White House Visualization

Virtual reality, video, dye sublimation prints, posters

Hubby began utilizing the White House lawn as a backdrop for positive visualization in 2019. She used the lawn of the nation’s capital to gather her dream team: heroes, spiritual leaders, deities, healing plants and fictional characters who intermingle to inspire, their images serving to remind us of the collective potential. Imagining scenarios for a better future, these hypothetical realities began in the form of highly intricate collages drawn from the artist’s dreams of a stable world. The most recent work in the series, The People’s Lawn: Bringing the White House brings these collages for the first time in a virtual space.

Hubby on the series:

I’m playing with the power of our imagination, the flexing of our visualization muscles to focus on a future or scenario we’d like to see happen to replace what is happening now that we don’t like. The impetus was to help raise spirits and shift the collective focus with a playful and alternate reality of the White House lawn. I started this collaborative project by calling out to a dream team of friends and muses to contribute their uplifting actions to amplify a more positive vision for our world. Small actions can usher in great change. The keys to these works hold the layers of intention that I am hopeful for with some humor to help the medicine go down.

The People’s Lawn: Bringing the White House back to the People is a virtual reality artwork released online on Election Day, November 3, 2020 and a panoramic photograph released on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2021. Showcasing 45 artists, activists, and healers who offer a collaborative, peaceful, and playful vision of the potential for the White House lawn. The gathered actions on the lawn of the White House create a collective cacophony of goodwill.

Hubby on The People’s Lawn: Bringing the White House back to the People:

The impetus was to help raise spirits and shift the collective focus with a playful and alternate reality of the White House lawn. I started this collaborative project by calling out to a dream team of friends and muses to contribute their uplifting actions to amplify a more positive vision for our world. Small actions can usher in great change.

For more information, visit The People’s Lawn page.

Hubby on White House Gathering and White House Garden:

Mother Teresa states that she would never go to an anti-war rally, but she would attend a pro-peace rally. It is with this mindset that I populate White House Gathering with heroes, spiritual leaders, deities and fictional characters that gather to inspire due to all the good they have done in the world and for our psyches. In the work I brought together high vibration people and things, envisioning the lawn and surrounding area healed by such.

I did a bit of White House Gardening; it springs to life with all matter of healing plants, including those that have powerful transformational, curative, and palliative effects such as Psilocybin mushrooms, Peyote, Ayahuasca, Sage, Kava, etc. The lawn also flourishes with trees and flowers that aid memory, mood and overall health. I threw in a few surprises as well, i.e. negativity spray and a $6,000 stuffed seal that was made to help lift the spirits of elderly adults.

The works were featured in the exhibition UltraChrome Plus at DENK in Los Angeles.

Hubby on The Maharishi Effect:

Enlightened and uplifted beings, members of my family, and friends are in a cross-legged meditative position surrounded by spirit animals and healing objects. Picturing a positive outcome can affect an outcome, as found in the placebo effect, positive visualization, and other methodologies, including the famous experiment from the 60’s, The Maharishi Effect, that was repeated in the 70s and 80s with the same result that showed the crime of a city was reduced significantly by the meditators who concentrated on that area in their meditations throughout the study.

The work was featured in the exhibition The Vision Board, curated by Elizabeth Valdez, at Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles..