LIFT
A project in Lewiston, ME by Michael Libby000days
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This campaign will fund the building of a full-size hot air balloon and the launch of a Five Milltown Tour.
Backers: 32
Average Pledge Per Backer: $58
Funded: $1,844 of $26,000
Dates: Aug 7th -> Sep 9th (33 days)
Project By: Michael Libby
Backers: 32
Average Pledge Per Backer: $58
Funded: $1,844 of $26,000
Dates: Aug 7th -> Sep 9th (33 days)
Project By: Michael Libby
$1,844
current pledge level
Last Updated: September 9 @ 11:07 -0400 GMT
7%
of goal
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Seeing 
September 9th - via: kickstarter.com
“Seeing is like hunting and like dreaming, and even like falling in love. It is entangled in passions - jealousy, violence, possessiveness; and it is soaked in affect - in pleasure and displeasure, and in pain. Ultimately, seeing alters the thing... (Read More)
Hot Air Balloon Gets Artist High
September 7th - via: kickstarter.com
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Interdependence
August 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
"And instead of imagining that I am dysfunctional, my family is dysfunctional, you realize what R.D.Laing said long ago and Freud, of course, too: it is civilization which is dysfunctional. The society is dysfunctional. The political process is... (Read More)
Humiliating, Soul-awakening Experience
August 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
"Hillman says that attempting to cure the symptoms of our wounds 'may also cure away soul, get rid of just what is beginning to show, which at first is tortured and crying for help, comfort, and love, but which is the soul neurosis trying to make... (Read More)
Identity of Place as Home
August 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Watkins (2005) elaborates on this outward concept of noticing the world. She suggests that we have in the past withdrawn our attention from the external, with a preoccupation of dreams and psychosomatic phenomena. Watkins observes that when we do... (Read More)
Attentively Noticing the World
August 20th - via: kickstarter.com
"Attentively noticing the world, we find ourselves particularly attuned to certain issues, problems, and situations. As though singled out by our temperament, history, wounds, and passions, particular aspects of the world soul call us to them. The... (Read More)
Art As Medicine
August 19th - via: kickstarter.com
My art-for-social-change campaign (installation, art talk and heroin molecule-shaped balloon) aims to provoke public dialogue that leads to new and renewed connections. I believe that art can help the healing process by engaging the imagination and... (Read More)
LIFT
August 19th - via: kickstarter.com
LIFT (future non-profit): LIFT will be an expressive arts organization committed to research, education and community engagement addressing the complexities of addiction and other related social issues. LIFT will enable individuals to explore their... (Read More)
How Would A Community Approach Work?
August 18th - via: kickstarter.com
First it’s critical to understand that heroin is not the problem. It’s the addict’s attempt to solve the problem of disconnection—his/her comfort method to remedy alienation. Recovery demands reconnections at every point and level—a mending... (Read More)
Don Quixote
August 18th - via: kickstarter.com
"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and went completely out of his mind." Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote http://kck.st/2vnnWE0 https://youtu.be/RFi1eO3uLYI (Read More)
Parking Lot Paintings
August 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Parking Lots Area gallery December 2, 1995 – January 5, 1996 Curator’s Note Michael Libby’s paintings reflect a personal journey. In confronting his own pain and despair, he has ironically transformed a mundane and rather unappealing... (Read More)
Repeat
August 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Already I am back here, hanging my art, these inscrutable maps of hope, in the face of loss. This time it is to remember, too, to honor the loss of a friend, a colleague, an accomplished musical composer and father. There is no crying in public. It... (Read More)
A Pain So Utter
August 15th - via: kickstarter.com
"There is a pain - so utter - It swallows substance up - Then covers the Abyss with Trance - So Memory can step - Around - across - upon it - As One within a Swoon - Goes safely - where an open eye - Would drop Him - Bone by Bone -" Emily Dickinson... (Read More)
To Surrender Dreams - This May Be Madness
August 15th - via: kickstarter.com
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams - this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness - and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should... (Read More)
Lighter-than-air flight
August 14th - via: kickstarter.com
Lighter-than-air flight is best described as stillness in motion. While in flight, the only sensation of movement is the illusion of the ground moving beneath. Balloons are usually launched from cities and towns and land in fields and meadows. Hot... (Read More)
NEW POST: Parking Lot Painting (Giclee Print Gift)
August 12th - via: kickstarter.com
The process began with walking – literally step by step - in interstitial spaces, in Portland, Maine, in the 1990s. Though I wasn’t yet able to vocalize it, as I counted out the perimeters of parking lots and sketched their shapes on paper, I... (Read More)
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