Post by Tony Shutts, Charisma's president:
I thought I would share a little about the "inside" of Charisma. We strive to create wholesome, high quality, and irresistible products at a great value. Not surprisingly, the core values of Charisma are creativity, teamwork, enthusiasm, excellence, and integrity. Rather than simply putting the core values down on paper and filing them away, we wanted them up on a wall in our workspace to give us inspiration on a daily basis.
I decided to call upon a Laguna Beach, California-based artist friend of mine, Dianne Aoki, to create some art for us. Dianne has taught art at my kid's school for many years and I have always admired her work. I explained to Dianne what we were trying to do and after a number of visits (including visits with our team and important solo visits from her after hours that allowed her to connect to our workspace), she created six paintings which hang prominently together on our wall. The paintings are a graphic representation of our core values and contain symbols that reflect our values in various cultures. Since we are a global company with artists, suppliers, and talent scattered around the globe that are pulled together by a desire to create beautiful, cherished products, we drew upon various cultures to embody our values.
I hope you enjoy the paintings and Dianne's story behind them.
Tony
The six panels before you are a series of mixed-media paintings created to represent Charisma’s distinct values as well as charge the work environment with exuberance and compelling imagery. Inspired by the contemplative culture and vast landscape of Tibet, the colors here are deep and resonate particular attributes: The color red contributes to a sense of feeling grounded and connected, orange – balance and creativity, yellow – intuition and consciousness, green – love, compassion, and inspiration, blue – self expression and truth, indigo – wisdom and insight.
Further investigation leads one to the symbols:
Native American symbol for “enthusiasm”
African symbol for “charisma”
African symbol for “teamwork”
African symbol for “excellence"
The Sun, symbol for “creativity”
Chinese symbol for “integrity”
Artist Statement
Art embodies the power of inspiration, expansion, inquiry and healing and here brings an opportunity to reflect on its astounding ability to connect us all to a shared vision of global abundance & peace.
Laguna Beach, California
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