Paintings are elusive like chimeras. They invite complicity.
The artist communicates his own vision as he puts paint to canvas. Yet the viewer brings his individual experience to the interchange. Together, they create a rich, unspoken dialogue. Thus the image shares a new and very personal identity with each person who sees it.
There are thousands of paintings by some 750 worldwide artists on the Novica website. Their impact cuts across cultural boundaries and speaks a pure language of sensation.
I often wonder what the elephant artists intended to convey. Perhaps nothing more – and nothing less – than a very primal joy.
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Friday, April 6, 2007
Choices and changes
Blog? Why would anyone read my blog? Besides, I'm a blog virgin.
But I've always taken the road less traveled. My choices have always been different ones. And so this Florida native who grew up barefoot and blissful on the warm Gulf shores is living in the Mexican sierra. And loving it.
Some people who are very dear to me asked me to share a bit of myself online, so here I am.
When I was in kindergarten, my teacher and parents decided I was destined to be an artist. All my life I had paints and charcoal, canvases and clay, even looms and a potter's wheel to explore my creativity. But in college, I was drawn to anthropology as I spent more and more time in the Yucatan. I linked both passions in my senior thesis – an iconographic analysis of classic Maya art with field drawings done in Palenque.
Today I have a dream job… I write. And I use that experience in art and anthropology every day in my work. Novica is probably the most meaningful job I've ever had. I've personally witnessed how artisans are empowered and their extraordinary work is appreciated all over the world.
I invite you to take a look.
But I've always taken the road less traveled. My choices have always been different ones. And so this Florida native who grew up barefoot and blissful on the warm Gulf shores is living in the Mexican sierra. And loving it.
Some people who are very dear to me asked me to share a bit of myself online, so here I am.
When I was in kindergarten, my teacher and parents decided I was destined to be an artist. All my life I had paints and charcoal, canvases and clay, even looms and a potter's wheel to explore my creativity. But in college, I was drawn to anthropology as I spent more and more time in the Yucatan. I linked both passions in my senior thesis – an iconographic analysis of classic Maya art with field drawings done in Palenque.
Today I have a dream job… I write. And I use that experience in art and anthropology every day in my work. Novica is probably the most meaningful job I've ever had. I've personally witnessed how artisans are empowered and their extraordinary work is appreciated all over the world.
I invite you to take a look.
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