Project Description
AUTUMN SKYE
“These are strange times. Uncertain and bewildering times, fraught with dread and ripe with potential. In moments of reckoning, revolution, and re-creation, I feel more than ever the importance of art.
Art is both trivial and essential. Simply put, a painting is colourful mud smeared on fabric, pretty and trite images for our fickle amusement. And simultaneously, it has the potential to move mountains, individually and culturally. It can heal emotional trauma, cure illness, and bring renewed vitality and joy. It can awaken and empower both the artist and the viewer and connect straight to the subconscious. It can speak truth and shine light on critical issues. It can start revolutions, shift paradigms, and offer visions of grand potential and solutions, paths toward healing and wholeness.
Throughout history, society has looked to the arts to guide and inspire our individual and collective narratives. Artwork has the capacity to be an anchor in the storm and a touchstone of beauty amid an otherwise bleak reality. While the world is at the precipice of momentous change, artworks have the potential to be maps that can help guide humanity into new and positive ways of seeing and being.
And so I offer my art to you, from my heart to yours, with the prayer that it may touch some part of you and spark your own creative passion. May it fan in you the flame of peaceful revolution and timely change. We have so much work to do, and while I don’t presume to know what your unique piece of the puzzle is, I am grateful to you for playing your part. Only you know what makes your spirit sing, and only you can claim it for yourself in order to share it with the world. Thank you for smiling at strangers, for growing food, for nurturing children, for pioneering political reform, for creating music, for writing love letters, for making artwork.