Marcie Rohr

My art practice is a visual journal in progress. Each work refers to my lived experience; exploring what it means to be conscious in a material body. It’s not about making a fixed statement. As I paint in an intuitive way, I do so with an attitude of curiosity and receptivity toward what is stirring below the surface of sensory perception.

Creative impulses inside me grow wildly - branching out in all directions. My art practice is rooted in the habit of cultivating ideas, and my attempt to make sense of them. The painting process becomes a tangible manifestation of this interior process, of adding and subtracting, one step forward, two back. Every painting is a conversation, idea, argument, or lament in progress. Nothing is fixed, everything is turning and folding in on itself, bobbing above and below the surface of consciousness, sometimes sinking, sometimes rising above.

BFA, Emily Carr University, 2021

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