#realsaints

[ghostofatree]

The next set from the Book of Lapis is the close of the Meeting Saints project and the several pages of directionless ambling between projects that often arise in sketchbook. The first two are the ritual end of it where the ex voto were placed screwed into the walls on Jordan Street. There is a line from the Buddhist Puja that says “I make offerings at all the holy places and places in which the Bodhisattvas have been” that underpins a lot of my thinking re my pilgrimage projects and let me close this by going to honour the saints in situ. @spells_against_civilisation and I even got a pull from the police while we putting the work up despite us having permission and the festival having been fully licensed by @sullivan_pamela We used the Intervention of Saints to convince them not to arrest to but to join in with the project. The night before several of the ceramic outcomes had been taken - I never knew by whom but I simply replaced them with the gold acetate versions. Following these are some random collage and the start of summer holiday which was a wander around Southport and a pint with Antoinette - who appeared in a vision as a continuous line squiggle #sketchbook #drawing #drawingsketch #nostalgia #memories #liverpoollightnight #saints #realsaints #blessings #beautifulpeople #humangood #queerartist #liverpoolartist #performanceart #inthepresenceofgreatness #hagiography #ceramic (at Jordan Street) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn2HzdZszO-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rohidasdeore]

🙏💐🙏💐🙏💐🙏💐🙏💐🙏💐🙏

संत मिलन को चलिए तज माया अभिमान,

जो जो पग आगे धरे होवे यज्ञ समान |

Real Saint

#SaintRampalJiMaharaj

#SaintRampalJi

#KabirisGod

#RealSaint

🙏💐🙇🙏💐🙇🙏💐🙇🙏💐🙇🙏💐

[gulshandas123]

🌹हरि सेवा युग चार हैं ,गुरु सेवा पल एक।

तासु पटंतर न तुले , संतन किया विवेक।।🌹

— Saint Rampal Ji Maharaj🌺

#SaintRampalJi #KabirIsGod #RealSaint #Guru 🍁

[saintsaddiction]

This Is Saints Giving 1 Table 1 Man 1 Day Once a Month for 1 Hour it's This Simple - Grab All Your Old Clothes - Food Donated by Ocha Thai and an Open Heart The Rest is Just Giving from a Saint to The Needy!!! BIG THANKS to Our Volunteers Old and New and Some That Come Even When The Don't LIVE Here!!! www.SaintsGiving.com @SaintsGiving We Do What We Can with What We Have!!! #SaintsGiving #SaintsAddiction #Volunteers #WeCanAllBeSaints #BeASaint #Donations #BeASaintAndDonate #WeAreOne #RealSaints #LoveIsTheAnswer #Giving #Grateful #Helpful #FreeFoodPicnic #FoodBank #ChurchOfLove #HelpThoseInNeed #DonateDirectly #Saints #FeedTheHomeless #SecondSaturdays #Saint #BlessedBeyondBelief #BeAGiver #WearAHalo #BeTheChangeYouWishToSeeInTheWorld - www.fb.com/SaintsGiving on FB & Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BsjuJ3_lLe28PX1Io0sDj3wSDDL3ZnCzSMw8Hk0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mzewjkqcf4f2

[sewasingh0001]

🔸गरीब, जल थल पृथ्वी गगन में बाहर भीतर एक।

पूर्ण ब्रह्म कबीर है, अविगत पुरुष अलेख ।।🔸

— Saint Rampal Ji Maharaj ☺️🌹

⭐#SaintRampalJi #KabirIsGod #RealSaint ⭐

[qbert78]

#REALSAINTS #THEREALDEAL the Lord is good. This kid dance it into his shoe came off. Fell, got back up and praise him again lol. Now that's real

[ghostofatree]

This selection from the Book of Lapis was one of the highlights of the Meeting Saints project for me. There had been a constant stream of people kindly volunteering to do this project, many of them my students at the time and many strangers. The results were beautiful and different from each person. The format was that I would photograph them while I interviewed them and then make an offering of incense or water (which are traditionally offered in Buddhist practice in honour of Bodhisattvas or Buddha’s). The Rhythm had been pretty stable until (the decidedly Jesus-like) Saint Heksen of Estonia arrived and sat for his portrait shot. Before we began the offerings part he reached into his bag and made an offering to me of some incense he was carrying. The symbolism was so fortunate in line with what I was doing and I suddenly thought, “woah, a real one! He spent the time discussing accessing higher forms of consciousness and then spoke to the students and started discussing really profound stuff too. I couldn’t have planned it better and got a shot of him expounding the Dharma with the halo behind him. This is his finished ex-Voto, his portrait, one of him actually handing me the incense where I look bemused and slightly monkey-faced, him teaching the faithful and expounding some holy truths. #sketchbook #drawing #drawingsketch #nostalgia #memories #liverpoollightnight #saints #realsaints #blessings #beautifulpeople #humangood #queerartist #liverpoolartist #performanceart #inthepresenceofgreatness #hagiography #ceramic (at Jordan Street) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnw5qWXsASx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ghostofatree]

