ART LOOK review of the Hoop of the World

"Art works that focus on the spiritual are sometimes so obvious as to be tedious, or so abstract as to be inaccessible. Orr manages to find a balance between formal space and sensory stimulation where imagination takes the viewer on a journey that parallels the physical movement through the exhibition.
The ceramic medium, which is fundamentally about transformation, seems eminently suited to the intent"

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The Hoop of the World

Craft ACT : Craft and Design Center, Canberra, Australia
February 10 - March 20, 2005.

A ceramic exhibition in conjunction with the National Multicultural Festival based on a vision of Black Elk, holy man of the Oglala Sioux.

“Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world.
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw, for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
And I saw the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight" .