Roaring Fork, CO February 2020

FEBRUARY 2020

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LIFESTYLE LETTER

FEBRUARY 2020 PUBLISHER

Rick French | rfrench@lifestylepubs.com EDITOR

Caitlin Causey | caitlin.causey@lifestylepubs.com

Bearing Witness to Love I HAD ALREADY FINISHED A DIFFERENT LETTER THIS MONTH WHEN THE

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SERENDIPITOUS CRACK OF A FORTUNE COOKIE CHANGED MY PLANS.

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After enjoying some takeout one recent night, I found my cookie in the to-go bag,

Caitlin Causey, Suzanne W. Kirch

extracted its fortune, and smiled. It read: “Art is the accomplice of love.”

This little pearl of wisdom got my wheels turning. I did some googling and found that the quote originated with French writer and philosopher Rémy de Gourmont,

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who penned a great number of works around the turn of the 20th century. I also discovered that he continued the aforementioned quote with an even more thought-provoking notion: “Take love away, and there is no longer art.” Regardless of the initial context in which de Gourmont wrote, there is simply no denying that love and art are inextricably linked—and always will be.

The most profound creative works show us how art can also bear witness to love, as is the case with Diane Orlov’s Angel of Hope Mosaic Project that’s featured this month on page 22. In the years since her daughter passed away, Orlov has given

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soon. The Angel has become bigger than just one woman’s dream; it’s become a

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work that honors the collective remembrance we all hold for people we have lost.

Be sure to read about how you can help bring the project to completion in 2020.

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Our February issue offers stories of locals like Orlov who have poured their hearts into creative endeavors, in the hope that our greater community will enjoy and find meaning in their efforts. Art, and its partner love, are indeed alive and well in our valley.

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INSIDE THE ISSUE FEBRUARY 2020

FEATURES 16 Abby and the Chocolate Factory Art and Science Collide in the Handmade Truffles of Cocoa Tree Chocolates

22 Giving An Angel Its Wings The Angel of Hope Needs the Community’s Support to Soar

28 The Art of Healing Expressive Arts Therapist Sheri Gaynor on Uncovering the Curative Power of Our Creative Selves

34 Made with Love Six Questions for the Creative Family

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Lifestyle Letter

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Good Times

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Culinary Creations

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Light Up Carbondale Carbondale's final First Friday event of 2019 brought holiday cheer to scores of local families on December 6. Attendees enjoyed visiting with Santa, shopping at Deck the Walls holiday market inside the R2 Gallery, and listening to carols by the Roaring Fork High School Chamber Choir. PHOTOGRAPHY BY RENEE RAMGE AND LEWIS COOPER

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1. Glenwood Springs HS students Jared ‘Yuyu’ Cutting, Gerard Chavez, and Christopher Alvarado with Aspen Global Change Institute’s Elise Osenga (right).

Photo: AH | 2. Keynote speaker Barb Horn of CO Parks and Wildlife. Photo: SJ | 3. Glenwood Springs HS students with CO State Rep Perry Will (right).

Photo: SJ | 4. Anna Moon of Roaring Fork HS shares closing remarks. Photo: AH | 5. Pitkin County Healthy Rivers Board Chair Andre Wille. Photo: AH | 6.

Aspen Country Day School eighth graders. Photo: AH | 7. Aspen HS students (from left) Lily Jacobson , Ansel Whitley, Ben Godomsky, and Elliot Teague.

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CULINARY CREATIONS

A b by a n d t h e C h o c o l at e Fa cto ry

ART AND SCIENCE COLLIDE IN THE HANDMADE TRUFFLES OF COCOA TREE CHOCOLATES

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FOR ABBY MANDEL, LIFE IS INDEED LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES. Who could have predicted that a lifelong sweet tooth and a Ph.D. in taste perception science would lead her to becoming Carbondale’s new chocolate artist? Certainly not Mandel herself.

“I had no idea I’d be doing this,” she says.

“After my family moved here in 2013, I was still searching for my ‘place’ in the valley.

Once I started, though, I loved it. It felt right.”

Mandel has adored making desserts for as long as she can remember. At the age of three she began baking with her grandmother, and at eight she was doing cakes by herself. Her hobby blossomed into a passion, and soon a college-aged Mandel found herself debating whether to attend culinary school. She ultimately chose a more traditional path (that’s where the Ph.D. from Cornell comes in), but nowadays Mandel has found a pursuit that combines her degree and her experience with desserts to doubly sweet effect.

After

relocating

from

Philadelphia,

Mandel—like many a transplant before her— found high-altitude baking to be maddening.

So instead she swapped flour and pesky leavening agents for chocolate, and in 2018 decided to make holiday gifts of homemade truffles for her neighbors. They were a hit.

“A neighbor asked if I had a business,” she recalls. “I didn’t, but that idea stuck with me. I thought, why not?”