Today’s post from the Book of Lapis continues the Meeting Saints project. It opens with some of the finished ex-votos arrayed together and then Saint Colin of Milton Keynes and Saint Mummy of Sefton Park, (again on re-fired ceramic tiles for Jordan Street). After this are several more pages of process shots of loosing the light. A portable spotlight would have been one answer to this practical problem. Next were some pages of notes from the meetings. Finally, a test print on acetate with gold spray paint behind. These were used when the saint icons were taken by passers by. I didn’t see that as theft, or even a problem and liked the idea that some saints may find homes in other people’s houses without me knowing but chose to replace them with these ghost versions (as though the holiness of the saint remained even after their physical form disappeared). To reiterate, my reclaiming of the halo as a symbol was a political comment on how the hierarchy of churches and institutions get to decide who is worthy (and thus by implication, who are not - usually such as LGBTQ people) So the reclaiming of the halo was for me initially a subversion of Christian hierarchical hegemony. By deciding that each person was a saint it rejected the concept of original sin and hence the need for redemption by blood and took the Buddhist stance that every living being, far from being stained by original sin, in fact has the seed of Buddha nature in them, ready to blossom. This view sees that from the very beginning all beings are perfect and are only clouded by delusion, (from whence suffering arises). What amazed me about this project was the performance of meeting passers-by as saints conferred a huge unexpected emotional blessing on me myself, where I felt I had actually met saints. It was kind of overwhelming and joyful. Some comments from the saints almost brought me to tears. #sketchbook #drawing #drawingsketch #nostalgia #memories #lightnightliverpool #saints #performanceart #blessings #beautifulpeoples #myhonour #realsaints #queerartist #liverpoolartist #streetartfestival #howbeautiful #goodpeople #ceramics (at Jordan Street) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnpKTeQse2S/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ghostofatree]

The Book of Lapis continues with the third set from the Meeting Saints performance. Like I said previously I found this set of work very rewarding because I had intended to gently make a point about hierarchy but opened a door for me to experience these glimpses of human goodness (which philosophically I already knew were Buddha nature but hadn’t had the chance to glimpse them in a flurry of person after person). I found the experience beautiful from my side so I hope that translates into the work. On the learning side I had bought a new camera for this event but not ordered it in time to become really familiar with it so as the day pressed into evening and the performance started there were only a few hours of radiant light left and gradually it came to photographing in the dark. The flash was too stark and some of the darker images, although I’m glad I did them were too dark to work on the decals for ceramic. One lives and learns. Here are Saints Kitty and Phil, the photos here were not record the actual outcomes but that I had screwed then to the walls of Jordan Street so each had two small screws through the top. After that are the interview photographs of both saints and then other saints and an example of some of the interview notes I was recording while speaking to the saints. As the photos got darker the work was really glowing so I continued because I was feeling so blessed by this point but even these would not have been possible without the intervention of Saint Bronek who stepped down a stairway of seven clouds to earth when I needed divine intervention to show me how the light meter was going wrong #sketchbook #drawing #drawingsketch #nostalgia #memories #liverpoollightnight #saints #realsaints #blessings #beautifulpeople #humangood #queerartist #liverpoolartist #performanceart #inthepresenceofgreatness #hagiography #ceramic (at Jordan Street) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnmrhWZMpVa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ghostofatree]

