"This
is a body of work. This is a lifetime of compressed time
interested in exploring the realms of energy in its most
infinitesimal and expansive forms. It is a lifetime of love,
of compassion, of the muse, of the artist, of the expression
of the light and sound of the unseen."
From
the Golden Visionary Series:
"Realm of Fantasy," 4' X 6',
by Moma De Louvre
Acrylic and 14-karat gold
on canvas, 1998
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As
I contemplate this life and what to do with it, I realize
there is only one path. That of the artist, explorer, architect,
financier, poet, adventurer, the seer of the invisible,
the appreciator of the forms abounding, the musician, the
creator, the visionary. To touch a tree with a heartbeat,
to hear the waves touch all of the planets, to feel the
soul of the spirit of creation. The states of ecstasy, bliss
and joy carry the paint to form the colors of the invisible
within the form of forms. Geometry as order to chaos. Color
as expressions of emotion. Movement as freedom.
With
each material used, whether paintbrush, pen, felt tip, chalk,
charcoal, there is the natural order and form of expression
that becomes obvious in the process. Each stroke is an expression
of freedom and a probing into the unknown. A process of
discovery and a communication of that as freedom. Listen
to the heartbeat within and the sound of the pen becomes
the song of the creation.
Maintaining these expressions is the focus of the life.
Other frequencies dim in the place of these. The beauty
that abounds is all-pervasive, a force to follow when others
do not understand the study. A love of life to the future.
The permeation of the unknown. Every moment an experience
with love.
Then
there is the practical application of all of this-the form
that one takes to have the philosophy and the life support
and continue these frequencies. The daily living that supports
these intentions.
From
the Translucent Series
"Birth of the Water Deva"
by Moma De Louvre,
Acrylic on canvas, 4' x 8', 1998
Angelic type realistic figures as seen from a water
reflection through sun, water and air.It is as though
the angels are coming through the water rather than
from the sky. This is the energy of Neptune as an
earth force.These are water devas.
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PRACTICAL
APPLICATION: The studio of creation is full of supplies.
Paint of every tone and color imaginable. The paint is packaged
in many sized containers best to do the job, from sixteen
ounce plastic bottles, to tubes, to gallons, to five gallons,
to fifty-five gallon drums, depending on the scope and size
of the production. There are materials to draw and paint
on in great abundance! Every color and size of felt tip!
At least 2,000 yards of canvas available at all times! Five
foot high stacks of paper of many standard sizes! At least
the best pure pigments on the planet in fifty-five gallon
drums! The mixtures and additives organic and all recyclable
to make the paint! The paint and pigments evaporate as the
brushes are cleaned. There is no waste. The studio is transported
in two semi trailers to the new site. The supplies are unloaded.
The seat of creation takes form. The materials follow a
journey, a path where they are to be unleashed. The spirits
use the liquids to create the surprises that they have in
store.
Three
thousand paintbrushes, from one hair to large brooms made
of bristle, boar, sable, synthetics, straw and wood, with
every size in between and combinations of such. The brushes
have different length handles from a few inches to several
feet long to create some distance from the painting. The palettes
are as planned as the brushes-each palette creating the mood
and energy for the paintings. Always an exploration with color
unlike the time before. At least one hundred paintings are
being worked on at the same time.
If
the studio is 50,000 square feet, as the Dallas studio was
in 1998, then 100 huge pieces are in progress. If the studio
is small then the paintings are sized accordingly. If the
studio is a 350,000 square foot summer palace in the Rajasthani
Desert, the paintings are billboard size. Every three months
to one year the studio changes form and moves to a new location.
It is a concert, a production, a stage, a play, a movement
with its own energy following a path with the stars on the
Earth. When the studio is abroad it moves every two weeks
to a month to a new country, city or province. Set up, to
creation, to packing, to moving are done in that time. Its
apex in the United States was in San Diego where the art refinanced
the forty-two story new magnificent Stark Twin Towers in 1991.
There have been over eighty major studio setups and production
cycles in different locations. There have been many more sub
studios radiating from these, like hubs on a wheel.
The
purpose to know and touch each culture and person on the Earth.
