Cempaka Culture and Tourism: BIS students learn from local steel artist in educational exhibition

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Saturday, December 1, 2007

BIS students learn from local steel artist in educational exhibition

Adrian Thirkell, Contributor The Jakarta Post, Tangerang

When International Baccalaureate (IB) student George Speirs of the British International School (BIS) first saw the artwork of Fadil Gudadi, it was just a glimpse from the car as he passed Fadil's workshop on Jl. Antasari in Kemang, South Jakarta.

But the extraordinary images of motifs sliced into steel stayed in his mind, and weeks later he sought Fadil out.

From that initial meeting came the exhibition "FEELSTEEL", now running at BIS in Bintaro, Tangerang, the first ever "educational exhibition" of Fadil's works.

"Pak Fadil is here every day interacting with pupils from both primary and secondary (schools)," said Speirs.

Speirs attended an artist's workshop led by Fadil, during which he and his peers learned how the artist conveys his ideas using sheet metal, then lets the sheet weather -- or rust -- so it assumes its remarkable pigmentation.

Children as young as five and as old as 17 had a chance this week to stroll across the lawn from their classrooms to the BIS World Theatre and learn about how a material as resistant as steel can be coaxed into such tactile, delicate and expressive works of art that depict motifs from nature, such as leaves and shells.

"The dried leaves placed around the exhibition area focus the visitor's mind on Fadil's use of natural objects as a source of inspiration," Speirs said.

Fadil's work also frequently reveals his Javanese cultural roots, such as in his representation of wayang kulit (leather-made shadow puppets).

"Students can make use of the introductory booklet and the interactive responses devised by students at BIS," Speirs said, adding that students have responded to Fadil's art in writing, sketching and even in mathematics, where the geometric shapes have led to mathematical interpretations.

The exhibition, which was scheduled to close Nov. 30, has been extended to run until Sunday, Dec. 2, when the school will hold its annual Christmas fair.

A specially commissioned piece by Fadil will be installed in the school's planned new library.

"I've never been an artist in residence at a school before," said Fadil. "But the children's questions have led me to think through more precisely about how an artist can also be a teacher."

The "FEELSTEEL" exhibition is part of BIS' Creativity Action Service program, an IB prerequisite, in which students engage in creative ways with the local community.

(*) Above Picture: STEEL SHELL: International baccalaureate student at British International School (BIS), Christy Hancock, poses with "Siput" (snail) by Fadil Gudadi. The sinuous form is extrapolated on a sheet of metal in the BIS steel art exhibition piece. JP/Adrian Thirkell