Within weeks, Mandel began testing recipes and experimenting with flavor combinations;

by April 2019, she had decided to make a go of it. Her Cocoa Tree Chocolates rolled out a soft launch in September, and by Christmas she was churning out approximately 1,400 truffles per week. That’s a lot of hand-poured, handpainted chocolatey goodness.

And her unusual flavors—Ginger and Toasted Sesame, Grasshopper, Banana Bread, and Sachertorte, to name a few— how does she come up with them? This is where the art of chocolate truly collides with Mandel’s background in the science of how we experience taste.

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CIULINARY CRE ATIONS (CONTINUED)

“I draw flavor combinations from different backgrounds. Some are more traditional and then there are others that I just like and think sound good—those are more of an experiment,” she says. “Genes determine how we taste things, but health and our sense of smell are factors, too. Smell actually comes into it hugely, because taste plus smell equals flavor.”

Mandel has subjected some (ahem, very lucky) friends and family to the taste-testing of her flavor concoctions to determine which ones stand out.

“Once I made a peppered apricot one, and about half couldn’t taste the pepper and thought it was bad...but the other half liked it,” she says. “Ultimately I didn’t go with that one!”

New flavors that did pass the test include five-spice hazelnut crunch, meyer lemon with pistachio, peach jasmine, and passionfruit coconut. Mandel makes nearly all of her fillings from scratch, uses fine Valrhona and Callebaut chocolate to encapsulate each flavor bomb, and finishes every truffle with vibrant splashes of color by hand.

Consider your Valentine’s Day gifting done. Mandel’s creations can be ordered online at CocoaTreeCarbondale.com, but they’re also available in boxes of various sizes at The Launchpad through February 14.

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GIVING AN ANGEL ITS WINGS THE ANGEL OF HOPE HAS BEEN YEARS IN THE MAKING. NOW, ITS CREATOR NEEDS THE COMMUNITY’S SUPPORT TO SEE IT SOAR

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AFTER THE TRAGIC DEATH IN 2014 OF HER DAUGHTER ANNA WILSON, ARTIST DIANE ORLOV HAD A LIFE-CHANGING DREAM. In it, she was being led by an angel, who gave her hope and direction in the midst of despair and loneliness. This dream motivated her, and in the years since, Orlov has been working with hundreds of Roaring Fork Valley residents to manifest her dream angel into a tangible one. As a result, her Angel of Hope Mosaic Project was born.

“After Anna’s death,” explains Orlov, “I could feel how isolating grief, loss, and trauma were, so I had to create connections around me. I want to do that with this angel and give people a more magical, joyful place to put their memories by creating an art piece that will someday inspire other families and communities.” She ultimately hopes it will serve as a beacon of light for others, who find themselves grappling with their own losses.

The first step in realizing Orlov’s dream was to work with children and adults from local

schools,

non-profit

organizations,

and interfaith congregations to create over 400 unique, meaningful mosaics that will eventually form the larger angel. This was important to Orlov because, in the words of project board member and friend Allyn Harvey, “She has overcome personal loss by reaching out to so many children and adults and asking them to think about the angels in their lives. Her story is one of hope.” Each artist has contributed to this story with their own designs, choosing from an assortment of semi-precious stones and adhering them onto squares of drywall mesh tape, which were placed in the middle of paper plates. Afterward, each participant wrote a sentence or two on a notecard, explaining the reasoning behind the work. Orlov has archived all of the individual mosaics in crates, where they’ve been awaiting their CONTINUED >

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OPEN HOUSE (CONTINUED) Architect Michael Fuller's plans, complete with benches and planters, place the Angel facing southeast toward Blake Avenue.

turns to be incorporated into the larger angel mosaic via careful finger grouting. When the 9’x13’ work is completed, it will be a beautiful piece of community art erected atop a gentle slope between St. Stephen Catholic Church and St. Stephen Catholic School, located across the street from Valley View Hospital.

When Father Bert Chilson presented the project to parish and school leadership, he says the response was “universally positive and supportive.” Considering its proximity to the hospital, he also points out that “its location will hopefully draw the attention of those seeking consolation and peace in the midst of hurt and unknowing.”

By visiting the Angel of Hope, which will be lit up at night, or spending time in solitude in the prayer garden surrounding it, a person will have a chance to reflect on the timeless truism that even out of brokenness, one can find beauty.

Three of the mosaics were created by siblings Emily, Anna, and Bridget Carrington, whose older brother Evan didn’t make it home to Glenwood Springs after his day trip to Denver on June 20, 2016—five days short of his 19th birthday. According to their mother Jane Carrington, “Having a memorial with tiles hand-made by Evan’s family brings us such joy; he is remembered not only in our hearts, where he will never be forgotten, but for all to see.” Once the angel is installed, Evan’s sisters will be able to visit it and point out their artistic contributions to friends and family, as well as read their statements in the project’s companion book—all of which will keep the memory of their brother alive.