Each material and studio propelled by that desire. The promulgation
and expansion of the creative spirit. This studio has been
set up across the United States and many countries abroad.
It is back home now to its native home of its beginning. The
Heartstrings of northern California-the Artist's Haven.
"Spiritual
Metamorphic Architecture"
by Moma De Louvre
Preliminary concept model
for the Museum and
Spaces of Creation 2000
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THE
NEW STUDIO: De Louvre has done the
concept designs for some of the most beautiful projects planetwide,
having been initially trained in architecture as her primary
focus and having graduated from the University of Oregon with
a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1972. Although spiritually
a painter, De Louvre has done concept design all of her life.
The current model is the result of her studies for decades
in architecture and building. Her sense of design is infused
with her study of spirit and Earth to form a new architecture
for the planet. De Louvre/Weston now does designs for her
own operations only. Her latest design:
The studio has designed its own new form and its permanent
seat of creation amidst the moving roar. The model is built.
The people will be asked to approve its design and petition
it to be built. The Internet will be called upon to finance
it in full. The budget is twenty million dollars in support
of beauty and the new architecture for the planet. For the
first time in our epoch the museum's foundation will be created
of naturally growing crystals. The fabric feeling sails will
create the inner walls. Glass and thermal plastics will create
the floors and roof structures. The scale will be to the place
on earth it will be housed. The structure acknowledges the
elements of the Earth and life. It has an entry of life, continuation
and death. It is formed of air, water, fire, sound and movement.
It breathes with the trees. Its connecting links take the
form of birds and insects. It houses all of the paintings,
sculptures, poems and songs. It breathes with the wind. It
hears the ocean and feels the redwoods at its door. It beckons
to the ships with its lights. It is the new lighthouse. Its
bells play every song. The studio, museum is a visionary project.
It goes way beyond the Guggenheim architecturally. New architectural
visions such as the Sydney Opera House are always a focal
point for the planet. This is such a place.
THE
PROCESS: Just to loosen up to get ready to paint, sketching
is ongoing with pencils and felt tips and computer design.
While talking or being, this process is ongoing with new observation
always being the focus. See how this works, how does it go?
What is this new observation of light, form, feeling, light
and dark? Every millisecond a new insight is manifest. A new
language of discovery is at work. These new languages are
the basis for the upcoming paintings. The languages reach
to the sound of the form of the energy that is being presented.
The study is all pervasive and all encompassing with an excitement
for discovery-like finding a new planet or a new race. Each
new form and color is such. These discoveries give energies,
as they are manifest. This energy supports the operations.
There are hundreds of thousands of drawings that have contributed
to this process. They have all been archived and distributed.
The
Golden PortraitSseries: "The Hands of an Angel"
by Moma De Louvre,
Acrylic, oil, lacquer, and pearl on canvas, 4' by
8', 1998
Over grass as seen from outer space.
Up close (as through a microscope) the silver space
grid is behind 14-karat
purple and magenta mandalas that form the halos
of the golden portrait.
The large image in the foreground is looking back
through time
to her reflection of past or future as she travels
through space.
A super-whopper space portrait technique derived
from the cartouche series.
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DISTRIBUTION:
The art produced is as abundant as the materials. It seems
as though the paintings have been created by thirty or forty
artists in the space of one year. There is no specific style
other than the theme of energy. The name of the artist is
changed each year to listen to a new frequency. Moma De Louvre
is the name for 1999-2000. Om, Mom, Ma is the female principal
and the sound of creation. Louvre is for love and the Louvre
in Paris, the resting-place of the greatest works of art on
the planet. The Living Museum (the Museum Bank circa 1986)
moves around the world and certifies and archives the art.
The greatest works of art are roving. There is probably not
enough room in most museums to house them, thus the Living
Museum concept. The Living Museum brings the art to new destinations
and undiscovered crannies. The art moves with the spirit of
connection. It goes to all who call for it from the homeless
to the heads of the largest corporations. Its presence in
factories and corporate headquarters has changed the policies
of these corporations to more creativity for humanity, inspiring
social and economic justice. The distributors are from every
walk of life and every race. They have a currency to work
with that is based on creativity and abundance. Everyone has
enough currency to ward off the inflation created by currency
scarcity. Creativity is the currency of the future being created
now. Open and clear communication is the key. Communication
is the oil of the operations. In Vallejo in 1986-89 the art
bought the old Masonic Temple building of 50,000 square feet.
