On se repete

Ces photos sont deja sur mon blog familial. Je me repete. Bien sur j'utilise le programme du Mac pour les effets visuels.

Just for Audrey

A good friend of mine, who happens to be a creative photographer, told me I should open a photo blog. She also mentioned the word "competition"... so here we go Audrey! Well...I don't have any ambition in that area. I just like shooting landscapes in case I have time to paint someday... and then I get carried away, and I take pictures that are not good for painting. So, I'll post them here. It makes me feel like less of an "Ex-artist". Criticism is well welcomed!

The art process

Well, I haven't painted or sculpted in a while... three months. As we all know the creative process, it starts with the thought, the imagination, and somehow it needs to come to life... and that's where time and money come in...and rational excuses...
We've moved across country and we've settled in the East. That's one excuse. I don't have time and when I have, it's late at night, that's another excuse. I don't have money to even frame what I've done in the past, and I don't have money to buy boards, canvases..that's already three excuses... I mean, how many excuses am I supposed to find before the guilt goes away?
This blog is dying of neglect..but watch... i'm confident sometimes near or far, art will come back in my life and on this blog.
For the moment, it's FARNIENTE time!

Teanu

Made to honor my husband as he graduated from Medical School this Spring. I searched all kind of websites to find some contemporary polynesian sculptures, and only found a few rare tiki and wood carving. Where are all the polynesian artists? Better not be tattooing pineapples on people's butts.

coil pot

I haven't spent enough time to throw on the wheel, so my pots are made out of coils. It's fun and it doesn't break your back.
It's nothing like the pots potters in Asia or Mexico make. Yeah...i'm not a potter, and i didn't try too hard either, so here is what you get.

self-portrait

Symbolic self-portrait inspired by the tikis of the Easter Islands and by the covenants I made.
It broke during the firing and I obviously had to glue it, but I still put it in there ( i am not professional)

l'enfant blond

Teanu dit que mon cheval ressemble a un dinosaure, et il a raison! Cette sculpture represente la partie centrale d'un reve long et detaille. Je l'ai faite pour me rappeler l'interpretationdu reve.

elephant time- just for fun

Patience

I was exhausted by my demanding children: two young toddler still to be carried. I felt my body was responding to all their needs but my patience inside was limited. On this sculpture, I don't regret the big breasts falling towards the child. Aren't the breasts the receptacle of all that is good? Sure, it can be inappropriate. But it's reality. And the barrel like belly is there as a testimony that child rearing is stretching us beyond our limits. Isn't in the belly that most of us feel our anger starting to roar up?
Yet, the bond is strong and our arms are reached.

pastel et acrylique

etudes

etude pour la nativite

comment les idees viennent...

Les ideees me viennent en gribouillant. Ca m'aide a voir si les sculptures sont realisables ou si les lignes me plaisent juste sur le papier. Je suis toujours decue de realiser que tout a l'air si bien sur les croquis, et quand le multidimensionnel se pointe, ca ne va plus. Les problemes techniques et esthetiques arrivent. J'aime le processus de la sculpture, mais je ne pense pas comme un sculpteur. Un prof. allemand de dessin d'observation etait fache d'apprendre que la plupart de mes classes cet hiver-la etaient de sculpture. Il m'a dit assez fache: "what are you doing? You are not a sculptor, you do not think multidimensional. You are wasting your talent!". Maybe he was right...