Hello Richard,
I am Carol Arthur from Mesa, Arizona. A friend forwarded the link to your website to me this evening. I went there, almost feeling compelled to do so. Just so is the same feeling to write a short message to you.
I sit here, tears streaming, thankful for the great beauty you have created, that with which you honor all that is sacred. You have truly taken your long-awaited place among the spirit elders of this planet. You show the way to honor the sacred within and without. You speak a language few can still hear. Yet, you are a marvelous interpreter for those who wish to listen. You are at once a student, a Keeper and a teacher.
Thank you for coming to this planet and hearing the call of the plants and living your vision, sharing the sacred with others.
Blessings
Carol
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Richard Solomon's work calls us back to those cultures and traditions who recognized and revered the seed and its display of life. Peoples have in many parts of the world created works of art, worshiped and offered seed and plant as a way to reconnect themselves with the mystery of birth and death.
They have celebrated the plant as healer, nourisher, source of vision and wisdom, as well as clothing and shelter. In our time when much of agriculture has been industrialized, our precious rain forests are being destroyed and many plants are turned into house pets, his work reminds us of the unending beauty of a world that western culture has forgotten. His sculptures, if they can be called that, are medicine bundles of modern society.
Dr. Joan Halifax, Anthropologist
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Richard Solomon has the rare ability of making visual poetry in art. His sensitive works bring together the art of culture and nature. He takes the basic elements of nature and re-expresses them in spiritual terms that humans share and understand.
