Mariellen
Chapdelaine - 9 - Emergent Point - The
Moon Pit -- mixed media 28.5" x 21"
Artist’s
Statement – Mariellen Chapdelaine
Feeling compelled to create spontaneous shapes
in various arrays of color with emphasis on detail and texture
was where I began. The details, like Fibonacci’s code, led
to smaller details which mimicked the large, while the big picture
appeared an insinuation and iteration of the tiny. I understood
an inherent intelligence was realizing itself in this work which
is ‘beyond me’. As a laborer, my job is to configure
the forms in whatever medium works to convey the amalgamated concepts
which visit me.
I have been a student of the I Ching for forty-some years and
an avid admirer of Carl Jung. I learn to unlearn. As a persistent
ponderer of synchronicity, I understand the ominous depths that
reliance on chance can lead to, and the impossible logic of simultaneously
believing and not believing the same thing at the same time. I
concluded this was not only possible but desirable since polar
opposites exists only in relation to each other. Why shouldn’t
the human brain which created names for this symmetry also experience
them firsthand?
My artistic process and the work I’ve created are the result
of this thought. I am inspired almost exclusively by I Ching Hexagrams
which to me convey emotionally logical and highly specific types
of shapes or imagery which I transfer most often to heavy paper
and sometimes to transparency paper. The next step for a given
piece is to photograph and study the base layer and reread the
hexagram to identify core energies and the values which are conveying
themselves. Subsequent layers, as few as three or as many as twenty,
emerge spontaneously in a mental visual picture which I then translate
into doable manual actions. I create smaller pieces to incorporate,
sometimes doing deep research into the evolution of the Hexagram
to locate a layer of ‘meaning’ and its symbols, sometimes
drawing or developing graphic imagery which usually alludes to
a natural element or an obscure reference..
Mariellen Chapdelaine -- 57
- Subtle Penetration -- mixed media 21"
x 17"
Joe Fekieta -- It's
Happening All Over the Place -- color-pencil-drawing
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Artist’s
Statement – Joseph Fekieta
The 45 images
in the “It’s Happening” series are an abstract
interpretation of the esoteric process of reproduction. Included
in this
theme are concepts of fertilization, growth, transformation, decay
and death that are demonstrated through invented life forms and
sometimes their life cycles. The colored ribbons in all the images
function as the unexplainable energy which enables the reproductive
process to mysteriously begin and continuously grow. The black
ribbons assist the reproductive process on its journey and guides
it past many obstacles during its many evolutionary stages.
The images
are titled with frequently-used cliches obtained from the American
vernacular to appropriately explain each drawings reproductive
narrative. The narratives work as symbolic representations for
pedestrian social issues that permeate human cultures and require
relentless engagement to manage and sustain civilization all
as a result of the reproductive process.
Joe
Fekieta -- It's Happening to Access Desperately
Needed Resources -- color pencil drawing 14
