Invitation to my Installation

Walking With Women along the Labyrinth of Life
Mixed Media Installation
Rosario Umaña
Ottawa, Canada
rosario.umana@yahoo.com

Vernisage: Monday March 8h 2010, 6pm.

Felipe Gutierrez Gallery (UNAM/ESECA,
55 Promenade du Portege, Gatineau)
Vernisage: Monday March 8h at 6pm.
Exhibition: Tuesday to Thursday
9 -10 -11 March 2010, from 9am to 9 pm and Friday 12th to 3pm.

Walking a Labyrinth is a spiritual, awakening experience. In this Installation you may walk alongside with women's old, worn shoes and also enjoy my "Empty Bodies Sculptures" by looking at the way and reasons why we cover , expose, protect, live our body, ending at the centre, the core, yours and mine.

I invite you see my work:
Walking with Women along the Labyrinth of Life
Mixed Media Installation
Felipe Gutierrez Gallery (UNAM/ESECA,
55 Promenade du Portege, Gatineau)
Vernisage: Monday March 8h at 6pm.
Exhibition: Tuesday to Thursday March 9 until the 19th 2010 from 9am to 9 pm and Friday from 9am  to 3pm.

Walking with Women Along the Labyrinth of Life
Mixed Media Installation
Rosario Umaña

rosario.umana@yahoo.com

rosario.ottawapottery.com

http://labyrinthinstallation.blogspot.com/

Mixed-Media and personal Blog at  http://rosario-umana.blogspot.com/
Selection of Photos of women covering their bodies and wearing diverse garments at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosario

Ricardo has always been the first and best suport. Here he is making the wire structure for the top part of the seed... I have managed to damage two of them in clay already. This one will be made in papier mache... there it is, finished hebind Alejo below.  

Alejo is always there to give me a hand. Now we are disigning the Invitation to the Exhibition... it will come to the Blog when we succeed... it seems far, but there is only a bit more than a month to work!  It gives me the chills.  

My sculptures are almost finished for the Installation. Here are the Burka, a beautiful dress from Indonesia and the wedding dress from the '60 Lina found at a Second hand Store. She wore it, pleased her parents who came from Colombia for the wedding and lent it to me for the Installation when I was looking like mad for a wedding dress... All has come from people's support. Now, the two embroidered curtains (behind us) were used in the Check Rapublic when it was Bohemia by my frind Barbora's grandmother. They were hung at the corner of the room where a woman was giving birth, her bed behind it so no one could see her.

Great help! Hanne, Libby, Ricardo and Bruce looking at the sculptures of "Empty bodies" and the center piece of the Installation in front, a big seed... our seed, our core.

Catastrophy

The center of the Installation is a seed. The core. When you walk the sacred path of any labyrinth, the centre is to go within, stay contemplating, letting the questions flow and be there...  My seed is made in porcelain, in two pieces. The bottom one dried very slowly and was fired twice successfully.

Then the top part, with lots of work did not make it. Catastrophe in the kiln... how could this happen to the seed I cried! Start again. And for a second time, it cracked while drying. By the sugestion of my dear friend hanne, I will make it for a third time, but not with clay but with papier mache.

This is the sequence of the seed...

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