Yesterday’s post from the Book of Lapis was the start of the Meeting Saints project. Today I open with the finished ex-voto to two of them, Saint Lizzy of Crosby and Saint Ann of Glasgow, who had suffered the “creeping of the glaze”, (resulting in the distortion of the image and the round bubbles on the surface- despite this her faith remained strong). They were on re-fired ceramic tiles that matched the red brick of the local vernacular around Jordan Street. The photo images were decal printed onto the tiles and fired as glaze. This was done by the kindness and blessings of Saint Richard, Protector of the Kiln. After this are several pages of process shots which I took to start the the interviews off, with a page of notes of what I needed to gather for the performance. My reclaiming of the halo as a symbol was a political comment on how the hierarchy of churches and institutions get to decide who is worthy (and thus by implication, who are not - usually such as LGBTQ people) So the reclaiming of the halo was for me initially a subversion of Christian hierarchical hegemony. By deciding that each person was a saint it rejected the concept of original sin and hence the need for redemption by blood and took the Buddhist stance that every living being, far from being stained by original sin, in fact has the seed of Buddha nature in them, ready to blossom. This view sees that from the very beginning all beings are perfect and are only clouded by delusion, (from whence suffering arises). What amazed me about this project was the performance of meeting passers-by as saints conferred a huge unexpected emotional blessing on me myself, where I felt I had actually met saints. It was kind of overwhelming and joyful. The comments from each person almost brought me to tears. This first plate is just one example how beautiful that was. #sketchbook #drawing #drawingsketch #nostalgia #memories #lightnightliverpool #saints #performanceart #blessings #beautifulpeoples #myhonour #realsaints #queerartist #liverpoolartist #streetartfestival #howbeautiful #goodpeople #ceramics (at Jordan Street) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnUo2mHMU1G/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rohidasdeore]

🙏💐🙏💐🙏💐🙏💐🙏💐🙏💐🙏

संत मिलन को चलिए तज माया अभिमान,

जो जो पग आगे धरे होवे यज्ञ समान |🥰🥰

Real Saint

#SaintRampalJiMaharaj

#SaintRampalJi

#KabirisGod

#RealSaint

🙏💐🙇🙏💐🙇🙏💐🙇🙏💐🙇🙏💐🙏

[ghostofatree]

The next set from the Book of Lapis is the close of the Meeting Saints project and the several pages of directionless ambling between projects that often arise in sketchbook. The first two are the ritual end of it where the ex voto were placed screwed into the walls on Jordan Street. There is a line from the Buddhist Puja that says “I make offerings at all the holy places and places in which the Bodhisattvas have been” that underpins a lot of my thinking re my pilgrimage projects and let me close this by going to honour the saints in situ. @spells_against_civilisation and I even got a pull from the police while we putting the work up despite us having permission and the festival having been fully licensed by @sullivan_pamela We used the Intervention of Saints to convince them not to arrest to but to join in with the project. The night before several of the ceramic outcomes had been taken - I never knew by whom but I simply replaced them with the gold acetate versions. Following these are some random collage and the start of summer holiday which was a wander around Southport and a pint with Antoinette - who appeared as a continuous line squiggle #sketchbook #drawing #drawingsketch #nostalgia #memories #liverpoollightnight #saints #realsaints #blessings #beautifulpeople #humangood #queerartist #liverpoolartist #performanceart #inthepresenceofgreatness #hagiography #ceramic (at Jordan Street Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBlD4GSAdkV/?igshid=1a04nzctr885b

[ghostofatree]

This selection from the Book of Lapis was one of the highlights of the Meeting Saints project for me. There had been a constant stream of people kindly volunteering to do this project, many of them my students at the time and many strangers. The results were beautiful and different from each person. The format was that I would photograph them while I interviewed them and then make an offering of incense or water (which are traditionally offered in Buddhist practice in honour of Bodhisattvas or Buddha’s). The Rhythm had been pretty stable until (the decidedly Jesus-like) Saint Heksen of Estonia arrived and sat for his portrait shot. Before we began the offerings part he reached into his bag and made an offering to me of some incense he was carrying. The symbolism was so fortunate in line with what I was doing and I suddenly thought, “wohh, a real one! He spent the time discussing accessing higher forms of consciousness and then spoke to the students and started discussing really profound stuff too. I couldn’t have planned it better and got a shot of him expounding the Dharma with the halo behind him. This is his finished ex-Voto, his portrait, one of him actually handing me the incense where I look bemused and slightly monkey-faced, him teaching the faithful and expounding some holy truths. #sketchbook #drawing #drawingsketch #nostalgia #memories #liverpoollightnight #saints #realsaints #blessings #beautifulpeople #humangood #queerartist #liverpoolartist #performanceart #inthepresenceofgreatness #hagiography #ceramic (at Jordan Street Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBiw3Vgg1aN/?igshid=tn5ax94v8pw9

[ghostofatree]

