Gold Rain On Burial Ground

I used leftover stone and reclaimed wood to create the landscape of a Zen Garden (Honorable mention, 2019). Gold paint is the latest addition to my work of a burial ground made up of four parts: the self, the person, the living soul, and the being reunited in their resting place. The four selves are a recurring theme in my work.

From Landscapes to Mindscapes Archives - National Association of Women Artists, Inc. | NAWA

May 1 to May 31, 2023

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Dune after dune, mountain after mountain, appears on the road to Turfan in the rocky, golden, black, and red sand desert drawn by the wind. Men, women, and children are busy working in the oases. Rows of white birch trees crisscrossed vineyards and corn fields. Mines and brick factories are scattered. Impressive sand sculptures stand in the midst of flatness and dazzling emptiness under the sun chased by a trail of clouds. Drilling machines multiply on the horizon with their ceaseless movement from top to bottom.

Life is a desert stripped of truth that offers mirages to the eye. Our bodies carry the collective memory, a legacy of passage. Our souls are built on our ancestors' ashes, from earthly dust floating and flying in spasms and ellipses. Energy moves in spirals. Through the power of art, creative energy dances in the hands of the artist. A multiform energy tirelessly forms, deforms, and reforms from visible to invisible, known to unknown, archetype to prototype. From the Unconscious springs archaic beauty through schematization and extreme simplification. From the eye of the canoe to the entrance of the Cave of Origins...

From the unique to the multiple, the diaspora of my senses disperses... Life, like the frail existence of spring flowers, buds then withers in an uninterrupted cycle of reproduction. To the five senses of smell, hearing, sound, touch, and taste, we must add the stimuli that set in motion the perceptions felt at all levels by our receptors, the sensory pathways captured by the brain which translates on the keyboard of our sensory cortex, the perception of heat and pain, the sense of proprioception defined by the perception we have of the activity and movement of our bodies and the sense of balance established by the vestibular system. To those abilities are added, in the animal kingdom, echolocation, magnetoception and electroception.