Founded by Walter E. (Gene) Lewis and Ray Pierotti
C.A.R.E. (Center for Art & Rehabilitative Energy) in Shellman, Georgia
The Center for Art & Rehabilitative Energies, Inc
A 501 (c)(3) Nonprofit Foundation
3696 Pearl Street
Shellman, GA 39886
The Arts and Healing Care share in a common cause. They bring to individuals who participate in their activities a sense of well being, a renewed positive outlook on daily circumstances and a sense of connecting with what is human in each of us.
The artistic aspect of the Center will introduce the intellectual, emotional and spiritual values that the Arts have brought to the World since time immemorial. Since the arts are frequently neglected in the public and private educational systems in this country and in particular in Randolph county, the Center hopes to fill this void by offering exhibitions, lectures and hands-on workshops as the interest becomes manifest. Ray’s specialty is in the multi-layering of several mediums on untreated canvas and acid-free papers.
The Rehabilitative Energy aspect of the Center will focus on alternative therapies taught and utilized throughout the world for helping those individuals who suffer from conditions that are not being treated by the traditional medical approaches to the health and well being of the concerned individual. Like the Arts these rehabilitative therapies look to educating the participants in the importance of personal development and trust in one’s own inner ability to heal, gain self confidence and share their gifts with others in need. This will be done in private and small group sessions conducted by Gene along with public lectures on the numerous alternative therapies available which are mostly ignored or unknown to the larger community. These therapies can be viewed on Gene’s web site: www.genelewis.us
The Center currently consists of three buildings and 13 acres of land located on Shellman’s main street. The barn being developed into a museum/studio space will host exhibitions and other events. The building located at 3682 Pearl Street has a reception area, a therapy room and space for gathering groups for lectures and presentations. Future developments will include a public garden and eventually several small self sufficient cottages to be available to travelers who make the Center a destination. For additional information please contact the Center.
Inkdyes, Pastels, Acrylic, Pencil
“I am drawn to the ephemeral nature of light. The source of both the external and internalized appearances of color in materialized space. My paintings are formed through a multi-layering process of several mediums on untreated natural surfaces. Not unlike the musical instruments on which the musician sounds the performance, the underlying presence of inherent characteristics of both the material and the maker are inseparable from the whole. The process mirrors one’s physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual individuation.”
“My academic studies were art-centric with an emphasis on classical Western music, dance and poetry. Subsequent informal studies have been in the symbiotic resonances between color, sound and shape.”
“My intuitive aim, since graduate school back in the 60’s, was to somehow find a way to make visual the transparent sounds of an orchestral or instrumental ensemble, where each voice (among the instruments) is distinctly unique. (However by) Combining the several sounded instruments into a unified sounded blend they confirm that old adage ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.’ Thus my elation when I came across the work of John Reid, the inventor of the CymaScope® that makes possible the visual shape and texture of sound. I then moved from ‘interpreting’ musical ideas to composing ‘visual’ music. With his work I was able to make both scientific and artistic connections between color, shape and sound.”
“My main interest in the creative process is not interpreting the meaning of sound, shape or color as they appear in someone’s reality but rather in presenting these three phenomena in a variety of relationships and letting their universal appeal (or meaning) speak to the viewer or in a more musical sense give voice to the viewers inner awareness and perhaps, if they are interested enough, to bring their intuitive feeling in to their cognitive intellectual environment.”
“A musical interval is generally the tonal relationship between two notes in a musical language. In Western classical music composition, intervals help define the character of the work. Some intervals determine the major or minor character of the scale, while others help define the compositional style of a given historic period. For example, the interval of thirds often defines the major/minor relationship and was popular during J.S. Bach’s and Mozart’s time. Fifths, if flattened (lowered or compressed by ½ a scale tone, the sounding distance between an adjacent white key and black key on a piano or organ), become resplendent augmented fourths, popular with Debussy and Ravel. Doubly-flatted octaves become diminished sevenths and were associated with the early days of jazz.”
“These intervals often set the ‘color’ of a musical composition. Since there is a correlation between sound and color, I set about combining, in a suite of paintings, interval related cymaglyphs (the stopped-time images of a given sound viewed on the CymaScope®) and their associative colors and shapes.”