creating such a beautiful sculpture to inspires that dream of peace.

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  4. Lovely, it looks so magnificent standing there in your photos. Have a peaceful day.

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  5. MIA, L, SZQ & P - thank you for joining in a small circle of peace on this day. It was good that I stumbled my way onto the Peace Post - it will sit as an ongoing reminder for me on our block - jog the grey cells to think about peace and send a few vibes out. Go well and find and share peace. B

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  6. I love your Peace Post Barry - both of them. Thanks for reminding me of this day.

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  7. A wonderful post Barry, in both interpretations. Peace in our homes, peace in the world.... definitely to be prized.

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  8. TT & JM - thanks for joining in the peace vibe thing. TT - yes a little play on words. May we share a little peace when we can. Go well. B

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