Discerning the Ego

Monday, December 13, 2010

Sacred Places















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Place and Line


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Labels: watercolor and charcoal on paper and ink on vellum

Breaking molds


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I am interested in interactions around me; observing the push and pull that the environment has on us, interactions between humans, and relationships within our bodies are what drive me as a person. However, how many of these interactions don't come through in words? What are you saying with your thoughts, your mood, heart, energy and body?

Artist Amy Stillman expresses my thoughts best when she says,

"Every day I welcome the raw, the goofy, the urgent, the eccentric, the disrupting, the associative and dissociative, the distracted, the embarrassing, the transient, the interesting, and the fearsome into my life, and language is the welcome mat, the first translation device from the body of sensate cues I intuit. Painting is a physical thinking process to continue an interior dialogue, way to engage in a kind of internal discourse, or sub-language, mumbling, rambling, a stream of thought, murmuring, thinking out loud, naming, uttering, a voice in your head. So language is not just a cognitive device, a ground of critique, a pedagogical mechanism, a negotiable social structure."

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T Birrell
My experiences growing up in the beautiful Berkshire hills of Massachusetts influence me everyday. My upbringing there taught me to appreciate locally grown food, hiking in the fall foliage, getting lost Sunday drives, and the simple pleasure of waking up to see nothing but trees and smelling fresh dew on grass. Now that I am older and far away from everything familiar, I appreciate the way I grew up and how living in a small town brought me down to earth to recognize the simple pleasures of life. I am currently attending school in the west and was accepted into the Fine Arts program there. I am soaking up every opportunity to figure out why I do the art that I do and what makes it mine. We all have a need to create. How can I create something that is mine and something that others can enjoy and learn something about as well? This is my goal in my art making and this is what drives me as a person.
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