INVISIBLE THREADS
......hawn riha ta' busbies, u x-xemx nizlet, bil-kwiet f'daqqa, ghax
daqqu u tmienja, u erghba minuti, (ezatt kif ghidtli hux?),
qed tara kif kellek ragun?, u qed tmellisli n-nokkli, ghax ghogbitek rihithom, u qaghduli sbieh illum....
Following an absence of nearly a year Le Salon (Is-Salott) is back, this time in partnership with Cafe Compasion.
The next event is scheduled to be held in early 2013, (given, that we
have all survived 2012 J), possibly end January/mid February. The dates
are tentative because, this time round, Is-Salott, is taking a more
organic, inductive stance, spring-boarded as it were, by 8 wonderful
poems penned by Salonniere Miriam Calleja.
Having been
approached by Miriam, Le Salon, decided to let her poems launch a
patchwork quilt of interconnected filaments, one inspiring the other to
create a multimedia Gestalt or weave of connected, emotive meaning. Thus
we are inviting prospective participants, Salonnieres and artists (both
embryonic or established) to actively bring the next Salon into
fruition by your creative collaboration. Therefore, may we tempt you to
carry out some happy homework, by diving deep into your individual
essences to bear much collective fruit.
The over-riding theme
to the next Salon, is REDEMPTION and the shift in consciousness from a
an increasingly redundant paradigm of redemption through pain, guilt and
blind suffering, to one of awareness, an alchemical transformation via
the heart and spirit.
Miriam Calleja's poems speak of
unrequited love, waiting and the pain of loss, sifting through the
debris of relationships for meaning but also of moments in time simply
captured; arresting tableaux vivants of impermanence. When she
approached Le Salon with the desire to share her virgin scribblings in
the Maltese langue, her initial collaboration of choice was to juxtapose
her poems with the earthy and base chakra coloured paintings of an
artist’s work she had singled out. However, stimulated by the title of
her proposed exhibition: ‘Invisible Threads’, Le Salon decided to
literally interpret this phrase and create a sort of live installation,
whereby different media would be actually inter-connected by a spider
web of transparent ‘string/wire’ . Therefore, in the physical realm; a
poem might be suspended and ‘fastened’ in 3-D to a painting, which would
in turn be linked to a recorded filmic representation, the projection
of which; would be triggered by a participant pulling or ‘tripping’ on a
plastic wire.
So far the reaction to Miriam’s poems has
mushroomed out of its own accord. Petia Zasheva, a Bulgarian artist and
dress designer (who as part of a graduation thesis presented a ‘live’
paper doll enactment of a Japanese adaptation of Anna Karenina), became,
through a chance encounter, one of the first to jump enthusiastically
aboard. Her rendering of Miriam Callejas poems will feature 8
‘actresses’, in different rooms throughout the salon, costumed in paper,
interpreting and acting out each poem individually. A musician friend
of Petia’s ,in turn, was so taken by the possibility of the imagery
evident in Miriam’s poems that he has decided to compose music
especially for the occasion. Another collaboration, involves a tattoo
artist, who will be tattooing on site, and who only accepts clients,
whose tattoos represent, the pictorial indelible acknowledgement of a
rite of passage, a difficulty overcome, an act of redemption recorded.
So dear potential Salonniere, we invite you to don your creative hats
and become the next Salon. Do the poems trigger any itching impulse to
put pen to paper, pick up a brush, choreograph a dance, stretch your
vocal chords, play a note, capture a shot, film a sequence, recount a
story? You might decide instead to focus on how love in all its myriad
expressions and muses has redeemed a difficult moment of transition. The
choice is yours.
This is what one friend and participant was moved to share on the subject:
“I too reject what my ‘religion’ has taught me - suffer and you are
reserved a ‘place in heaven’. I reject it because life doesn't work that
way with regards to material rewards. Material rewards come from hard
work, strong drive etc. It does however apply itself very well to the
inner workings of our ego.
I have suffered in life and I have
had to work very hard, but most of this work has been inner, and when I
look back I see that it has served me well.
In retrospect, I
see that I was arrogant, I absorbed a lot of junk regarding the world
and my relationships to it in growing up. I didn't know or realise that
my word and attitude affected others, I hardly knew that my actions
could hurt or the possible extent of that hurt. Simultaneously, I was
also getting hurt and going through long processes of healing to come to
terms or learn from it properly.
Meanwhile life goes on and I
have learned much, I like who I have become and have a good amount of
self respect and love. When I am respecting and loving myself, I feel a
part of me vibrating at a very high vibration on a happy and creative
level and that's where my art comes from ~ a place within where
everything is healed, with no past and future and where all can be
created, unfolded.
Had I not suffered I wouldn't be here. And
the here I am at is shouting to the world "I want to create!" I want to
create, this is all I want to do right now. Unlike anything else I have
turned my hand to this feels like its growing, vibrating in my core,
overflowing into my body and through my hands by whatever media I
choose.
Pain has its reasons and self love is the redemption.”
This is a personal, reflective and heartfelt, very individual response.
Yours may and will probably be different. We would like to hear, see,
feel, sense and smell how you too have redeemed, have been redeemed or
will redeem a particular issue in your life.
We are all connected, so let us celebrate these interdependent threads that link our hearts and beings.
Make yourself a cuppa or two, have a good think and then contact
lesalonmalta@gmail.com with what you will bring to this table, let us
know how you would like to collaborate and be part of the next Salon,
and how you have been inspired by the poems and/or leitmotif (theme).
Café Compasion will be preparing a feast-up of earthy and
healthaliscious delights to stimulate the senses and complement the
theme.
Miriam Calleja’s poems can be sent in a separate attachment
For further info you may peruse:
Les Salon: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Le-Salon-Is-Salott-an-innovative-form-of-socialising/224610140943822?ref=ts&fref=ts
Le Salon Blog: http://lesalonmalta.blogspot.co.uk/
www.cafecompasion.com and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Caf%C3%A9Compasi%C3%B3n/302839013154068?ref=ts&fref=ts (a page of RawFood Malta - https://www.facebook.com/rawfood.malta?fref=ts)
