Canoe Fire

Humans feel the liveliness, archaism, and elemental beauty of fire naturally – it really doesn’t take much provocation in an artistic sense.  The eloquent movement of the flames, the fuel turning into ash, its potency and beauty.  The mysterious movement of  light illuminating, reflecting, cast onto, around and prohibited by the sculptural dimension of space and material that surround, creates a reflective and mesmerizing calm that so many of us remember, sense deep reflection of our evolutionary survival.  It has been an honor to create these pieces which have been such a beautiful and ceremonial conversation with my surroundings and the earth that I know and walk upon.

Working with fire as a sculptural medium is very harmonizing and more than just artistic – there is a deep sense of relating to your own humanity and ancestry.

Wild Fire Sculpture #2 was a series of fires I floated onto a lake in Arizona – to create a sculpture which moved and floated in the wind and water.  The ceremony was exquisitely beautiful.

Installing Sculptures into the Desert

Installing the pools into the beautiful Sonoran desert was arduous and mythic.  Hand building the sculptures over the course of several weeks with the help of several friends, architect Jesus Robles, Seth Olinsky, and Peter Baer, hand carrying them into the desert, sourcing water and hauling in rain to be returned to the earth.

Thanks to the  sculpture install crew: Beau Hintz, Seth Olinsky, Jeff Stokes, Dot Devota, Brandon Shimoda, Kittie Beletic.

Cy Dune 13 Drummers

Drummed in Seth’s Cy Dune performance at Heap Collective’s show on Saturday. Poets Dot Devota andBrandon Shimoda made stellar punk videos of performance. Photos shot by  Laura Stokes. The night was pretty unwieldy with Architect Jesus Robles, Musicians John Melillo, Jeff Stokes, and Thom Plasse, resident masterminds Jeremy Thompson and Adeena Baer, and more loud drummers…  Check it out at CY DUNE SOUNDS.

Pray for Rain announce

PRAY FOR RAIN
Earth Art Sculpture and Ceremony by Ali Beletic
Saturday, November 24th
5:00 – 6:30

Like the Kula Ring in the Massim Archipelago, and many other gift exchanges of primitive cultures, Pray for Rain aims to gift exchange with the earth – a return of these life giving waters for evaporation back into the cycle of water. The Monsoon storms stirring in Arizona deserts this year were strong and spectacular. The sculptural wooden and glass pools are being installed into this beautiful landscape in November.

We are happy to invite you out to Picture Rocks Saturday 24th to spend some time with friends in the beautiful desert, and see Ali’s new earth art sculpture and Ceremony Pray for Rain.

The event is being hosted on a very beautiful piece of private land in Picture Rocks, lovingly offered for the event by Micah and Montez Almond.

Gordon Matta Clark Food Tribute at Desert Table #1

To celebrate Desert Table #1, we threw the first dinner for our Gordon Matta-Clark and Carol Gooden’s Food Tribute.  We harvested Barrel Cactus fruit and Chris Franklin guest artist chef cooked tamales and John Zucchi cooked Javelina chorizo. &…

To celebrate Desert Table #1, we threw the first dinner for our Gordon Matta-Clark and Carol Gooden’s Food Tribute.  We harvested Barrel Cactus fruit and Chris Franklin guest artist chef cooked tamales and John Zucchi cooked Javelina chorizo.  Seth Olinsky did a wind holi color sculpture – and the night erupted!  Watched the sun set and the full moon rise.  Thanks to all who were in attendance.

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