Ciaran Luke Buttress
Fine Artist
The More Than Enough Meal
A synthesis of The Japanese Tea Ceremony, The Eucharist, and contemporary socially engaged fine art practice.
A place were art is actively experienced and becomes the catalyst for community.
When Guest arrived They were guided through rituals in order to prepare them for a time of self awareness and communal intimacy.
季節が変わるでも. 季節の移ろい．The theme of the evening, Even thought the seasons change is submitted to by each guest as the enter the tea room below it.
Ritual is its own form of art that is an intersection between many different midiums and forms of artistic expression. I am particularly interested the creative curation of these events enables a catalysist for social-spiritual expirience. This particular occasion reflects the structure of the Japanese tea ceremony, but focuses on the changing of the artworks to create a socially interactive journey for the guests. In other sessions, I have combined the tea ceremony with aspects of the Christian eucharist to invoke new ways of social and religious thinking. The bringing together of two socio-religious rituals of east and west expresses a universal signification of human spirituality and helps question the importance of the divine manifesting itself in art. More over, it explores humanities connection to the divine through art.