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"Chaco Lilies" by Susan Slotter, 30% of proceeds benefit project
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Item Description
"Chaco Lilies"
18" x 25" Sepia Photograph
The photograph is also available as a 26" x 35" print (31" x 40" framed) for $12,500. Please contact if you are interested in the larger size photograph.
Throughout history, people have gone to the desert to meet divinity.
to a vision and a call. Her journey into the unknown led her to the
Four Corners Desert in the American Southwest, from which SoulScapes
emerged — landscapes of the soul through the alchemy of image.
Through a twenty-five year healing and spiritual journey, laced with
extraordinary synchronicity and grace, interwoven bodies of SoulScapes
images emerged evocative of the unity/the one-connection of all
things.
For the first twelve years of her photographic career, Susan created
layered images by meticulously sandwiching two pieces of film
together. This created a vehicle for the archetypal, collective
unconscious to become visible in images. She began a series of
layering images in a bolder way – running film through the camera,
and in a different time and location, reloading and shooting the same
roll. The end results – still two images from different times and
places layered together – contain the additional element of
randomness, or “grace.” Thus the title for this series
originating in Chaco – Images of Grace.
From 2002 to 2007, Susan made repeated pilgrimages to Chaco Culture
Historic National Park in New Mexico. Dating back a thousand years,
Chaco was an extraordinary spiritual center of the ancient Anasazi
culture, and remains a sacred site and spiritual vortex today. For
Susan, Chaco feels like a place that links our past and our future,
containing “wisdom that reaches back to all knowledge and beyond to
all possibilities.”
Robert Redford narrates a wonderful film by Anna Sofaer titled The
Mystery of Chaco Canyon.
Fine Art Photographer
Filmmaker
Writer
Integrative Creative Consultant/Midwife
"In the beginning... God said, let there be light. And there was light." In the beginning, a young woman left the corporate world to become an artist, with an expressed desire to "nurture life and the soul, create growth inspiration and freedom within herself and others, and contribute to a planet of community and peace." Susan's first medium became photography, "writing with light." She became an alchemist at capturing, portraying, translating Essence on film. An early image, Light Being, was highly published in magazines across the country and cracked open her life as an artist.
Susan has created interrelated bodies of images called SoulScapes destined for books and films. A partial list of the many holistic and other diverse venues which have featured SoulScapes images in solo exhibitions, publications and presentations include: Wheeler Opera House, Aspen Wellness Center, the Omega Institute, the Fetzer Institute, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, The Sun Magazine, Yoga Journal, Gnosis, Creation Spirituality, Element Books, Camera and Darkroom, Popular Photography, Photo District News, Advertising Age, Santa Fe TREND/Architecture & Design, United Airlines Destinations, Maine Photographic Workshops, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, and Hasselblad USA.
Susan's life and work can be described as a poem and prayer. Her work in all its forms evolves from her spirtual healing transformational journey, containing powerful evocation and catalytic energy for others in theirs. Suzuki Roshi's quote affirms one of many messages at the core of the Light Being:
Each of us must make our own true way,
And when we do,
that way will express the universe.
Suzuki Roshi
Susan has a remarkable gift of helping others to bring forth their creative visions and dreams – which she has offered in the forms of photography/soul journey workshops, portraits, soul guide, and integrative consultant/midwife for a myriad of diverse creative projects, including films such as Mining the Unconscious (Marcelina Martin), She Had Some Horses (Donna Wells), Looking for Mr. Stieglitz (Steve Zeifman), and the book How Do You Pray? (Celeste Yacoboni).
Susan wrote when she left the corporate world that she was passionate about "promoting people, projects and causes she believes in." 25 years later, this is still what she says and does, adding that the biggest cause she believes in is creating a world that promotes the thriving of the whole and each and every one of its parts.
Twenty five years after leaving the corporate world to become an artist, Susan is working on an umbrella susanslotter.com website. While in process, she returns to the Light in the beginning of the journey with her Light Being photograph – one piece of, and representative of, the whole. In the mid 90's, upon request by exhibit viewers, Susan crafted the Light Being into a fine art poster; like a treasure that has been buried under the sea, the exquisite reproduction from the original printing is now available to the last several hundred purchasers.
http://www.susanslotter.com/spiritatworkvideo
Item Special Note
Buyer to pay shipping costs. Item is located in Santa Fe, NM
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