A paced life. My work in the four fold.

Most of the time when I sit down to do a painted piece, I have something of a vague mood in mind, or I will try to express the feeling or atmosphere in terms of weather, lighting, time of year, onto someone else.  My subjects and messages are concrete and easy to grasp, usually rural.  They express to the viewer that time is fleeting, take in what’s around you and the beauty of it, recognize and give thanks to a higher order, realize that this moment will be gone in the next moment, recognize the importance of this moment in your life as I am doing in seeing this moment before me.  There is always the underlying theme expressed to the viewer concerning the awareness of mortality in that they will one day pass from the natural beauty that surrounds them physically, but what is around them will remain after they‘ve looked away, left the area or died, and likewise there is the importance to me of expressing something like this perfectly, hopefully before I die. 

I rarely do interpretive or abstract pieces, although I am thinking that I might start trying to work in a more abstract sense. I’d like to be able to express quick moments, fleeting impressions, quick notions of weather, season and atmosphere, the quick glances that we sometimes have of our environment which transport us, that move us to a moment or two of reflection, contemplation, meditation, rest; images that would express an unthawing, a split second recognition of the immediacy of this very moment. 

These paintings or photos might pertain to cityscapes, urban systems, rushing through crowds, urgency, hurriedness, metro transportation systems, tunnels, darkness and then sunlight as we are moved along, the architectural details of city buildings, churches, banks, urban decay.  The value or direction is in expressing time as it relates to moving through space, going to our jobs, work and everyday life.  It comments on the cacophony of sensory information that comes to us when we multitask and live for everyone else before ourselves.  The viewer sees that their busy environment can be distracting, beautiful, loud, ignored, sensual, in the background and in the foreground all at once. 

My viewer of these works might say, “Her work makes me think about how disconnected the moments of my life become when I am overloaded, busy, rushed, burdened with long lists of chores, work, responsibilities, etc.  It also makes me understand that there is a certain  busy pace that I choose for myself, that in choosing to move at this pace, through fleeting seconds of light, shadow, confusion, distraction,  that I am energized and I’m energizing the pace and timing of my life, my work and the world around me.  There is no judgment made in the work because city living and city pace is a lifestyle choice that I don’t make comment on.  I let my audience make their own comments about their lifestyle choice, including the pace at which they live.