Here all aspects of the art and distribution were brought
together under one roof. There were large events, films, videos
and art events that created the Living Museum and Distribution
Network. Thousands of people from the San Francisco Bay Area
visited for events and inspiration. The distribution has also
occurred when there was no large visible structure. It moved
around the people like grassroots and a cottage industry.
In Florida in 1997-98 the Museum traveled in its own plane.
The paintings were created at night in private airports and
left in the lobbies by day. De Louvre, then known as the "Art
Pilot," became the "Ghost Artist of Florida."
Skimming over the Everglades with paintbrush in plane. These
stories cover the tip of the iceberg of the operations and
creativity. Distribution is also about giving to charities
and relocating currency to those events. Dallas in 1998 was
the most successful time for this as over two million dollars
was raised for charities there in that year. De Louvre, then
known as Imma Jean Morgan, became the society artist of the
year, a purely Dallas event. Distribution is about present-time
communications, not holding onto assets. All assets acquired
have been recirculated each year. Each year the paintings
start again with blank canvases from a zero base. Each year
lands, islands, jewels, assets, and treasures have been given
away to clear the slate for new concepts to occur. From this
stripping down has been born the greatest fortunes materially,
spiritually, and artistically.
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ANGEL
PAINTING SERIES
Exploring
form and dimension. The series illuminates spatial
holographic optical illusion backgrounds, grounded
by the celestial figure as static. The background
is kinetic as in all Moma paintings. These pieces
allowed Moma to explore in depth the drafting ideas
behind the paintings. Seldom now do artists draw and
then study what they are going to paint. It is a lost
art to the Renaissance. The technique comes alive
here as all the dimensions of the painting are visualized
in these large scale Michelangelo type paintings.
The Sistine Chapel comes alive in modern day. These
pieces have been commissioned as walls and ceilings
of spiritual dwellings to combine the fine arts of
spirit, art and architecture.
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Moma
De Louvre Self Portrait/Digital
"Entering the Universe"
"Maiden
of Grace"
xyline & lacquer on paper,
8 1/2" X 11"
Purchased by Jed and Carlin Diamond
Willits Center for the Arts Auction, 3/2000
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Angel
Painting Series: 4' X 8' on canvas, (corners: left
to right top to bottom)
Angel of Mastery of Light & Dark, Angels of Enlightenment,
Angel of Inspiration, Angels of Creation. |
TESTIMONY: Dallas Operations of De Louvre/Weston 1998 by
Donna La Soya:
I
have often been asked by my friends to describe the operations
of Moma De Louvre aka Pamela Weston. When I have told bits
and pieces, they in Dallas and all over Texas have responded
with skeptic disbelief, so I am writing this story of how
I observed Weston/De Louvre's working operations in Dallas,
Texas 1998.
I first met her at her house in Dallas. At that time she told
me she was an artist and would open a huge warehouse office
complex in the industrial, commercial area-the financial district
for corporations. I listened but did not pay much credence.
Soon after, she invited me to come to her studio, which was
exactly that. A fifty-thousand square foot warehouse with
huge fans and high ceilings. It needed work. There was a 5,000
square foot living space and 5,000 square feet of office for
her business management.
I was amazed at the hugeness of the scope of her dream for
Dallas. Two weeks later I visited again. The whole place had
been remodeled and was ready for production. Still I was not
prepared for the next experience. I was there when she started
painting.
Semi trucks brought all the supplies, including fifty-five
gallon drums of the finest pigment money could buy. Canvas
arrived in huge eight-foot rolls weighing 2,000 pounds each.
The canvas was cut and gessoed in large five foot by nine
foot pieces and pinned to the walls for her to paint on. At
one point I saw her working on one hundred pieces at the same
time, going from one to another. She had live models and was
constantly experimenting.
