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by Emily McLaughlin
$26.00
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A large canvas that took many, many hours to complete, “The Garden” grows, births new life, decays and dies all at the same time. Compost fuels... more
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A large canvas that took many, many hours to complete, “The Garden” grows, births new life, decays and dies all at the same time. Compost fuels nutrients from the dead to the living. Plant, animal and human shapes blend together in a blur of organic forms. In the middle, flying creatures take to the air untethered to the ground but dependent on its sustenance as much as a rooted plant. Humans seed, gestate and are born as do insects, reptiles, and flowers. The same shapes appear in plants and human bodies. Towards the center, a rattlesnake with a golden rattle coils on a wondrous cobra lily Arisaema griffithii. Life and death go on vigorously and beautifully.
Animating my art are two desires: to illustrate myth- images that suggest dreams and stories from the collective stream of consciousness, and to keep an ambiguous familiarity with mortality, that mystifying and often terrifying essence of ourselves, where celebrating life and embracing the equal reality of death entwine. The mix of collage and oil paint is a way for me to assemble an idea out of disparate parts, partly expressed through its process. Collage is a process of collision and re-creation. I appreciate rough, cut edges, the feel of different papers, the build-up of oil paint strokes and ridges. Photos in our media and daily life are an integral part of how we communicate information, ideas, and emotions. Incorporated into...
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Jeff Burgess
Emily, if you are not already, please consider joining the "Pacific Northwest Artists" group and submitting your wonderful art. I love it and find this piece emotive and 'alive'. Regards, Jeff L/f