Murmur

collections of artist statement from previous shows

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Newt

It is raining again. The damp air is stuck on the skin and your body disintegrates into it, so it becomes the whole scenery. It is very quiet here. The entire scenery becomes flat like a painted wall and your body becomes a part of it. The numbers of layers of coated surface are partly washed off by the rain over time and patches of memory gradually appear. You don’t know which layer it is. Sometimes primary colour appears underneath the layers. It recalls the memories we have long forgotten. The blurred images of something become visible out of blue. It is not a part of paint. It is the image which you have just created.  What do you see?  It is just like a crawling newt in the dark wall, creeping into your mind.

 You paint the wall again made out of your everyday life, nothing special, nothing out of ordinary, but there are a number of signs inside. You do not have to see them right now. It is probably not the right moment. You paint the wall again and bury them between the layers without realising what you have buried.

In the middle of the night, you wake up. You see a small creature quickly running into the darkest corner of the ceiling. It may have made a little noise, may not have, It woke you up and now It has gone. Your eyes slowly move down to your little corner table. There is a small glass vase with a tulip stem. Someone gave it to you two days ago. It is wide open now. As you look at it, one of the petals falls off. A moment of beauty, it evokes something very pleasant inside of you. You smile and fall asleep again.

I Will Rejoice. If you want to be lifted up and get a blessing watch and listen.

Georgia O’Keeffe said it best when she said, “I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” Her paintings would not be what they are today if she hadn’t experienced fear and painted anyway, alongside that fear. She didn’t try to deny fear or avoid it; she acknowledged it, and then worked alongside of it to create the work she came here to do. And so must you.

I came across this article in BlogLovin and was inspired. Jinna Yang: This young lady and her writing inspired me. Well worth the read.  Thankyou Jinna for your inspiration. 

1. Live for yourself.

Who will you need to answer to thirty years from now, when you look in the mirror with a face full of regret, wishing you had pursued the things that your soul craved?

No one else but you.

Yes, we all have responsibilities, and society has told us that being “responsible” is ___________________.  But what about responsibility for our happiness?  Taking care of ourselves?  Doing what makes us feel free?

You don’t have to be held back anymore.

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“Every now and again, you will feel a dull ache in your soul. A gentle humming around your heart. A longing for something without a name. If I ever told you to obey anything, this would be it.

Listen to the call of your authentic self. That part of you that lives just outside of your own skin. Let it have its way with you.

I have died a hundred times trying to ignore it.”

-Mia Hollow

Let all of that weight go.  Anything that holds you back should not be a part of your everyday life.  Take space from these people to make room for others that uplift you, support you and genuinely want to see you thrive.  It’s not going to be easy, after all – it is a change, and change is difficult. But if you truly want to become your best self, you will need to learn how to walk away from the things that do not serve you.

Louise Bourgeois

She'll put a spell on you

I am 70 this year and I found the works of Louise Bourgeois at 70. I need to get busy and create. 

Louise Bourgeois was a French-born painter, sculptor, and printmaker who first exhibited her work at the Brooklyn Museum Print Exhibition in 1939. Although Bourgeois was very close to the Abstract Expressionists, with whom she frequently socialized and worked, her work was never abstract. Instead, her strange forms, which depict things such as spiders, architectural forms such as houses and cages, and the human body, explored themes of loneliness, conflict, frustration, vulnerability, sexual desire, and love. 

Originally creating sculptures out of wood, marble, and bronze, Bourgeois began using non-traditional media such as latex and plaster in the 1960s, in some cases lifting the works off the ground to hang from the ceiling. By the 1970s, it became clear that her work, often sexually explicit and emotionally daring, had pioneered a new movement of postmodern and feminist art. By the end of the 20th century, she was known as one of the most important female artists of her generation.  On the occasion of her death, in 2010, The New York Times summed up her œuvre by saying that it "shared a set of repeated themes, centered on the human body and its need for nurture and protection in a frightening world."

"Like curious voyeurs we can look into the cracks and lines of her life and be inspired."