Image 1: Emily Silver, My Grief Is Heavy
Image 2: Suzanne Tick, Creating Unity Points
Image 3: Suzanne Tick, Passing Over to Liberation
From “The Golden Thread 2: A FIBER ART EXHIBITION”
BravinLee Programs
April 11 – May 16, 2025
At The South Street Seaport
207 Front Street (Fulton and Beekman)
Wed – Sun 12:00pm – 6:30pm
This week’s Topic is “Feelings, As interpreted”
I am honored to be shown at the
@SitespecificBravin
”The Golden Thread 2: A Fiber Art Exhibition”
A glorious tactile textile rebellion against the times in which we live.
Learning and Humility
is there for us all.
Wisdom brings Humility.
From a Vedic Perspective,
Everything is coming toward us, for us,
as a learning perspective, so to open our awareness.
By sitting twice a day and settling into our deepest state
of being. Letting go of all thoughts and notions that
things are happening to us, we transform
our physiology to that quietness of Being.
The oneness of life.
Upgrading our awareness in each sitting.
The Fiber Art show is a collective of 60 fiber
artists and their own unique way of sharing
what they are feeling, connecting to, rebelling
against — all states of their Being.
It is a miraculous wonderment of how
to manipulate fabric, threads, images, and detritus.
Creating Unity Points and Passing Over to Liberation,
the pieces Karin Bravin selected from the studio,
focus on using materials that have been discarded and the
underlying story cast from the materials.
Each making connections with the past, present and future.
Creating Unity Points is about strength and fragility.
Drycleaning hangers and the connotations
that get dredged up…
and Mylar balloons…
Used for celebrations, but which can cause death for sea turtles.
The fragility in weaving with balloons is real.
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Passing Over to Liberation is made of
164 knots of Cochineal Ikat dyed Silk,
Sewn onto a 200-year-old Torah from France.
In Exodus 12:2, the story is told of the bloodstained lintel of the
doorways of the firstborn sons to be protected.
Thus Passing Over these homes,
to allow the liberation of families from Egypt.
This is where the name Passover comes from,
which begins this weekend.
We could all use some liberation!
From our feelings, from the news,
from anything in our life that
we are maintaining.
Until the mind transcends all experience,
it does not realize the Self.
Emily Silver’s stunning work
says it all.
My Grief is Heavy
for so many reasons!
Meditation and discussing these feelings
can help us navigate through them,
to see how the shadows are all
learning moments.
04.13.2025 Deck Talk available upon request info@fifthfloormeditation.com