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MIND-SCAPES
I found that artful objects without context were too limited. I needed to locate that broader context in myself - as a way of better framing my emotions. The logic of narrative fell short too. I wanted the story - my story - to be absorbed into a more expansive inner world. Granted that this world was more magical and mystical even ... but it was not so limiting. Emotions rooted like this in the soil of the inner world animate themselves and me along with them. My brushes are my roots ... pushing their way out of the darkness and into the light.
NEVER MISS A SUNSET
I traveled around the world to trace the sunsets. The most beautiful sunsets are always the ones
you see from the heart. Their silence and stillness are beyond words. It is the mystery.
Open your heart, let the mystery touch you. It's everything, everything.
DEEP SEA
Even as a child in China, I was drawn to the sea. The deep, the blue and the mysterious has always called to me. Walking along the Northern coastline with my young son and collecting things and creatures left at the water's edge, I began a series of painting based on what I saw and collected along the shore. I studied these forms extensively before painting them, and so undertook a process of humanizing these objects and creatures to reflect the deeper and more unspoken aspects of my experience ... a mix of soft fantasy and hard fact. These works were shaped by what I experienced in myself as feminine, graceful and passionate. This is how I learned to make art my own.
