Move Makes Mission Lean and Focused

Looking from the offices this is the great room where so many Horizon Gate events have taken place. Click the photo to go to the real estate listing page.

The beautiful property in Julian has accomplished much for Horizon Gate over the last ten years. Now the vision calls for more simplicity and focus for our greatest accomplishments yet.

We are selling the Julian property to eliminate the liabilities of mortgage payments, maintenance, taxes, insurance and travel expenses. Though we have striven to keep the benefits of this retreat setting, the liabilities have begun to take attention, time and energy away from our mission which is the higher priority. Please help us spread the word to find the buyer who can take this property on from here. Click on Julian Property to see the listing with Tom Dunlap at Ascent Realty.

We are praying for a place which will better support our mission. Some of the key aspects we need are:

• a quiet place to write, compose, record and edit audio-visuals

• a production area for visual arts

• a location with quicker access to people and business than Julian

• property management which supports our mission by flexibility and low lease price

• facilities which accommodate both home and office/production area

These points require the right people at the right time and sufficient income. It takes faith and imagination to find more than just "whatever you can afford". Please employ your imagination to help us find the best situation so that we can get on with the exciting plans for Horizon Gate.

"To the Diggers" Film Revives Production

Above, one of Mark Turner's drawings for the combat section of the film "To the Diggers". (copyright 2011)

"To the Diggers" went into hiatus during the stage production of "The Little Prince" but now resumes its slow evolution.
The art work of the film has progressed through the poetic sound track depicting massive crowds, political campaigns, war, historic dictators and the news media. It now enters a sequence of human casualties in the wake of disasters.
Mark researches and draws all the pictures sometimes taking a whole day to complete one. He then scans the drawing and inserts it into the film using motion graphics to pan, zoom and apply special effects to it. Every visual is timed second-by-second to the spoken word, sound effects and music of the sound track.

A drawing by Mark Turner depicting rescuers aiding a victim of a natural disaster for the film "To the Diggers". (copyright 2011)

Completion of the film is projected within about two more months and then Mark begins the next short art film. Our goal is to produce a prototype collection of art films to demonstrate the Film Gallery Café where guests will view and discuss the films and framed art used in them. At the heart of our mission is the faith that our viewers will meet God both in our art and in the conversations it stimulates.

"Little Prince" Is Loved by All

In the photo above the Geographer (Donna Turner) talks with the Little Prince (Marjorie Oslie) in the reader's theater style stage adaptation of "The Little Prince". Mark Turner's artwork provides the backdrop for the scene in this audience view point photo by Shinichi Evans. Full view of the artwork below. (copyright 2011)

Horizon Gate collaborated with St.Paul's Cathedral Center for the Performing and Visual Arts in the production of "The Little Prince" based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Three performances took place February 16 - 18 in the chancel of the cathedral with most of the tickets sold and the final evening sold out. Donna played two characters and a narrator. Mark created drawings and digital art to provide 56 slides as projected backdrops for the play.

Mark Turner's artwork for the Geographer's Asteroid scene in the first photo above. (copyright 2011)