My recent works on paper are inspired by alchemical manuscripts. The alchemists documented their labors in enigmatic texts in which chemical procedures, cosmology and myths are woven together into fantastic allegories. Similarly in my paintings I use imagery of birds, beasts, plants and minerals as symbols of the process of transformation, As an artist I view alchemy as a metaphor for the creative process in which there is progressive transformation and refinement of materials, imagery and ultimately consciousness. In alchemy and art alike the creative imagination is the vital agent of change. The alchemists described their labors as an "art". Like the alchemist I attempt to use physical processes as a mirror of inner experience. The materials become "transmuted" from their initially inert state through creative and chaotic struggle into a new synthesis. In my painting I use physical processes of dissolution, evaporation, heat and gravity which remind me of the alchemist's use of the elements of water, air, fire and earth. Humor is an important element of my work. Likewise humor and paradox were not unknown to the alchemist. The texts abound with cryptic riddles meant to befuddle the literal-minded and catalyze intuitive insight. Hermes, the Greek god of wisdom, was the patron of alchemists and also the trickster who could lead his followers on a search to find "fools gold". Anyone who embarks on a potentially quixotic search to find the elixir of immortality should have plenty of humor and humility to sustain themselves! The homunculus, a human-like creature nurtured in a glass vessel was reputed to have been created in the alchemical laboratory. In the novel "Frankenstein" the renegade doctor studies the writings of Paracelsus, the swiss alchemist, before creating his monster. I see the homunculus as a metaphor for modem technology with all its wonders and potential horrors. The series of "Homunculus" sculptures which utilize remnants of household appliances and found objects explores this theme in a whimsical fashion. The alchemist searched for the "gold of the philosophers"-philosophical wisdom. In their pursuit of nature's secrets they combined scientific experimentation with a mystical quest for illumination. Their holistic view of the universe viewed matter and consciousness as a continuum, anticipating recent developments in physics. Alchemy is the ancestor of modem science; perhaps there is something that can be learned from its legacy? I am inspired artistically by the beauty of the texts and their insights into the mysteries of creation. Hopefully my own fanciful creations convey something of the spirit of that tradition. (Nez, 1998)
3 p. Lonnie Feather's 1997 exhibition list., Lonie Feather has worked and lived in Portland, Oregon, and has exhibited her art since 1982. She received her Baccalaureate from Portland State University with Honors in 1987 and was recognized with the 1983 Corning Award as outstanding student while studying at the internationally renowned Pilchuck Glass School. She has received significant awards including Outstanding Woman Artist of Solano County, in 1989 among others. Numerous public and private art commissions also span her career utilizing a variety of mediums and techniques which include painting on glass, glass sandcarving, cast glass, murals, mixed media with glass, wood carving and stone sculpture., The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Lane Arts. You may view their website at http://www.lanearts.org/
7 p. Michihiro Kosuge's 1991 resume and exhibition list., The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Arts Council of Southern Oregon. You may view their website at http://www.artscouncilso.org/
3 p. Jerry Mayer's 1994 resume and exhibition list., The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at http://www.artcentric.org/
This bifolium preserves two pages of a liturgical Pentateuch, or humash, containing the Hebrew Masoretic text and the Aramaic translation of the Targum, alternating verse by verse, with the grammatical notes of the Masora parva between the columns. Despite the losses sustained from its later use as binding scrap, this item is mostly intact., Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Parchment, single sheet of 2 leaves (4 pages)., Origin: Germany?, Layout: Double column, 34 lines., Script: written in a square script., Decoration: None., Annotations: A few marginal notations and a line of text in Italian in a later hand., Disbound; manuscript binding waste recovered from a binding and therefore quite browned and with the text on the one side of the sheet obscured (but legible) by binder's glue; small losses to the gutter and the corners filled with modern paper.
Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Parchment, single sheet., Origin: France?, Layout: Two columns, 57 lines each. Horizontal and vertical ruling is visible on both recto and verso., Lettering: Gothic textualis., Decoration: Initials in red and blue flourishing. Script is in black ink. Running titles alternating red and blue., Binding: Disbound.
Collection of Augustine's writings on marriage and sexuality., Contents f1v Prologus. Epistola ad valerium. f2v De Nuptis. f63 De Sancta Virginitate. f86 De Bono Viduale. f99v Ad Hieronymum. f106v Retractio Librorum Beati Augustini. ff 1v-18r Prologue, Book I marriage and concupiscence Prologus St. Augustinus is libros de nup/tis et concupiscetia [Large_S]cripsi duos libros abillustre(m) viru(m). -- ff 19r-46r: Book II ...incipit secundus INTERALILITIETVECVRAS et in lustris persone quas pro/meritis gestas actus que re (-gi-) publice necessarius fili diline/ et honorande Valeri tanto studiote adsus hereticos/ ineloquia divina flagrare. -- ff 46r-47v The epilogue Qui bona multa cupit. nec undiq; capere novit./ sic ego queti; locis reperi degens alieni. -- ff 46v-62v: A Book on Good Marriage, Quod unus quisque homo humani generis pars est et sociale quiditam est natura humana. -- ff 63r-85v: A Book on Blessed Virginity ff 72v-85r de Virginibus pergite itaque sancti dei pueri ac puelle manes et femine celebes et in nuptie... -- ff 85v-99v A book on good widowhood. -- ff 99v-106r A letter from Augustine to Jerome. Augustinus ad ieroni mu(?) ite eo quod scripti ei. qui tota legem... -- ff 106r-106v Jerome's reply. Rescripto beati ierohim venerabili pape Augustinus Hieronius. -- f ir/v a fragment not authored by Augustine., Manuscript codex., Title devised by cataloger., Collation: 109+1 leaves in 15 gatherings of 8 leaves; XII⁴, showing 4 removed;14⁷, 15 of 2 stubs+flyleaf. Foliation in ink on upper corner of each recto, 1-110 in Arabic numerals. Signatures. Stylus ruled., Origin: Germany., Layout: 1 column of 28 lines upon a writing area 79 x 126 mm., Script: Gothic bookhand., Decoration: Eight Capitals in Red, Blue, and Yellow ink. f1v(S), f1v(D), f19R(I),f46v(Q),f63r(L),f86r(A), f99v(Q), f106r(V)., Binding: Deerskin over wooden boards. Leaf of old manuscript used as endpaper.