Exodus Series of Paintings

The Exodus series paintings are concerned with the experience of higher awareness and spiritual revelation that results from the movement of peoples throughout the world. In these powerful paintings we see groups of seemingly displaced and anonymous peoples moving though landscapes that are hauntingly familiar and yet foreign at the same time. The landscapes seem to be moving and changing along…

Wild and Beautiful Nature

Artist Statement My daily work is a mix between creating visual effects and photographing nature. The two things are seemingly at odds and yet I find them to be a wonderful balance. Visual effects is about bringing someone's imagination to life, quite often creating things that are straight out of a dream. By definition, we are trying to create that which does not exist. For me, photographing…

Spring | Summer 2014

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Cultural Transformation: Building a Partnership World

Can we build a world where our great potentials for consciousness, caring and creativity are realized? What would this more equitable, less violent world look like? How can we build it? These questions animated my research over the past four decades. They arose very early in my life, when my parents and I narrowly escaped from Nazi Europe. Had we not been able to flee my native Vienna and…

A Grand Strategy for Evolving a New World

Humanity has entered the most extraordinary transition in the evolution of our species. The outcome will be a new human—a new version of the species, genetically and in terms of capabilities. This is not the first time that fundamental change has catapulted life into a dramatically different space. In fact, this shift, although the largest and fastest of all shifts (as far as we know), is…

Community-Supported Economy

In February, 55 bookstores with names like Oblong, Whale of a Tale, Innisfree, Odyssey, Yellow Brick Road and Wild Rumpus each received grants of between $2,000 and $15,000 from bestselling author James Patterson. This was the first round of a million dollars in grants to independent bookstores from Patterson, earmarked for a wide variety of projects ranging from the replacement of worn store…

Ecosophy: Nature’s Guide to a Better World

Storytelling The most exciting and beneficial things I believe happened to humanity in the past century were physicists’ recognition that “the universe is more like a great thought than like a great machine”1 and astronauts lifting far enough from Earth to see, feel and show us how very much alive our planet is. Those events led to a wonderful sea change from the older—and rather…

The Emerging New Story

Dear Friends, This was another one of those times that I had to wait. Waiting until two days before deadline to be inspired can be somewhat distressing, but I have learned to wait in silence until inspiration emerges. Last week I received a video of an “Emergent Universe Oratorio” and found myself immersed in an inspiring synergy of the arts that told the story of the universe in music, poetry…

Human Watershed: The Emerging Politics of Bioregional Democracy

The Crisis Downstream: Waiting For A Rainy Day First, the bad news. Our global community no longer has the luxury of putting off its complex problems till a later time. Mounting data on Earth’s atmosphere confirm what is already known in daily life: the planet is warming and water is becoming less accessible. Water scarcity is the result of climate change, diminished rainfall, overpopulation,…

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible

Review by Bayo Akomolafe The reader should be aware that this is not your typical review. As a world-weary academic, disillusioned by the failed promises of the ivory tower and its pretensions to inevitability, I think I know full well how reviews ought to proceed. Little wonder Steve Wasserman wrote in the Columbia Journalism Review, “The pabulum that passes for most reviews is an insult to…