What do the Dali Lama and artist Marlin Miller have in common?
This week the Dali Lama visits New Orleans to speak about resilience.
What better symbol than the carving event that is happening on Bayou St. John right now!
Marlin Miller, the wood carving artist from Florida, is here donating his skill to resurrect a tree that was struck by lightening during hurricane Issac.
Marlin has contributed sculptures that stretch for 40 miles along the Gulf Coast devastated by Hurricane Katrina. (see his work at the web address inserted below) He creates these works of art from dead trees to remind us all that we are resilient. The Dali Lama begins his dialogue on resilience on Thursday also! Here is where art and spirituality combine.
Isn't this always true of great art? Great art lifts ours spirits and carries us upward above the devastation and crisis. Marlin began this sculpture Sunday and plans to have it ready for the opening of the Bayou Boogaloo Festival starting this Thursday. The festival is free to all and is just one more way to enjoy free music and sample the local cuisine.
Come and see the musical herons lifting the sounds above the earth and carrying them upward for the ancestors and those distant grievers to hear.
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