VIEW IN MY ROOM
United States
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 30 W x 24 H x 0.5 D in
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My husband and I have hiked in so many forests around the USA and world. We currently live in the Pacific northwest where the trees are incredibly beautiful and lush. We even have several evergreens on our property for up close viewing. My work as an artist rarely asks me to paint such imagery, but I couldn't resist painting this forest as the backdrop for my question: "When innocence falls into negative behavior who is the witness?" It relates to the question "when a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to listen, does it make a sound?" Yes, the forest is also a metaphor for the "garden of Eden" where religion and mythology claim innocence was lost. I have difficulty believing that innocence can ever be lost. I tend to believe that innocence can transform into negative if it is overwhelmed with trauma, but I don't think that innocence itself can actually be lost because the innocent are the witness to their own fall into tragedy. The witness to innocence transforming into negativity has the power to transform it back, at which point negativity loses its power to ever threaten innocence again. My forest is untitled because ultimately it is the state of potential where innocence can fall like a tree, but forgiveness offers another chance like the young trees that sprout from the stump of the fallen.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:30 W x 24 H x 0.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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I tell people that I paint God’s mistake which I know is controversial whether you are deeply religious or the opposite such as atheist. Yet my work is not about God, religion or atheism. My art is about the trauma associated with the inescapable relationship that mortality has with innocence. Our birth is not the intent of mortality, but it necessarily creates our personal annihilation. This personal destiny leaves each of us vulnerable to condemning our connection with innocent others who “created us to die” without our permission. Our “error” is our ownership of blame for mortality which is not the power over death; it is our power over cruelty. This inescapable destiny is where my art begins its expression(s). MY ART I use the ancient form of 2-D art to represent TIME as broken yet unfinished and continuing. Like the backside of a hung painting, we are absent before our birth and brought into reality through “others” who have marked our canvas of life already. Once born we see ourselves reflected on the "front side" of life yet witness our previous absence. My art examines this division as the relationship between hope and trust relevant to innocence. The change that each of us becomes by birth is a natural expression from life that we can perceive as a tradition of change. My art celebrates this with my rotation of mediums, vivid colors, energetic brush strokes, narratives of time-conflict, emotional dichotomies, vortex compositions showing our inescapable connection to a fractured reality, rhetorical word-play, and weapons symbolizing our relationship with mortal vulnerability. My “signature” is broken mirrors that capture the WITNESS as part of my art reminding us of our entitlement to mortal existence.
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