VISUAL ART
Who wanted to be a window dresser when they grew up? Me! -- I’ve always had a passion for arranging and setting things up --from the pictures hung on my walls to bulletin board displays to wildflower bouquets on my windowsills. In fact, I’ve spiraled through a lot of art-making on my life journey, but I didn’t think of myself as an artist til recently.
In 2006 I took a weeklong morning workshop called “Tending the Soul With Collage” at the Friends General Conference Gathering in Tacoma, WA. Delighted, I discovered collage can be a profound way to create visual meaning (long a frustration for me, as I had little training in drawing or painting).
In addition, I learned that my powerfully satisfying experience was based on the fascinating work of Seema Frost, author of Soul Collage. I particularly recommend her method of letting a created collage “speak” to you, by writing out whatever comes to you in the “voice” of that collage as “I am/we are the one/s who . . .” Since that initial workshop, I have run two different ongoing collage groups, first in Columbus, Ohio (to get involved, contact me), and currently at the Unitarian Church of Montreal.
For more details, contact me at carolinebp [at] sympatico [dot] ca. You can also see some of my other collages and nature photographs paired with haiku on the poetry page.
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I love this quote, gleaned from the website of my longtime friend and river walker, Christina MacEwan. Check out her very beautiful and moving artwork, plus her wise words about the process of making art . . . christinamacewensculpture.ca
“What artists do is make a particularly skillful selection of fragments of cosmos, . . . bits chosen and arranged to give an illusion of coherence and duration amidst the uncontrollable streaming of events. An artist makes the world her world. An artist makes her world the world.” - Ursula LeGuin, Dancing at the Edge of the World
Where are you on your own spiral journey?
Share your thoughts at carolinebp [at] sympatico [dot] ca.
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