Mediated/Meditated Paint: Pauletta Chanco’s “The Sacred in Profane”
by Rico J. Reyes
Ohhhmmm. The verbal mantra of OM, spoken softly and repeatedly generates a sonic frequency to induce a state of disengagement with the material world while simultaneously engaging with the self. Used in the practice of meditation, OM, is believed to be the sound of creation in Vedic religions. This frequency is often used during chanting and meditative prayer to bring the spirit back to its point of creation. Seemingly a passive practice, meditation is an active engagement with the spirit, emotions, and thoughts. The practice of meditation is a realignment of priorities, priviledging the spirit and redefining its relationship to the material.
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EPIC: VISUALIZING HEROES WITHIN
This exhibition brings forth lofty ideas of how identity is expressed and negotiated as strategies on how we as a community can access our total selves through visualizing heroes within each of us. Our daily lives become examples of heroic deeds, recounted, retrospectively and in totality, it emerges as an epic. EPIC: Visualizing Heroes Within is an act of self-determination; it is an act of resistance; it is a negation of a negation; it is a dynamic, multivalent reflection on Queer Asian Pacific American viewpoints, identities, imagination, and desires.
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