Clear Light. Dinner with Ashley Helvey & Valet.

CLEAR LIGHT Installation by ASHLEY HELVEY proprietary menu by LUCE sound by VALET 07│23│2010 8pm Clear light is a state of mind which becomes fully manifest only as a consequence of certain sequences or stages of dissolution, where the mind becomes devoid of certain types of obscurations, which are again metaphorically described in terms of sun-like, moonlike and darkness -Dali Llama Ashley Helvey has collaborated with LUCE, design studio IACOLI AND MCALLISTER, and musician Honey Owens of VALET to create an installation and experience based on the Buddhist concept of the Clear Light Mind. Following the opening she will teach a felting workshop at Luce where you can learn the basic techniques used to transform raw wool into a felt textile. Read more on the UNA site. 5 course vegetarian dinner $45 wines to compliment $25 *gratuity not included {Please email events.luce@gmail to attend, you will receive an email to confirm.}

Ashley Helvey is a felt artist whose work has been exhibited in galleries nationally and in Europe. She contributed to the Cooper Hewitt International Design Museum's Fashioning Felt exhibit and worked with the cooperative Le Famn Veret in Haiti, to develop a line of felted objects to provide jobs for local women. Helvey teaches workshops at institutions, museums, and galleries and continues to collaborate with artist and designers on felted installations and performance pieces....

Honey Owens has been an important figure in the Portland experimental music scene for more than 10 years and has collaborated with an array of both obscure and well-known music projects including World, Nudge, Dark Yoga, Jackie-O Motherfucker and currently The Miracles Club. For the past couple years, Valet has turned into a collaboration with visual artist Ashby Collinson and the new project is now called 'Valley' -this will be their first show as the new entity.

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