I recently discovered a new view of the power and meaning of “RED” via http://jayarava.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html and I was happy to hear this. Jayarava wrote, “I want to finish by restating something I’ve mentioned before about technology. The internet and the whole cellphone thing… they are about creating a sense of connection between human beings. Marshall Mcluhan said “the medium is the message”. His idea was that the form of media tell us more about ourselves and our age than the contents of the media. When I look at the enormous energy (both figuratively and literally) going into our creation of communications networks what I see is a huge desire to commune. So, practice the red rite, the rite of fascination with life, with people, with things, and transform your experience of the world by narrowing the gap between ‘you’ and ‘them’!

How have we as a world culture or Global Village changed as people since the Industrial revolution? Before we lived with handmade crafts such as handspun cloth and wheel thrown pots. How do factory made objects affect our lives and spirituality? Handmade objects give life, vibration, and beauty into our lives. Factory made objects are dead and dehumanized. Does that affect our consciousness and cause us to think in dehuman ways? These are ideas that most people never consider, so far removed is this ancient culture. Come discuss your ideas AND FEELINGS with us, on our message board, via comments and direct communication itself (We want to meet you!).

I say “we” because I am a people person and even though we are among very impersonal and uncollective types everywhere, I feel like these efforts here at this blog are about us. Even “us” is misleading, so lets say our oneness, and an awareness of the need to hold space for people who seek to create real culture. It is about us reaching for solutions, its about us holding space as 6th sensory people. Its about manifesting and communicating and establishing personal connections rooted in truth process. I pray this place becomes a plce for that kind of connecting – one that gives us room to breath. I love people and life is short- lets live!

One way I live is through weaving. “…..the form of media tell us more about ourselves and our age than the contents of the media.” How does that work for getting to know me and what does weaving stand for these days? I believe each weaving is a torch, or a lamp post on love street helping us to remember the truth about our interdependence along this dark age of the myspace road to hell. The weavings are of the other road, the one which has been hidden since the inside job of 911 – the road of peace and truth and freedom and love.

Yes, Herbert Marshall McLuhan is perhaps most remembered for his statement made in the 1960’s that “the medium is the message.”

The seed of that statement contains the kernel of truth for all mediums and messages, revealing the yin/yang nature and relationship of both.

But that kernel did not sprout until the birth and subsequent development of what has now come to be known as “Drea Fine Art Weavings.” The message of weaving, seemly so disparate and contradictory at times, is none other than the ever-present, spoken, song or silent, expression of the essential medium of all experience – - the human heart.

Weaving, when undressed and unmasked, is none other than sincerity itself. It is quintessential sincerity clothed in the robe of human experience, crowned with the hope of all who cry out for justice and a future of interdependent existence – - where not only every being, but every experience, thought, sound, touch, taste, and consciousness itself is seen as wonderfully interdependent – - and treated with the care and dignity which should be afforded to each and every infinite manifestation of life; formed or formless.