Aliyah Marr and Radi8.org

Local Artist Kirkos Creates A Labyrinth For People to Walk; New York Artist Aliyah Marr Creates Bliss Rocks With Wishes For The New Year For People To Take Away As Souvenirs Of The Event

Bliss Rocks © 2003-2006 Aliyah Marr
Kirkos' Labyrinth © 2005-2006 Kirkos
On the Beach at “D” Overlook, Encinitas, CA
Afternoon of January 1st, 2006


Aliyah Marr's Bliss Rocks are a new kind of participatory artist “installation” where the viewers are invited to walk away with a piece of the exhibition.

"I believe that objects can be used as containers for energy, for thoughts, or for wishes; to that end the words and the intent in the creation of each rock is destined to positively influence the owner of the rock. Please take a rock of your choice; ask it if it wants to go with you. Put your positive energy into it every time you read the incantation on the rock and let me know what happens. Write your story to me and I will publish it on my website." — Aliyah Marr


Kirkos' Labyrinths are intended as walking meditations: this one is going to be a huge drawing executed in the wet sand on the beach at the "D" Overlook (near Moonlight Beach at the end of D Street). The Bliss Rocks will be placed at the center of the drawing so that at the completion of their journey through the labryinth each person may collect one rock that expresses their wish for the new year.

Kirkos draws local labyrinths, creating patterns of great scale and beauty which utilizes the grand natural canvas of the ebb tide sand. Observers, especially children, are drawn into the center of this archetypical art. From a distance, perspective demonstrates its unique principles. One cannot view the whole from only one perspective. On the most fundamental level of drawing lines on the sand, the viewer can perceive interrelationships and metaphorical connotations of these one hundred foot shapes and patterns.

More Information:
www.radi8.org
www.kirkos.net

On Sundays (12 - 5pm) the artist/author Aliyah Marr will give personalized readings and sign her Transformational Tarot Deck at the E Street Cafe on E Street in Encinitas CA. She will also create a personalized Bliss rock for you if you bring one from the beach. Choose a smooth rock and a word that expresses your wish for the New Year.

What is the Transformational Tarot?

Inspired by the artwork of Rene Magritte, and the Zen approach of the Osho Zen Tarot, this unusual Tarot Deck uses words and images to read what is current in your life. From your unconscious desires, to your personal influences, to your mental blocks; the Transformational Tarot pulls no punches and tells no lies. Find out where you are going, clear up mental confusion, divine another's real motives, find your true path.

The Transformational Tarot purpose is to serve as a tool in self-actualization. It uses single words and images to allow you to see what is current in your life and enable you to increase awareness, step into the present, and touchbase with ones' own inner resources and intuition.

This deck explores the ideas of internal mythology, self-actualization, Zen Buddhism, and Toltec mastery. It has been endorsed by the publisher of Inner Realm Magazine to over 100,000 readers, and it has been featured in an exhibit called Digital Concentrate at Purdue University.

To see all the cards for the Tarot Deck:
http://www.radi8.org/exhibits/exhibit_8/tarot/readings/index.html

Click here to play the Tarot online.
http://www.radi8.org/exhibits/exhibit_8

More information on the Tarot:
http://www.radi8.org/contact/publish_tarot.html
http://www.radi8.org/contact/tarot_news.html

The Surfing Series
- part of the Time / Space Series
© 2005-2006 Aliyah Marr

In June 2005 the artist, Aliyah Marr moved from New York City to a small, undisclosed beach community in Southern California. Her desire was to learn how to surf; in the process she has discovered a great community and a new passion for this amazing sport. The artist is now continuing the Time / Space Sports series with a new set of paintings that use surfing as inspiration. The Surfing Paintings are focused on the exhilaration of the sport of surfing. Each mural-sized painting will be executed at the artist's studio in stages and exhibited on various beaches in Southern Californis. The painting will be shown at each of its stages week by week; both on the beach and on the artist's website. If you want to know where the painting will be and when, please check this website or use the email link below to get on the mailing list. The paintings and the display of the paintings are part of the artist's effort to bring art to the places and to the people who inspire the work itself.

In January 2006, Aliyah Marr is showing the first of the paintings on the beach in Encinitas, California. The painting, named Beacon's after the beach of the same name is a huge 5 x 12 ft mural on raw canvas. Please check this website periodically for updates on the location of the painting.