{"id":707,"date":"2009-08-03T14:35:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T19:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/blog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2009-08-03T14:35:38","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T19:35:38","slug":"making-art-for-everyday-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/making-art-for-everyday-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Making art for everyday life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/yary_spirithouse_insitu.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-714\" title=\"Yary Livan's sculpture garden. Photo by Maggie Holtzberg\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/yary_spirithouse_insitu_smaller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-715\" title=\"Spirit house by Yary Livan. Photo by Jason Dowdle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/yary_spirithousesmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After finding refuge in Lowell eight years ago,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massfolkarts.org\/object_detail.asp?ObjectID=8140023\" target=\"_blank\">Yary Livan <\/a>and his family finally own a home with a yard.  Beside their light blue house on Franklin Street is a welcoming green space where Yary has created a peaceful sculpture garden.  Just to the left of some blooming echinacea sits Livan&#8217;s 38-inch tall ceramic spirit house. He had patiently loaned it to us for the  <a href=\"http:\/\/massfolkarts.org\" target=\"_blank\">Keepers of Tradition <\/a>exhibition, where it sat encased in a plexiglas vitrine for over a year, along with other sacred pieces of folk art.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-711\" title=\"Sacred Expressions room at National Heritage Museum\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/yary_atnhm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"283\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>Now the spirit house has found its rightful home. Yary&#8217;s wife, Nary Tith, had explained to us that in Cambodia, where Buddhists pray on a daily basis, temples, and pagodas are often built far from villages. Therefore, many people construct their own spirit houses for their yards. Typically, spirit houses are highly ornamented wood or cement structures limited to a handful of standard designs. Yary chose to make his spirit house of clay because he wanted to combine his skills as a ceramist with his Khmer heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Their home is filled with Yary&#8217;s ceramic work &#8212; elephant pots, vases, and cooking vessels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-720\" title=\"Golden elephant pot by Yary Livan\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/yary_elephantpot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"151\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-722\" title=\"Casserole dish by Yary Livan. Photo by Maggie Holtzberg\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/yarylivan_casserole_small2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, even the kitchen table is a work of mosaic art.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-723\" title=\"Livan children preparing dinner. Photo by Maggie Holtzberg\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/yarylivan_childrencooking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This tiny grandchild is certainly growing up in a home rich in Cambodian material culture. Perhaps she will one day carry on the tradition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-724\" title=\"Nary Tith, Yary Livan, and grandaughter. Photo by Maggie Holtzberg\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/yarylivanandnary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finding refuge in Lowell eight years ago, Yary Livan and his family finally own a home with a yard. Beside their light blue house on Franklin Street is a welcoming green space where Yary has created a peaceful sculpture garden. 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