Art Sanctuary - the Never-Ending Story

The Story Continues......

2011-08-18T00:49:00.000-07:00

Art Sanctuary opened it's 'Enchanted Garden' this summer, 2011 in the REAL world:)
http://art-sanctuary.blogspot.com/

Art Sanctuary - a Dream being Realised

2009-04-09T07:30:00.000-07:00

- It is with some sadness we are leaving the Art Sanctuary SL Isle;
- But it is To create a new Art Sanctuary - in RL:)

What a Fantastic and Magical place this has been!

- A stage for concerts

- A turning 'astrological' dance floor

- A chariot pulled by seahorses to take you all around the isle!

- A poetic castle to get lost in:) with a balcony high in the sky!

- A Sun Flower house filled with moments

- Frog Castle with a wishing well

- Magical Apple Trees changing colours at your touch!

- And gates to stir your imagination

- Secret rooms and hideaways

- A swing to bring you higher than high!

- A little house to sit and ponder in

- Dolphins singing and playing

- Of course a sailing boat to bring you around the isle:)

- And a gallery hosting constantly changing exhibitions

As it ends in SL, The Magic continues in RL;

Best greetings,

Raspirit Heron and WieBenIk Beaumont

New Official Website

2009-02-10T07:23:00.001-08:00

Tone and Ignace are proud that "The Official Tone Aanderaa Website" is ready and operational (http://www.tone-aanderaa.com/. ). The website contains paintings, poems of Tone, tell stories about her life, give up-to-date information about upcoming events. The information continuously updates with new paintings, new poems, news, walkthrough through exhibitions ... and offers will be available.

2009-02-03T16:12:00.000-08:00

Mirrored Gates

I stare in wonder as a light appears
in mirror images
in ponds and little puddles
Gates appear
and I can but walk through
remove and leave each garment
as it falls
I pass each threshold
owning less
but feeling richer
One is for my heart to sing
My mind is dancing through the second
Soaring spirit flies with ease
through yet another gate
And there is another
my soul walks slowly now
for this encounter
As silky timeless time
envelops all I am
And so we meet
on this the other side
of mirrored gates.

Parallel worlds...

2008-11-15T08:56:00.000-08:00

To truly appreciate this story you have to travel to a whole different dimension-

a different land, a different - but yes, parallel, and virtual - universe;

You need to enter a place called Second Life; http://secondlife.com/

A world created by the people inhabiting it. Believe me, it's an exciting new world!

Wor(l)ds

2007-10-27T23:52:00.000-07:00

I've searched the sky
I've traced the contours of each cloud that passed me by
I've searched and looked and asked the stars
- where are they?
I've let my fingers play with every blade of grass
along the rock I sit and ponder on
and I have asked again
- where are they?
I've listened to the silence
late at night
when I am just about to close my eyes
and I am seeing nothing
hearing nothing
just a stillness
deep inside
I've asked the stillness also
but it doesn't answer
and so I haven't heard them
haven't seen them
and I haven't found a single one of them
- The words
that somehow could describe
express
and tell the world
what I want that the world should hear;
One soul is happy
- and another
one soul is dancing with another
and when there is Another
it means that all of this
is true
and both of us are real
and really mates
because we met on this the other side
of mirrored gates
If I could only find the words
I'd love to tell
- both worlds!

A Wider River

2007-10-22T01:05:00.000-07:00

If I have been sitting near a babbling brook
and dancing to the happiest songs I've known
I now walk next to a wider river
quiet and clear and slow
A bottom is covered with precious stones
shaped by this endless flow
of a stream running through
and a wellspring that dwells
in a place that is deep below
And I walk through a landscape appearing at dawn
and I know it's the wonder of all

Waiting

2007-10-12T16:38:00.001-07:00

I sit and wait for you
I walk and wait for you
I try to sleep
I lie and ache
and wait for you
I talk and smile and even laugh
I wait though
always wait for you

I wander back and forth
through landscapes made of words
that rose to greet you
every time you came to hold me
my embrace was always filled with kisses
and now each word is my embrace
each kiss a song
each breath is filled with longing
missing you

I sing a landscape
I hear a symphony
I pick a whole bouquet of kisses
from your garden
filled with all the blossoms
of your love
and if I have to
I will pick each one
and kiss you back
while I am waiting here for you

Art Sanctuary - Invitation

2007-10-11T05:40:00.001-07:00

WieBenIk: It was a dream of Raspirit Heron. I wanted to add SL dimensions and possibilities to her artwork, to give a new perspective, and surely not following the RL way of exposing art in Galleries. When we organised our first SL exhibitions we encountered the same limitations as in a RL, our ideas and visions were sent to a dark dungeon, thus we needed a skybox, only 300 prims, then 600 prims. Why not 900, 1200, 1500? We needed an island, the Art Sanctuary site was born, only a few months later.
(From interview in SLEnquirer: http://secondlife-newspaper.blogspot.com/2007/09/art-sanctuary-grand-opening.html )

ART SANCTUARY - OFFICIAL OPENING SEPTEMBER 2nd - 07

2007-10-11T04:53:00.000-07:00

Art Sanctuary Isle - The Vision Evolves

2007-10-11T04:52:00.001-07:00

Raspirit: - My very first childhood experience with a painted image was magical - one of being transported into another space and time, another dimension; the artists’ imagination. This experience is what made me want to become a painter; to try to create a similar kind of experience for others.
And so when people who experience my paintings respond with joy and pleasure, of course I look for ways to make it ever more visible, and give it ever more dimension.
'Art Sanctuary' was something that had played in my mind for some time in RL. I made a painting a while back which I called 'Sanctuary', and I realized this was very much a sort of 'emotional self-portrait' related to how I felt about painting and writing, a place to visualize dreams. After initially being started in the skies above Hardangerfjord, Art Sanctuary rapidly evolved into a shared vision between WieBenIk and me.
(From interview in SLEnquirer: http://secondlife-newspaper.blogspot.com/2007/09/art-sanctuary-grand-opening.html )

Art Sanctuary Isle - Being Created

2007-10-07T04:29:00.002-07:00

Art Sanctuary Isle - The Vision Evolves...

2007-10-07T04:29:00.001-07:00

Art Sanctuary - Official Opening June 10th - 07

2007-10-07T04:28:00.002-07:00

Raspirit at Muse Isle - and WieBenIk's Trees are Making Magic

2007-10-07T04:28:00.001-07:00

Art Sanctuary - a Vision Shared

2007-10-07T04:27:00.000-07:00

Skybox over Hardangerfjord

2007-10-07T04:24:00.000-07:00

Once Upon a Time - In the Beginning - in Hardangerfjord

2007-10-07T00:25:00.000-07:00

Baron Santos: How did you two get together in SL?

Raspirit: I have wondered about that many times - and concluded that it was the same way a lot of things seem to happen in SL; by ‘magic':)
Seriously, I remember it as a complete coincidence, or as some call it, synchronicity. I happened to plop down into a sandbox, with only one question in my mind: How do I get my paintings into SL?
The very first person I met was WieBenIk, and he said he would know how. This was in early March - 07.
It didn't take very long to realize that we shared more than one synchronicity. Ideas were exchanged with an ease I had never known in a team situation, -- and I've known a few, -- and certainly never known in the context of my own art, which had always been a 'one-and-only' kind of process and vision.
………………………
WieBenIk: Rather simple and not at all romantic. I was trying out scripts at the PI sandbox. Raspirit arrived and asked, if I could work with textures. As always I answered, yes, not knowing that this was a start of a never ending story.