Eleusis and Praise Him, Praise Him, All You Little Children @ Herberger Theater Art Gallery 10 Jan - 3 Mar 2014

Eleusis   
15 x 14 x 10  High Fire Ceramic $900 

I don't mean to break the news suddenly, but the unconscious is about to be demolished. Eleusis. They used to say the Eleusinian basket was the revelation of the world you saw when you lifted the cloth that covered the kiste, sacred chest, the kalathos, lidded basket, adapted for Batman who lifts the cloth in Batman I and sees a bat. Eleusis here has a fine blue green interior and as the cloth is lifted you see within. There is of course a theory that a mirror was placed inside and you saw yourself clouded by the drug they gave. To buy the metaphysic with the ceramic, the mystery first or the drug, the insights are joined, which image must seen ghastly to conform to all those underground chambers where the rites took place. The unconscious is the receptacle of all our sins, idolatries that dress themselves up in myth covered by a towel. They are beautiful in the eyes of sin, blue as Ishtar's gown and covered where they pretend they are good and to be good. The towel cover is the scale over our eyes that even when we receive the pain and suffering we bless our sins. Who shall deliver me from the bondage of this death, Lilith pretending to be beautiful, whole and healthy, wearing a million seductive faces, Ishtar and Lilith, a prostitute of Ishtar? We haven’t overcome any of our sins. They overcome us. Every time somebody tinks they defeat sin it morphs to another. Lust becomes pride. Lying becomes self deception.

Praise Him, Praise Him, 
All You Little Children II  
  15 x 10 x 6   High Fire Ceramic $800

There is no truth except in revelation, but revelation is the very thing sin wants to defeat, so they tell you, these gurus of the unconscious, that revelation is everywhere in myth and in the world. Called hero of a thousand faces that is their means of fooling. Called wisdom it is the way of self aggrandizement, yourself as the god. This basket differs from Demeter's, even if it has plant based designs on its cover, indentations made by impression of dried nopal pads that suggest pleating or weaving, dessicated prickly pear spines applied with cholla skeleton. Here you look within and see what the patrons of the theater do at intermission in this two month run. Except it is displayed there in the dark, so you can't see it like you above. Should they fall to the ground weeping as they pass the truth discovered vessels of themselves? It is not their fault. Blue interiors are much desired by patrons. These will be gone, and cheap at the price. Brown and green remnants kneaded into porcelain with blue green mason stains plus composite light/dark clays impastoed with chrome oxide, titanium, cobalt, rutile and some burnt umber, death valley red added to strengthen the lip at the end before formation.  Glaze with blue green mat + lily pad + drift of clear inside, blue green mat + green poison patina + clear outside.

Praise Him, Praise Him All You Little Children II manifests the unconscious only ever known by looking back. The insight belongs to the viewer and is not vested in the telling. Its call and response has no a priori aesthetic, only such as appears in the coherence. He knows where he is going, but is not sure of his way. He knows by going, hence he knows to praise in breath and prepare to wear the word as a living scroll within, literal handwritten, bound in boxes on the head and hand, on top of precepts retold that we ourselves are in the Word that underlies and surrounds what is said, a coat to give away that transfers by will, which you're going to say you've been praying all these years to have, and will. If you want to know this go here.  Herberger exhibits before this included Pity Pony, Out of Body and Out of Body II, Boxcar Named Desire and  Corn, Rice and Bean Jar.The Herberger entries comprise ten digital images. These selected make this pattern.
 * Don't know where else to put this right now, so make it small. The death of the Uncon doesn't include the the loss of breath and autonomic nervous systems. It does include the loss of all falsity, all deception, all fear, all powers of dominion,. Not a utopia, it is called the Kingdom of God. Whether that's what it is or whether that is another ruse planted, rather interpreted by the Boomquats needs discerning. Boomquats are a name for Jungs Freud forces. Those forces are no more endemic to the human than sin. As sin is done in, death dies, which you think a utopian dream, it is not, assuredly not. The roar. the roar.