These are pictures of the original 9' experimental rough prototype for the central figure of The Fountain. It came out the way it wanted to rather than exactly like the original vision so I let it be itself. This piece is called Spiraling to Oneness and is available for commission in bronze. The four top angel's are pronouncing LOVE.

 

Larkin's Vision

My name is Larkin Chollar and I would like to share with you the origin of my desire to create "The Fountain" and offer my gift into the world in the form of many works of transcendental art. In the spring of 1969 after meeting, I believe, a profound spiritual challenge and yet being in a state of sadness and grief for beloved friends, I walked out of the town where I grew up and put my thumb out with just the clothes on my back and a coat that wouldn't zip. Getting in the warm backseat of a car I closed my eyes and took a deep breath of relief. I was on my way south to the sun.

 

Suddenly I was having one of the most remarkable experiences of my life. I had for the lack of a better word, a vision, in that it was totally complete and viewable from any direction. I could zoom up on areas or view it from a distance.

 

The vision was of a bowl of earth....with a large column of people flowing up in the air forming a God like Being holding his arms out with such profound offering and from between his fingers flows the water down into the two lakes below. This central column took my attention at first, but then a backed off to see the whole of life that was happening in this bowl containing desert, forest and plains. The bowl formed a large circular arena for life to express itself. On the outer periphery of the bowl there were people gazing off the edge, sitting with legs over the edge,  fishing and generally hanging out. Some were helping each other: some were making it harder. A man had dug a hole too close to the edge and was falling through, Some were trying to give a helping hand while others were shoveling dirt on him.  In general on the outer edge they all just seemed to be separate and unquestioning.

 

Then in the next area towards the center there were people living, helping each other, building, growing food...being human on Earth. Family scenes, mothers nursing babies, lovers embracing and all the while surrounded by plants, trees and rocks gave this area pastoral feeling. The water flows between the unseen fingertips above blessing all of this life through the two lakes that feed the flowing creeks.

 

As I looked towards the center again there seemed to be a circular transition...the next circle in had groups of people sitting down in each of the four directions. Standing farthest from the center but looking inward there was a standing person seeming to teach those sitting. These groups were in a circle in the East, In a square in the West, In a Golden Mean rectangle in the South and a triangle in the North. In each of the groups  But now looking closer I noticed that those closest to the center were beginning to look over their shoulders towards the center for themselves...and they are seeing now that others have risen and are walking towards the center with looks of joy. They begin to spiral up in the air as they move forward.

 

Now, I look again at the center and see that the column is made of those who have spiraled up in a double helix, spiraling up together in joy. The bodies spiral around around and up and up and then begin to form surrealistic yet beautiful faces and then the larger faces are spiraling yet further upward in Oneness toward the two powerful male and female faces on the chest of the Over Soul figure who seems to hold such love and compassion for all. And there is no hierarchy...form is expression from the Oneness as ALL of life. The arms above were coursed with veins and the hands were of great strength and sensitivity. The face amazed me with kindness, depth and peaceful power. The face seemed to depict so many virtues. When seen from the front there was open outward pouring love and kindness. The left side showed a powerful estheticism that seemed to be looking just as strongly within.  Beneficent is the word that comes closest to the feeling. Vast love that holds no pain or angst but is simply radiating.

 

I looked and looked at this form that was so clear in my mind, yet I said nothing to the driver nor to any of my friends when I reached Phoenix. I kept it close to my heart. I had been doing art since I was a kid and I did a great deal of art for shows and won a lot of juried competitions during high school and then I worked with a potter doing original fine art pieces for galleries in Seattle. So I assumed this vision had something to do with my artistic imagination but it wasn't until about 1973 that I met a beautiful young woman, Peta. I felt a kindred spirit in her and I told her about the Fountain, which is what I now called it in my mind. I really didn't know what to make of The Fountain itself. After the first experience I could look at it in my mind at any time. Yet, I didn't know exactly what it was saying. It was inspiring to think of just getting good enough to create it. When I described the vision to Peta, acting out the various areas, she immediately could see it and told me that it was of extraordinary significance and that we should begin to work towards "Doing the Fountain." 

 

To make a long story short, that beautiful woman and I married, went through some crazy times in the early 70's, had a child together and separated. I soon married my second wife and kept working as a sculptor always wanting to get better so I could create The Fountain. I had a daughter, Sarah and son, Clay. We lived in the mountains of Santa Cruz and I feel now that I was sleeping under the programs of my childhood pain. Peta and my son, Bo, died at 8 and my heart was struck down just as I had made contacts to do major works of sculpture, I retreated into my art as the wind had been taken out of my sails for taking it to the world.

 

If you explore my website www.powerofnow.org/larkin you will find just a fraction of my work...still, I have only recently opened to the gift that is my work and now I am committed to really "getting it out!" The Fountain may come immediately if someone can commission or sponsor it. Or it may come after working on a number of transcendent pieces that I would love to do for places that are seeking to make the Divine visible and model Oneness. Beauty and meaning are attributes of the Divine that I am blessed to have flow through my hands. Due to deeply puncturing my left palm while building the armature, I was still so inspired that I sculpted the head, face and shoulders of Spiraling In Oneness with one hand in just four hours. I am only saying this to show that I can create quickly and passionately and I want to do that.

 

I am looking for people who share in the vision of Oneness of all Life and feel moved to help bring these transcendental models of Oneness to the planet. I am looking for people who would be willing to support this vision financially. I am putting together the LOVE business www.powerofnow.org/love to help families be financially and locationally free by working together creating beauty. This is our answer to making the money in a linear way while doing good. And I am committed to it. Yet for The Fountain, I would prefer miracles..are you it?

 

Through this last year of focusing on inner work I have come to this point with lots of inner and outer artistic tools and just enough money. It is time to shift towards abundance on all levels. Before, I believed that if I sold my art I was somehow selling out. The ego kept me from giving my gift to humanity. I am over myself.  All I need is a studio in the woods and clay, mold making materials, and casting costs. There will be plenty of abundance to share. I am looking for investors, for patrons, for Centers or Communities that would like to commission a beautiful sculpture to hold the resonance of their vision and love, and for families that would like to make a living helping the ripples of beauty and grace go out into the world. Are you or someone you know..who I am looking for?

 

Thank you so much for your patience if you read this far. Thank you for any help you may be inspired to offer. Perhaps you are in the Soul Group that this vision is a part of and somehow it resonates with you. Possible connections with people you know that pop into your heart/mind as you read this may be extremely helpful. Please write or call.

 

P.S. Peta and I got back together a year ago. She's building this site.

 

Thank you,

Larkin Chollar

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larkin@powerofnow.org     

 

541-779-1138