This project was completed 10 years ago at Eden Foods Inc,
Clinton, Michigan USA
Eden Foods is one of the world's largest manufacturers
and wholesale distributors of natural foods.
The corridor is a thorough-way for rolling forklifts
moving palettes of food from one space to another.
So the artistic concept
was to create a colorful-feeling-mood of
rhythmical-living-movement...
transforming the environment through color.
The color was applied in transparent layers of wash-glazes.
This technique was initiated by Rudolf Steiner.
The technique or method is called Lazure Painting.
Lazure Painting helps to give breath to wall surfaces.
View many other beautiful examples of lazure
done by fellow American artists
Robert Logsdon and Charles Andrade
In my work illustrated above,
this was an environment where there is
alot of mechanical-machine movement.
The space has been transformed by lazure art.
Lazure enters into a dynamic living relationship with people
in an environment where there are
rolling but lifeless machines.
Imagine the corridor in this industrial environment with the
typical drab, lifeless paint job...your basic utilitarian solution...
just 'slap' the paint on the wall and get on with business!
Thank you Eden owner Michael Potter for making beauty
a part of industrial business life at Eden.
I would think that workers and the machines
have felt a little happier these 10 years
whenever entering this corridor environment.
Now I have been busy the last three and a half years
helping the Chinese, mostly on the mainland,
just how to awaken their innate sense for color...
and also for painting sensibilities which is of course
is what the Chinese masters were best at.
And with the devastating effects of gross capitalism
rising up in the country.. like a specter...
it is fundamentally important
to help guard against
the ill effects of this capitalism
when and wherever possible with all its
commercialism, consumerism and materialization
....which is also engulfing the urbanized globe.
Lazure Painting with living color in movement
will bring some rejuvenating life, joy and healing.
for more of my work
done in Europe, the US and Asia
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