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photo credit: Lorin Klaris
The Lover, 2020, oil pastels on 19 x 25 paper
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We Need One Another
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Artist Statement
I am a visual artist and writer and divide my time between N.Y.C, Miami, and Shelter Island, NY. Whether I work with soft pastels on recycled cotton rag paper (shizen paper), acrylic on canvas, iPhoneography or video, under the umbrella of ecology and spirituality, I explore liminality, animism, cosmic memory, divine feminine, and transformation.
My tree stories series are abstract works inspired by trees I photograph during meditative walks and explore the idea of trees as receptacles of time; divine protectors of souls. Bark lines as cosmic hieroglyphics, a teaching to decipher. In addition to my Tree Stories, I am experimenting with a series of studies, an intuitive, non-brush, spiritual, tactile practice. A manual painting process using my hands, fingers, plastic wrap and acrylic paint on canvas. The wrap then gets up-cycled into new art on paper or cardboard. These paintings are naive, abstract, impressionistic landscapes inspired by the beauty in Shelter Island, NY., the place I call home. The process for each painting, is active and fluid and dependent on the time it takes for the paint to dry. They intend to capture the ephemeral feeling of a place or time through the impressions of memory, not photographs. This new approach is an exercise in playfulness and freedom, two essential components of my aesthetic philosophy. It is my hope that, through my art, I bring awareness to the climate crisis and awaken a sense of intimacy with our living planet. My artwork calls the viewer to see trees and all non-human forms as beings, sacred and necessary for the health of our planet and spirit. |
Photo by Lorin Klaris
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