Author: Regina

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Exhibition by Regina Mendes

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Exhibition by Regina Mendes

Regina Mendes is a visual artist, a dance theatre director, a performer, a psychologist specializing in child therapy and a doll maker. In visual arts she has been exhibiting her art work since 2002 including the Brazilian British Centre.

Regina has created a project called ‘Atelier Knitting Enchanted Wool’ which, during four years, developed projects with children which were exhibited, sold and the money delivered to different communities of poor children.

The paintings and photos of this exhibition are inspired by the dolls project which also has a social dimension. You can sponsor a doll and everything you donate will go directly to the charity called ‘Plan’ JUSTGIVING.COM/DREAMSANDAHEART

Further Details

Date

From: 16/06/2015
Until: 13/07/2015

Time

Mondays 9am to 5pm
Tuesday to Friday 9am to 6pm
Weekends 10am to 5pm

Address

CHRISKITCH

7A Tetherdown, Muswell Hill
London
N10 1ND
http://beckybeach.net/whats-on/event/exhibition-by-regina-mendez/
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Pure science-art

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Li’s baby,

the precious picture of my exhibition

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‘I could connect to your dolls and feel really grateful to have my baby’s photo to be part of your exhibition. It is so wonderful. I feel your work bring people connecting to the universe much closer, like the moons’

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Exhibition of paintings and photos in Muswell Hill, London UK

I opened last Tuesday 16 June an exhibition of some of my paintings and photos inspired by  Dreams and a Heart project. I am happy to have them framed, they look pretty on the wall.

The exhibition is running in a very cozy space in Muswell Hill.

Chriskitch  7 Tetherdown London N10 1ND.

Please come, I think you will like it!

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University of Arts London, Central Saint Martins, London UK

We met yesterday 17 June 2015 at University of the Arts London Central Saint Martins in another great D&D event ‘How should the theatre industry engage with the new Government?’

I invited people to help me to put dreams and hearts into the dolls. Bill, Lewis, Clea, Fiona, Kasia, Vincent and Olivia came and we finished 11 dolls. We had good conversations. Some comments:

‘Don’t say 700 Regina, say 7 billion!’

‘First of all I would like to thank you immensely for the amazing experience. It has been a pleasure making the dolls with you. I know how important they are to you. I am happy to have been the lucky one to feel the immense good you are making through your job/life and to have contribute to this. I would recommend this session, this deep and philosophical session, to everyone because it makes you understand the importance of contributing/volunteering to a good cause for our modern society. Please Regina, keep on making these dolls and make everyone happy with your wonderful heart.’

We shared a special moment when he connected with his wonderful heart.

I love this project, I love the dolls, I love D&D. Thank you once more to make it possible.

 

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Royal Opera House, London UK

We spent the weekend, 6th and 7th June 2015, at Royal Opera House at the first D&D event about Opera and it was brilliant! The warm sunny days were present in the stunning space every single moment and we were happy to be together, we felt privileged and blessed. We are lucky people really, we have an amazing guardian angel.

Mayou, Laurence, Anne, Alexia, Joe, Anna, Catherine, Lila, Tim, Sarah, David, Li and three more people that I don’t know the names, helped me to put dreams and hearts into the dolls. On Saturday I ran out of dreams but on Sunday there were plenty of them as people brought me their pillows. We made 15 dolls.

Some comments:

‘This is the last thing I ever imagined I would be doing this weekend and I am quite enjoying it’

‘After having my heart broken last year, it was so helpful and special to share time with you and to go through the process of fitting a body with dreams and a new heart. Thank you’

and then he gave me the piece of paper where he wrote that and said ‘I am going home now, I’ve found what I was looking for, this is all I needed, thank you’

Ohhhh such a great guy, an opera singer, the first opera singer who helped me to make my dolls. We spent some time together and it was absolutely adorable.

I feel happy, honoured and blessed. Thank you Phelim and Sarah and Susie and Rachel and all the mystery that brought all of us together once more, I love you.

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50 Dolls from Italy!

Annalisa made these 50 dolls. She sent them to me from Italy some days ago. I can clearly see that they were made with lots of care. Her soft and kind dreams and generous heart are into all these dolls. I am so grateful, grazie mille my friend!

 

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The dolls and astrology

I have been developing this Art Installation for over three years. It is pretty much an expression of Neptune’s energy as we work with dreams and love. Around a year ago I realized that Pluto in Capricorn has been also a friend, an ally on this project. The work has given me insights that I would like to share with you.

The installation is made up by many dolls queuing that remind us our spine. Capricorn ruled by Saturn is connected with our skeleton. The dolls being transformed into our spine is a metaphor of the radical transformation that is going on in our planet in terms of our old structures. The new structures that will be born will be the expression of something alive and profound that keeps all of us together, like our vertebrae, this solid but flexible structure that sustains our body. Pluto transformative power is cleaning the way for us to build up this structure that will express the reality of our times.

We know that our spine communicates all the informations from our brain to the entire body, physiologically speaking. In psychological terms our back carries the unconscious life which can be full of emotions from our past including our ancestry. Eastern traditions say that our spine is the energetic pathway which links the divine with the material world.

I feel that humankind is suffering of ‘terrible back pain’, what can be associated with an unconscious Saturn-shadow as we insist to live disconnected from each other, from our ancestors and from our spiritual nature. Our shadow is what we do not accept in ourselves leading to problems with others, our past and our spiritual life.

We can think that to love our enemies as Christians say means to love our shadow in terms of Jungian psychology. When we live in peace with our own shadow our enemies become friends. We are all linked together and we are the new alive structure that Pluto in Capricorn is helping us to have the courage to build. Every people, every nation in peace with a brand new Saturn, a brand new Reality. I hope to be still here in this planet to enjoy this reality, full of proper Time to live together.

The project invites people to participate in workshops which include to put hearts into the dolls and meditation. I have noticed that when people go through this process and meditate connected with their own hearts, many of them remember their lost loved ones, so they do it in remembrance of their ancestry. Pluto is transforming our old-dead structures. However what is past but still alive will survive.

I guess that everything that still has love in it will remain among us to keep us warm and safe. This is what Pluto in Capricorn is doing, and I am happy to feel that somehow I am collaborating, even in a very tiny way, to this transformation through my art work.

These photos below are the ‘X-rays of our new spine’