Today’s post from the Book of Lapis continues the Meeting Saints project. It opens with some of the finished ex-votos arrayed together and then Saint Colin of Milton Keynes and Saint Mummy of Sefton Park, (again on re-fired ceramic tiles for Jordan Street). After this are several more pages of process shots of loosing the light. A portable spotlight would have been one answer to this practical problem. Next were some pages of notes from the meetings. Finally, a test print on acetate with gold spray paint behind. These were used when the saint icons were taken by passers by. I didn’t see that as theft, or even a problem and liked the idea that some saints may find homes in other people’s houses without me knowing but chose to replace them with these ghost versions (as though the holiness of the saint remained even after their physical form disappeared). To reiterate, my reclaiming of the halo as a symbol was a political comment on how the hierarchy of churches and institutions get to decide who is worthy (and thus by implication, who are not - usually such as LGBTQ people) So the reclaiming of the halo was for me initially a subversion of Christian hierarchical hegemony. By deciding that each person was a saint it rejected the concept of original sin and hence the need for redemption by blood and took the Buddhist stance that every living being, far from being stained by original sin, in fact has the seed of Buddha nature in them, ready to blossom. This view sees that from the very beginning all beings are perfect and are only clouded by delusion, (from whence suffering arises). What amazed me about this project was the performance of meeting passers-by as saints conferred a huge unexpected emotional blessing on me myself, where I felt I had actually met saints. It was kind of overwhelming and joyful. Some comments from the saints almost brought me to tears. #sketchbook #drawing #drawingsketch #nostalgia #memories #lightnightliverpool #saints #performanceart #blessings #beautifulpeoples #myhonour #realsaints #queerartist #liverpoolartist #streetartfestival #howbeautiful #goodpeople #ceramics (at Jordan Street Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBifDy2AQ1T/?igshid=1m0ajzxo24r3b

[ghostofatree]

The Book of Lapis continues with the third set from the Meeting Saints performance. Like I said yesterday I found this set of work very rewarding because I had intended to gently make a point about hierarchy but opened a door for me to experience these glimpses of human goodness which philosophically I already knew were Buddha nature but hadn’t had the chance to glimpse them in a flurry of person after person. I found the experience beautiful from my side so I hope that translates into the work. On the learning side I had bought a new camera for this event but not ordered it in time to become really familiar with it so as the day pressed into evening and the performance started there were only a few hours of radiant light left and gradually it came to photographing in the dark. The flash was too stark and some of the darker images, although I’m glad I did them were too dark to work on the decals for ceramic. One lives and learns. Here are Saints Kitty and Phil, the photos here were not record the actual outcomes but that I had screwed then to the walls of Jordan Street so each had two small screws through the top. After that are the interview photographs of both saints and then other saints and an example of some of the interview notes I was recording while speaking to the saints. As the photos got darker the work was really glowing so I continued because I was feeling so blessed by this point but even these would not have been possible without the intervention of Saint Bronek who stepped down a stairway of seven clouds to earth when I needed divine intervention to show me how the light meter was going wrong #sketchbook #drawing #drawingsketch #nostalgia #memories #liverpoollightnight #saints #realsaints #blessings #beautifulpeople #humangood #queerartist #liverpoolartist #performanceart #inthepresenceofgreatness #hagiography #ceramic (at Jordan Street Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBfx5_7ADgM/?igshid=1h2nvolj0eh47

[ghostofatree]

Yesterday’s post from the Book of Lapis was the start of the Meeting Saints project. Today I open with the finished ex-voto to two of them, Saint Lizzy of Crosby and Saint Ann of Glasgow, who had suffered the “creeping of the glaze”, (resulting in the distortion of the image and the round bubbles on the surface- despite this her faith remained strong). They were on re-fired ceramic tiles that matched the red brick of the local vernacular around Jordan Street. The photo images were decal printed onto the tiles and fired as glaze. This was done by the kindness and blessings of Saint Richard, Protector of the Kiln. After this are several pages of process shots which I took to start the the interviews off, with a page of notes of what I needed to gather for the performance. My reclaiming of the halo as a symbol was a political comment on how the hierarchy of churches and institutions get to decide who is worthy (and thus by implication, who are not - usually such as LGBTQ people) So the reclaiming of the halo was for me initially a subversion of Christian hierarchical hegemony. By deciding that each person was a saint it rejected the concept of original sin and hence the need for redemption by blood and took the Buddhist stance that every living being, far from being stained by original sin, in fact has the seed of Buddha nature in them, ready to blossom. This view sees that from the very beginning all beings are perfect and are only clouded by delusion, (from whence suffering arises). What amazed me about this project was the performance of meeting passers-by as saints conferred a huge unexpected emotional blessing on me myself, where I felt I had actually met saints. It was kind of overwhelming and joyful. The comments from each person almost brought me to tears. This first plate is just one example how beautiful that was. #sketchbook #drawing #drawingsketch #nostalgia #memories #lightnightliverpool #saints #performanceart #blessings #beautifulpeoples #myhonour #realsaints #queerartist #liverpoolartist #streetartfestival #howbeautiful #goodpeople #ceramics (at Jordan Street Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBdRkdFgnmZ/?igshid=1fnd4ijw41zcj