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.
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| Barry Smith © Peace Post for 2011 - be peace |
Below are a few more photos of the
Peace Post for 2011.
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| Barry Smith © Rust - Peace Post for 2011 |
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| Barry Smith © Peace Post for 2011 - be joy |
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| Barry Smith © Rust - Peace Post for 2011 |
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| Barry Smith © Peace Post for 2011 - mindful joy |
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| Barry Smith © Rust - Peace Post for 2011 |
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| Barry Smith © Peace Post for 2011 - mindful peace |
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| 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.
Beautiful Barry! And thanks for the reminder, I'd forgotten about today.
ReplyDeletewow!! 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 :)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! 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.
ReplyDeleteLovely, it looks so magnificent standing there in your photos. Have a peaceful day.
ReplyDeleteMIA, 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
ReplyDeleteI love your Peace Post Barry - both of them. Thanks for reminding me of this day.
ReplyDeleteA wonderful post Barry, in both interpretations. Peace in our homes, peace in the world.... definitely to be prized.
ReplyDeleteTT & 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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