Title: LOOKING FOR GODS - Telethon 2001 Location: Hyatt Regency PERTH Date: 2001/10/19 Description: Exhibition of major works by Helen Norton. Opened by PROFESSOR Fiona Stanley AC. Works exploring the desperate need for us to embrace heroic myth in our lives again to heal the great benign sickness of systematization currently plaguing our comfortable Western societies. Emphasis on the responsibility of giving "the story of myth" to our children as a tool for their creative survival. PRESS RELEASE Looking for Gods.   Helen Norton. “I am currently reaching back into some of the early gods, metaphors and symbols of human civilization.  Using these things that were carved out by us as tribal humans I am attempting to apply them to my own life. The applications begin to question things such as the sensibilities or non–sensibilities of multi-culturalisation, culture itself, religious fanatasisms, or any “isms or atics” indeed.  All these things just mentioned tend to, in their modern application today, isolate us as individuals from the overall “beat of the drum” of existence and our understanding of our meaning in the BIG PICTURE. It is interesting to apply the myths and gods in an “open share-market” of images to develop a contrast or indeed an overlay of the concepts that were put forward back then as moral guidelines for human society.  There could be some clues to overcoming our confusion and idealism’s if we apply the early philosophies and primitive but basically solid tools of our trade to our occupation of life.   The gods, goddesses, goblins, creation myths, and underworlds were fraught with human faults, and perversities that we seem to think we should be judging ourselves against now.   Why when Zeus was a perpetual roving stud who married his sister after raping her should we think we are the image of God as we stand?   All the Gods had their “problems”, and it is time we worked out what the point is of moving past the obvious interpretations of their message and into the not so obvious of these myths as they were intended.   A cryptic puzzle is how it was proposed.  Very simple but definitively utilizing the way of thinking of the times, which was based on the way, the people lived, by myth and metaphor.  All religious texts were written as metaphors only.  In our current modern day mental typology or way of thinking the bulk of the population and the systems that run our lives in any place or culture in the world (because the bulk of the population put them there), are stuck on the literal interpretation of everything and the sensing experience of that interpretation.   If we continue to think like this there is bound to be trouble to the velocity of Zeus’s life.”  Working in conjuction with Telethon to raise funds for the Princess Margaret Children's Hospital.  Sponsors listed below. * Please note that these prices do not include GST.  Australian buyers need to add 10% to the prices of the paintings below. Hyatt Regency Perth 6PR Radio Perth Avla Studio & Live Sound Production TELETHON Little Creatures Pale Ale European Foods Bullwacking 2 - SOLD Our Only Way Out - SOLD The Red Square - SOLD Hearts are Never Really Born - SOLD Fish and Volcanoes - SOLD Yin Yang - SOLD From the Clay (owl) - SOLD Bullwacking 1 - SOLD Gold From Zeus (angel and gargoyles) - SOLD Yin's Heart - SOLD Without Licence - SOLD Menace in Ruins - SOLD Robin sketch small - SOLD Corporal Punishment - SOLD Am I Still Alive - SOLD Robin - SOLD Hera and Zeus the Cuckoo (abstract) - SOLD Blue Cat - SOLD Your Peril - SOLD De-volution (jungle) - SOLD Zeus and Eurora Draped on Tree - SOLD Pandoras Box - SOLD The Red Traveller (wheels) - SOLD Boatman with Lost Goddess - SOLD Blue Boat with Clay Man - FOR SALE (B) Pedastool - SOLD Mans Little Gift - FOR SALE Athena Kissed the Clay Man - SOLD Eurora Seduced - SOLD Your Door Alone - SOLD Something Opens our Wings - SOLD The White Shoes - SOLD Curved Head (fish bird form) - SOLD The Orphans - SOLD They Never Asked Her - SOLD Cynical Old Bastards - SOLD Not One - SOLD Real - SOLD Being - SOLD The Blessings for Which we Hunger are within - SOLD Consumed - SOLD Yearn - SOLD Wealthfare - SOLD Dogs of War - Security FOR SALE It's Headin this Way - SOLD Soft Option - Spanking - SOLD Athena Enraged The Gift Horse - FOR SALE Suspicious - SOLD The Invention of God - SOLD Someone Has to Do It - SOLD Waterways flowed freely - SOLD Athena Arrives from Zeus's Head - FOR SALE Paradox (skull and vase) Human Rights - SOLD Man With Hands Up - FOR SALE Same Noses - SOLD Secret Tabernacles for evicted lovers - SOLD Same Book - SOLD Hera and Zeus the Cuckoo - SOLD The Eternal World is Nowhere - SOLD Looking for Gods (mural 1) SOLD The Escape of Yin - SOLD Scarecrow - SOLD Is This Me - SOLD One Hundred Eyes has the Night - FOR SALE