- When
- Saturday 15 August
- Time
- 9:30 to 17:30
- Length
- A full day
Learn the technique of transferring an image onto stone, and spend the day making a sacred stone of your own. Together the group builds an altar installation that stays with the residency, and Jyoti gives a talk on what altars have meant across different cultures, and on how to relate to one day to day. Your stone comes home with you at the end of the residency.
The altar we build together is dedicated to the principle of Creativity and creation, so choose your image with that in mind before you come. Think about divine inspiration: which god, goddess, symbol or natural element is a source of it for you? Choose it intentionally, to fill the space, and pick a stone that matches it.
Meet the artist
Jyoti Graziano
Jyoti works with the imagery of the sacred across spiritual traditions.
Based in Alentejo, Jyoti is a photographer passionate about the imagery of the sacred across various spiritual traditions. Her stoneprints are meant to be altar pieces, reminders of the connection with the Divine in our everyday life.
The practical part
What is included
- The full image-transfer technique, taught hands on
- Jyoti's talk on altar creation across cultures, and how to live with an altar day to day
- The glue and the shared materials, including the buckets and water for washing the stones
- A place in the collective altar installation built for the residency space
- Your own sacred stone, yours to take home at the end of the residency
- A ticket to the Open House exhibition on 27 August
The Living Gallery
What you make here joins the Living Gallery: it stays with the Art Space Residency through the programme, on show until the Open House exhibition on 27 August.
What to bring
- Your chosen image, as a high-resolution jpg, emailed to us by lunchtime on 13 August. We send you where as soon as your place is confirmed
- A flat, light stone with a slightly golden tone, so the image can come through
- A dishwashing sponge with a rough side
- Dishwashing gloves
- A cotton kitchen towel
- A small flat painting brush
- Swimwear and a towel, if you would like to use the swimming pool
Before the day
Your image has to reach us no later than lunchtime on Thursday 13 August, so it can be prepared before the day. Please book before then, and send the file as soon as your place is confirmed — we tell you where in that reply.
Up to 8 people
The residency has closed
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