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Bio I live near Nevada City, California on 120 forested acres in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. With my partner Robin, I have protected Lone Bobcat Woods from development — forever. For a decade in the mid-2000s we co-produced over 350 half-hour videos in a series titled Peak Moment TV: Locally Reliant Living for Challenging Times (online on peakmoment.tv.) Programs highlight individuals and communities going local and sustainable in the face of climate change and resource decline — even more timely now! Since we live in wildfire country, we are actively thinning our forests and reintroducing “good fire” to reduce catastrophic risk and improve forest health and habitat. What matters to me? To love and care for the Earth. And my spiritual deepening.. |
We are Tribe
acrylic and watercolor on paper
22x30"
acrylic and watercolor on paper.
NFS — it was gifted to the co-creators of our “Tribe.”
Contact artist for giclee prints
Janaia Donaldson
Age: 73 going on about 60.
(At 97, my lively mom is going on about 75, so I have a real model for vital aging!).
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We Are Tribe Our "New Tribe" of fourteen people is committed to being here for one another for the rest of our lives. We have met weekly for three years. As a visual artist and member of the Society of Layerists in Multi-Media, I received an invitation for a virtual gallery show with the theme "Awakening: Together in Change." I conceived of this design and facilitated its creation during the COVID-19 lockdown summer of 2020. Every Tribe member has a hand in this painting, literally. Seven palm prints in rainbow colors radiate on the sides. Painted renditions of photographed hands form a rainbow-colored seven-pointed "star." (All of us were masked as we offered our hands for print or photograph). The background is an unfinished painting I created created many years ago. Only after the hand prints were overlaid on it did another Tribe member see the face of the Buddha hidden within the image (which the artist had forgotten!) Buddha, the Awakened One. It was as if the spirit of the Buddha had remained invisible in the background until awakened to participate in this shared creation. We are the hands of the Buddha, bringing compassion and kindness to one another, to our families, to our community, and to the wider world. |
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We are Together in Change. Western Nevada County Tribe, August 2020 | ||
Janaia Donaldson lives in Nevada City, California, USA.
email Janaia at janaia @ yubagals.com (remove the spaces)
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