The story of the Peace Portal.

Serving as “a Good Idea Generator” to provide an uplifting invitation for participants to be consciously, constructively creative - particularly in small groups of improvisational, riffing folks, in acts of synergistic, collective commoning - where creative ideas emerge and evolve into actionable manifestos and/or activities, the Peace Portal began its life manifested from the collective consciousness of the group in service to the Boulder community toward what was termed “cultivating ecologies of solidarity and care beyond capitalism, patriarchy, racism and the state”.  

Bamboology artist Joey Williams and I provided narrative through art to bring the ethos and design ideas for what is being called by potential participants in this public art piece, a “Peace Portal” alive, where folks sitting under the structure can find themselves quietly meditating, in prayer or other form of contemplation. 

Such contemplation may be to further inspire greater artworks of socially conscious forms that not only inspire insight but ask for deep transformation through which our society can emerge to a greater level of awareness.

Morey Bean with Joseph Williams , October, 2022