Interlaced Motives

Press Release Interlaced Motives at The Bonnafont Gallery October 15 through November 12, 2016 'Poetry has no proof nor plan nor evidence by decree or in any other way. From somewhere in the twilight realm of sound a spirit of belief flares up at the point where meaning stops and the unreality of what seems most real floods over us. The inward ardor I feel while working in research libraries is intuitive. It's a sense of self-identification and trust, or the granting of grace in an ordinary room, in secular times.' Susan Howe 'Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives', 2014, p.63.   Substitute poetry with image, sound with vision, research libraries with the world at large or with the work shop, and you read a painter's principle. Observing with eyes wide open and a quiet, alert mind is another code of practice. A third would be: Follow your intuition. This way of being is only one part of the complex system of creative processes and expressions.   Christel Dillbohner will implement these ideas in her site specific installation 'interlaced motives' at The Bonnafont Gallery in San Francisco. The paintings, ink work on paper, photographs and assemblages are examples from the margins of a larger body of her recent work. They present the undercurrents of her creative process where thoughts are translated into images. Some aspects of the installation will change for each of the three events. In this way the creative environment will adapt, evolve, adopt, and elucidate the various processes which are involved to manifest a thought, sensation, emotion visually on a plane of paper or canvas. But not only her work will be on sight. Dillbohner will add a few works by colleagues that have interlaced motifs.   Dillbohner has invited three colleagues Corey Hitchcock, James Linnehan and Gero Leson to present their specific fields of work: attentiveness, observation and implementation.   Corey Hitchcock is an interdisciplinary artist and works in a range of media including video, performance, and painting. Corey's work, anchored in shamanic and geomantic practices, reflects a deep connection to the landscape and inquirers into levels of experience. She will present a selection of her video work.   James Linnehan is an art practitioner who pays close attention to creative processes seen through the eyes of history. For many years he has collected images of 'outsider' art and researched the lives of the artists. In his talk he will examine, through images, emerging themes from the byways of consciousness.   Gero Leson is Director of Special Operations at Dr. Bronner's. Since 2005 he has built and operated projects with smallholder farmers to produce organic and fair trade raw materials for Dr. Bronner's. His talk about Serendipalm, Dr. Bronner's palm oil project in Ghana highlights human, economic and ecological aspects of working in the tropics.   For over 4 decades Dillbohner and Leson have intertwined creative and environmental research in their lives.   Christel Dillbohner is a painter and installation artist with working experience in multiple media. Since the late 1980s she has shown her work in the US, Germany and Japan. She has received a fellowship from the California Arts Council, and has been a resident artist at Jentel and recently at the Morris Graves Foundation.