Thursday, September 12, 2013

'DENIAL' Knowing so much yet understanding so little)

'DENIAL'
(Knowing so much yet understanding so little)

'I'VE JUST RETURNED FROM A BRISK LITTLE WALK IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, WHERE I HAPPENED TO NOTICE TWO RATHER PLAIN, (BUT BRIGHT-EYED) GREY DOVES ON THE TARMAC, NODDING THEIR LITTLE HEADS AT EACH OTHER, INDICATING TOWARDS THE UNEXPECTED PUDDLE OF WATER IN FRONT OF THEM..... I COULDN'T HELP BUT THINK HOW SHORT THEIR LIFE SPAN WAS, AND YET, HOW THEY HAD MANAGED TO REACH SUCH MATURITY AS FAR AS THEIR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE WAS CONCERNED. THEY WERE PLANNING A MORNING DIP INTO A DELIGHTFUL LIQUID POOL THAT REFLECTED THE BLUE SKY AND A FEW DRIFTING CLOUDS.......WHILST ELSEWHERE, IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE, ARROGANT, 'INTELLIGENT' HUMANS, ARE SCHEMING AND PLOTTING TO WIPE OUT OR MAIM THEIR OWN KIND, WITH-OUT EVER HAVING HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE OR SHARE, THE GIFTS OF NATURE WITH EACH OTHER. '


Saturday, September 7, 2013

‘COSMORGANIC: EMERGENCE’



                                 ‘COSMORGANIC: EMERGENCE’ 
oil on canvas 
600 x 500mm
2002-2004



Some thoughts:

COSMORGANIC: Fusion of the cosmos (infinite) with the organic (finite).

'EMERGENCE': The butterfly or Papillon is the perfect metaphor for 'the organic'. 
The caterpillar withdraws from ‘visible’ life and entombs itself in its cocoon. Similarly the artist withdraws from life and entombs herself in her studio.
The place of withdrawal (death, social death) becomes the birthplace (place of transformation), from where the newly transformed, creation (Papillon or work of art), emerges.
Surrounded by chaotic order, it emerges in perfect, intricate simplicity, ready to fly into and ignite the imaginations of whosoever comes into contact with it.

The artist explores impossible acts of tolerance during the art/act of creation where TIME + TOLERANCE + APPLICATION = the intricate and methodical transformation of an idea and the subsequent emergence of an original work of art.

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