ARTIST STATEMENT
A visionary requires the breadth of patience to render his evolution of artistry.
Historic evidence of man’s earliest forms of self expression, displayed spiritual attributes of his genius to develop the link for languages, as well, to craft tangible resources that were used for barter. Man’s fortune is his inherent capacity for invention.
An artists' creations assimilates his intuitive premise of discovery. The unexpected mistake, or trial of an idea, evokes new challenges to correlate the skills with his choice of medium. Often bearing distinctive results that excites his intrepid passion.
As a child, my hands facilitated creativity of how my mind was wandering. Without formal art training, I was compelled to arrange found objects into complex statements. The first hands-on medium I explored with was clay (age 8). I discovered that by making figurative pieces with altered positions, was an introduction for me to eye the relationship of the human body to sculpture.
We mirror our muses, as the ego must speak endlessly.
Being a self-taught artist, I developed the skill to utilize the laptop’ computer’s integral photo editing program. This formative discipline became my choice of medium for creative processes. (February, 2016).
In 2009, late into the evening hours in a barely lit room, I eased into a bath of water, immediately to observe the shimmer of light of the full moon’s reflection rippling around me. My impulse to photograph these reflections, prompted an intrigue with the subject of light.
I decided that by using digital photography as a resource, I could assemble a series of images (files) that emanate light, eventually to re-format by manipulation on the computer as “illuminated visions.” Or, a favored term out of context, alchemy, the magical transformation in progressive processes.
The complexity, and delight of this artistic work, is to comprehend that I do not have editing control over the impact of the pixels response to technical manipulation; sequentially to discern visual fractal results that have potential of a story to tell.
The material I originally chose to print the file’s images on, is archival treated (recycled) aluminum. The interest to print on metal, are the refractive properties which emphasize the inherent light’ luminescence of each print. Ideally this product is suited as “environmental art”, which allows for dual purpose installations; the proposal that photography could reside outdoors.
With my current body of work, I am exploring different museum quality papers to print on.
Insight:
Living insulated from societal everyday life’ activity, in a rainforest environment, I acclimated to the rhythm of nature’s own cycles of presence. Subjective to comment, the aura of my particular artworks, tends to imply a natural spirit’ genera, or otherworldly aesthetics.
The hope in inspiration of an art presentation, is to engage one to seek a message, or a narrative suggested by the name of the works of art. Impromptu reactions are the intent of any artist's work. My aspiration is to persuade escapism, or to respond to the proposed conditions of unspoken truths of dire need for justice.
Art is liberation for all humanity.
Petrushka - edited 5/2022
2020
An edition of commentary about the art I create.
In the fall of 2018, several discoveries were made utilizing the built-in MacBook Pro program, Preview. I was not familiar with its optimum potential, however inspired, as I sought new means to accentuate my artwork with the mouse technologies, by doing overlay with “free hand” graffiti drawing, or with hand drawn or preset geometric shapes. And more recent *montage results, by image layering.
Primitive within the confines (computers programs) for art production, in that the available technologies (APPS) could be downloaded to do this work, but I facilitated an access by use of the builtin systems.
Currently for me what is an extraordinary wealth for subject matter, is established on the Web, Wikipedia. Highlighted are the facts all things are connected; from the finite of a single cell, to the merit of man’s earliest wealth of storytelling, by mythologies instilling imaginative powers that pivot on their archetype’s attributes, languages of science’s complexities, that the novice can dwell on by today’s myriad of technologie’s visual interpretations.
…Determining by prudent urgency tugging on my spirit, is our whole world’ evolution reflecting extinction, which is compelling to us in creative ways for expression; that all visual angles can be interpreted in concept, and of emotional display.
Being a humanitarian, a conservation steward, and a gentle natured woman; I try to breach my codes of comfort for making art, to provoke responses. I am loyal to my perspectives, if I see art I am making that does not resonate with my instincts, I fuss over it to seek my own voice.
Petrushka
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