It seemed at each moment that when supplies or cash were needed
they arrived immediately, as she spoke the need. This went
on for six months. I became caught up in the process and found
myself arranging the event of the year at the studio. I brought
the Broadway Musical Stomp from New York to perform at her
party.
By now the studio was filled with production and trucks were
coming daily to pick up finished product. Dealers would come
by and dig through the trash to see if she had thrown anything
retrievable away. They would bargain with her manager for
paintings. It seemed that they wanted as many pieces as possible
to use on international transactions. It was pretty complicated
and financially above my head.
After about a year she told me that it was time for her to
move; that she had given as much creativity to Dallas as she
could. It was time for her to return to Northern California,
after a long absence of travelling around the world.
The ending was as remarkable as the beginning, and again,
I was part of the process. There was a five-day marathon of
packing and loading all extra supplies and product into three
semis that were parked at the three dock high doors. In addition
many Hertz Rent-A-Trucks and trailers arrived. As quickly
as it started, it was over and Weston/De Louvre was gone.
The studio had seemed a movie set, and the movie of the production
was over.
The Museum Showroom, twenty thousand square feet of magnificence,
with phantasmagorical imaginative design, in addition to the
studio with all the paintings, was disbanded.
I feel her absence and inspiration even more now. She is still
with me and propels me in the direction of my personal creative
path.
TRAVELS:
INDIA 1992 (Detail)
The sun beat down on the sea of humanity that pushed their
carts and baggage carriers towards the train. Trunks were
dropped unceremoniously on the dusty dirty ground with no
record of where they were to go. The finders of others' goods
crowded around for a piece. The lady in white (De Louvre)
was imagining how to get all the trunks somehow moved to safety.
No lodgings had yet been found. She was alone now for one
year following this path. One hundred pounds thin. Three bullock
carts appeared and the trunks and supplies were loaded. The
trek to find the colors in the mountains began. The caravan
moved slowly and disjointedly thirty miles north to the spot
where Buddha gave his first sermon. The trunks glowed like
mirrors in the sunlight, almost blinding where they were going.
Each carrier had a different pace and seemed to go off in
his own direction. It was hot. All were exhausted. De Louvre
walked behind keeping track. At 7:00 p.m. all wanted to stop.
She gave water and food to the people and animals and asked
to go on. In the darkness, after three more hours of travel
on unknown country paths, with no one but her caravan in sight,
blue eyes in the darkness appeared. The eyes beckoned to her
as a guiding light. She stayed for one month in the small
rock cave with the keeper of the Buddha Temple. As he prayed,
his people brought materials and supplies for her painting.
In the evening the laundrymen would pick up the paintings
and take them to dry by the river with the laundry of the
village. In the morning they were pressed by the women who
did the sheets. In the evening they were framed by the wood
maker. They then were hung in the Buddha Temple at the time
the bells chimed and the morning chant began. The journey
continued.
Angel
Painting Series:
"Angel of Universes"
4' x 8', acrylic on canvas.
Moma De Louvre, 1998
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DOCUMENTATION:
Each
year a book called the Certificate of Authenticity is produced
to validate each painting. The book covers the provenance
and history of the art. Each year it as taken a different
form. This year it will be the Passport to Creativity. A Passport
Book that validates the art, its past, and its provenance
in a very abbreviated form that can be in the wallet. Instead
of a passport to a country, this is a passport to creativity.
It is pocket currency. The books have been from one-of-a-kind,
gold four-inch thick manuscripts with hand painted pages of
individual drawings, to small Certificates of Authenticity
printed with only one hundred pages. Some years there has
been one page documentation with an engraved stock certificate
format. The intention has always been the same: to communicate
the art and its value each year-to keep a record. These books
are archival records to keep track of the production and validate
that the paintings are originals by De Louvre and her other
names. Each year videos of the studios and CDs of the music
are produced/also books of art, poetry and writings. Originals
and prints of the artwork can be ordered through the website
at www.momadelouvre.com, an expanding chronologized documentary
of the prodigious works. Audio tapes, poetry and writings
can also be found and purchased here.
CERTIFICATE
OF AUTHENTICITY FOR COVER PAINTING