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Costume Design Sketches by C. Hoffman for the
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MEET THE FOX.
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He s a playboy who keeps late hours
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Will he reform when he learns
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Sung in English with text projected above the stage
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Carol Franc Buck
Foundation
A D e lt a A i r l i n e s
“My images have to do with spiritual
beings, with the psyche, with the shadow side,
with the transformation from life to death, and
C o n t in u e d fr o m P a g e 1
with the journey toward the holy,” she says.
Goman goes on to explain the genesis of an
ongoing
set of work: “Out of my interest in
o one who sees her amazing show could
tribal arts, particularly Hopi kachina dolls,
walk away believing Mar Goman is con
emerged my series of strange angels.”
ventional. She is clearly tapped into to a
These small sculptures are created from
Universal Source of creativity. In fact, she finds
wood, metal, paper and found objects. Goman
her artistic inspiration in tribal cultures from
began
making her odd angels 10 years ago and,
all over the world, and that same kind of
she says, “by the time I’d made about 2 0 0 ,1
authentic intention is also evident in her most
realized I wasn’t going to stop anytime soon.”
ly three-dimensional pieces.
She became
inspired by the Japan
ese tradition of mak
ing 1,000 cranes for
peace and then began
numbering her angels,
i with the idea that by
the time she had
made 1,000 angels
“there would be spiri
tual enlightenment,”
she explains.
Being a realist,
Goman stopped num
bering them at 999.
T he choir of angels in
this show evokes an
elemental, emotional
response with each
figure’s very simple
directness. And some
even sport a sense of
humor.
“I’m fascinated
with games and game
Artist Mar Goman— it’s not just about some sweet prayer
pieces,” Goman
admits with an impish
“Tribal art has been a
grin— indeed, several angels and crosses whim
major influence for me
sically feature dominoes and Scrabble tiles.
because the primary intent of
The process of collecting the
most tribal art is to make
myriad materials with which she
visible the powerful world
works is also part o f the journey
of spiritual forces— and,
for Goman.
this is also the major
“I like the idea of using the
intent of the rich sym
castoffs from a consumer soci
bolism of liturgical Christ
ety and giving them new life in
ian worship,” Goman says.
my pieces,” she says, adding, “1
The single most striking
have an entire room in my stu
piece in the show is her sculp
dio devoted to storing
tural Self-portrait o f the Soul,
f
all these strange and
constructed of painted fiber and
wonderful objects.”
attached objects. Some parts are
Other series in
dipped in wax, others are frayed with
the show are Library
lots of loose ends, and one hand
o f Babel, painted
holds a magnifying glass while the
rocks that represent
other holds a cross.
the artist’s own dictio
“Much of my work seems to
“Self Portrait
nary of spirit symbols
come from my own shadow side,”
of the Soul”
and a vocabulary each
the artist confesses, “and 1 have
• person can interpret on
learned to value my own dark
her own; and laminat
periods as a time to explore the
ed Lexicon Cards that
depths of my soul— willingly or
beg to be taken off
not!”
the wall and laid out in
One whole wall of the inti
divination.
mate gallery space is filled with
“There are things that you can’t put
an array of crosses. Made of
words around— like God,” Goman says
bones, wood, bottle caps, but
quietly. “Yet you need to express feelings
tons, metal and fiber, they
about Godness.”
express a wide range of emo
In “Anima Mundi,” this fine artist’s feel
tions. One is painted with the
ings are expressed with a rare combination
words “Holy Terror: believe me
of wit and piety.
it’s not just about some sweet
prayer.”
■ S anctuary for the A rts , located at
Goman says she creates most
612 N .W . 12th A ve., is open from noon to
of her pieces intuitively and only
5 p.m . M ar G oman ’ s w ork will also be on
later does she realize the mean
view at the Buckman Art Show and Sale,
ings in the metaphors she has cre
which benefits the Portland Public Schools art
ated. Such was the case with a
program, April 6 through 8 at Buckman
particularly powerful cross that is
Elementary School. She is represented by
adorned simply with a large rusty
Franchie Seders Gallery m Seattle
gate latch and a thin rusted heart.
(www.sedersgallery.com).