Make Life Poetry

Woodblock Print

Ink on paper, 59,4x84,1cm

1 of 17

'Everything we don't understand is explained in art' - for Amiri Baraka

Series of Paintings

Acrylic on paper, 21x29cm

2 of 17

'Everything we don't understand is explained in art' - for Amiri Baraka

Series of Paintings

Acrylic on paper, 21x29cm

3 of 17

Performing at CCA Glasgow (under moniker 'Cyril Lamar')

Instant compositions, audio work with modular equipment and objects

Find audio works on soundcloud (link to the left) Image: Jemma Mitchell

4 of 17

Kata

Audio Work, Modular equipment and tape delay, recorded live/no daw; Headphones or good speakers recommended Lars Schmidt (aka) Cyril Lamar - more work can be listened to on soundcloud (link on the left), Image by Lars Schmidt

5 of 17

What Happens To A World That Kills All Its Wolves?

Performance/ Film - To be watched on vimeo (link to the left)

'If predators do not stalk the hillsides, then the ancient pact has been violated, and the prey species must live as semi-domesticated animals. Without wolves and their wildness the country lacks the very electricity of life.’ - Jim Brandenburg, photographer

6 of 17

Placeholder #3

"For all those working to defend the sanctity of Earth's precious land and life" -- The Placeholder Series are performances and rituals in a public space. Notions of ‘being in service’, of interrelatedness, and the concept of 'offering' are at their center. - More performance work to be seen on website and vimeo (links to the left).

7 of 17

'You should ask rice fields and gardens for the truth’

Sculptural work, site specific

Dunure, Scotland

8 of 17

'You should ask rice fields and gardens for the truth’

Sculptural work, site specific

Balmaha, Scotland

9 of 17

The Horse

Photographic Work

10 of 17

'Take A Stand'

Live Performance/Choreography, site specific

More info on www.larsschmidt.org Image: Katri Heinamaki

11 of 17

'Take A Stand'

Live Performance/Choreography, site specific

More info on www.larsschmidt.org Image: Katri Heinamaki

12 of 17

'From the Notebooks'

Collection of poetry

13 of 17

Dancing With Landscapes / Making a Pond

Intervention at Beech Hill Permaculture and Retreat, Cheshire/UK

“Then you draw, then you create a pond. Both I'd call dancing. Both I'd call instant compositions. You listen, you allow form to take shape. And you see how it resonates. You listen again, adjust maybe. If it works it will have a life of its own.”

14 of 17

Dancing With Landscapes / Making a Pond

Intervention at Beech Hill Permaculture and Retreat, Cheshire/UK

15 of 17

Pollen/Benedetti

Live Performance, site specific

Cheshire/UK Image: Delia Spatareanu

16 of 17

Pollen/Benedetti

Live Performance, site specific

Cheshire/UK Image: Delia Spatareanu

17 of 17

Improvisation as mode of being and as ecological practice is at the core of the work I present here.
My original outline for the year was ‘The Arts in Service – Interrelating artistic, ecological and spiritual understanding’.
This had emerged out of years of involvement in improvisational practices, inquiry and experience of working with land and animals, as well as deliberate, but also necessary examination and withdrawal from Western ways of perceiving, thinking and operating.

Life and art are not separate for me.
The practice of an art form has the potential to inform and form you, reaching into every aspect of life and living.
Especially in these unprecedented and unpredictable times, I consider the arts a potent vehicle for self-transformation, and a means of facilitating ethical and ecological understanding.

If you like what you find here, I invite you to visit this gallery for a fuller body of work.

Also the essay that can be downloaded below might be informative.
(‘Skillfull Striving in a Time of Crisis – Improvisation as mode of being and ecological practice’)

I would have much rather invited you to a performance and a tea, but I guess that might have to wait.
I hope you enjoy what you find in this exhibition.

— ‘Caring nowadays is not a luxury, it is a matter of survival.’ – The 14th Dalai Lama —