The angel’s surrounding structure, designed by Basalt architect Michael Fuller, will break ground this summer; however, because the project has been privately funded so far, and is not a commissioned piece, it still needs a lot of financial support.

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A BUTTERFLY MOSAIC

BY EMILY CARRINGTON, IN MEMORY OF HER BROTHER EVAN WHO PASSED AWAY IN 2016.

ORLOV USES SUCH SEMIPRECIOUS STONES AS TURQUOISE, AMETHYST, AGATE, JADE, TOURMALINE, AND LABRADORITE.

Board member Harvey explains that “the project has come very far on a very limited budget, and a lot of volunteer time from Diane. Now, we are in a phase where we need to raise real money to make it all happen. Ideally, we’ll raise about $150,000 to pay for the skilled artisanship needed to put all the pieces together, and for the labor and materials needed to build the site.”

For anyone interested in making sure that this dream comes true, there are a couple options. First, a check (with Compassion Aspen/Angel of Hope in the memo) can be dropped off at any Alpine Bank location.

Otherwise, it’s possible to find out more either by liking the project on Facebook (Angel of Hope – Roaring Fork Valley) or by visiting AngelOfHopeMosaicProject.com.

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hears this all the time. In more than three

book for potential places of employment.

decades working as an expressive arts thera-

“There were really limited resources for mental

pist and licensed clinical social worker, she has

health at that time,” she remembers. “It was much

seen innumerable clients who don’t believe they

different than what we have in the valley today.

possess any creative talent—certainly none that

I called the one center I found, Aspen Mental

could aid their own healing and growth.

Health, and asked if they had any openings.”

Gaynor’s passion is showing them otherwise.

They did. As fate would have it, the center

“Somebody long ago told them they’re not

had an immediate opening and Gaynor was

an artist,” she says. “Maybe it was a teacher

hired. She’s lived in the valley ever since, and

or parent, when they were just a child—and

her work has evolved and taken new directions

that kind of thing sticks with a person over a

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DreamWeaver Sunday. This year, Gaynor will

after it has been suppressed for so long, it kind

mentor and guide others to her field through

of explodes out of them.”

local expressive arts facilitator trainings.

And that, Gaynor says, is where the healARTICLE CAITLIN CAUSEY

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ing begins.

“It’s so amazing to be able to offer people different modalities that help them access dif-

“I want people to experience themselves in

ferent parts of themselves,” she says. “It gets

a way they’ve never seen themselves before,”

us out of the verbal circles we’re all familiar

she adds.

with—to express and find meaning in ways we

A long-time Roaring Fork Valley resident,

hadn’t thought possible.”

Gaynor grew up in New York and finished grad-

If you, too, have never thought of yourself

uate school in Florida before two old friends

as creative, Gaynor would invite you to recon-

invited her to visit Aspen in the late 1980s.

sider. Here is a simple exercise to kickstart

“They said, you’ll love it here, you should

the creative process in your own life this year,

move here because there’s only one stoplight,”

through one of her favorite and most accessi-

she recalls with a laugh. Gaynor agreed to

ble modes of expression: collage.

"I have crates full of visual journals that have become artifacts of my life journey," says Gaynor.

The 15-Minute Energy in Motion Intuitive Collage Supplies: Magazines, a glue stick, 8x10 copy paper or sketchbook, scissors (optional)

+ Step One: “Carve out some quiet time for yourself and/or your family.

Light a candle and create a sacred container. Have your supplies laid out and ready to go,” Gaynor says.

+ Step Two: “Take a minute or two and connect with your body through your breath. Scan your body. What are you feeling? What do you notice?

You will take these feelings into the next step.”

+ Step Three: “Set a timer for three minutes. Find images that reflect the feelings you identified in your body scan. These images can be positive, negative, or both. Don’t censor or judge what comes.”

+ Step Four: “Now set your timer for seven minutes. Take your images and add them to the page with your glue stick. I prefer ripping my imagery over using scissors, as it keeps me out of a perfection mindset and it’s actually somewhat meditative.”

+ Step Five: “Finally, take three minutes and quickly write about what came forward during this activity. Date your collage, and give it a title, and place it somewhere you will be able to interact with it for the next week.”

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WHAT’S IT LIKE TO WORK SO CLOSELY TOGETHER? Chemerisov: “Both rewarding and challenging. My mother has taught art classes from home for decades, and with my father’s clients coming over for photo shoots, we were used to business being done at home. Because we are so close, we aren’t immune to butting heads. This usually motivates us to find new approaches to communication and respect, with our love always at the center.”

YANIKA, WHAT IS YOUR ARTS BACKGROUND? Chemerisov: “Starting with ballet at age three and continuing dancing through childhood, I then found theater at Hollywood Performing Arts High School. I went on to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theater from UC Santa Barbara, and moved home to Hollywood to work in the entertainment industry. I fell in love with folk dance and world music, studied bellydancing, and spent a year in Egypt. I now teach acting, yoga, and dance from various cultures.”

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