Sometimes all you can do is go down into the Darkness to emerge back into the Light…
Sometimes walking straight into our Fears is the only way to understand and conqer them…
Purgatory as Purification (Cleansing by Water)
Grief took a hold of her heart and wouldn’t let go until she wished it away.
Drop by drop the sadness filled her until she found herself surrounded by past regrets.
Being submerged, to the waist, in a pool of water.
How could she get herself out of this uncomfortable wetness without feeling the bitter cold air upon her skin?
How could she return to a dry and warm comfort?
Until she saw the predicament she found herself in as an opportunity to grow, she would never move on out of it.
Her place of pain was also her place of salvation.
This water she found herselg in could also cleanse and baptize her.
It could wash away the grime of all the darkest places she’s been.
She didn’t know that walking into the pain was her doorway out.
Mater Materia
What is motherhood? Is it the ability to carry, create and nurture life? If so, can an artist be considered Mother to its artistic creations?
I have often approached my creative projects like my pregnancy. I had to practice patience and the ability to allow the process to happen. Most times, it may feel like a waiting game but there is a deeper wisdom happenning as the seed planted grows into bloom.
When inspired, you become impregnated with the seed of possibility or potentiality. You have to let it grow,let it take it’s shape and nurture it daily. It takes time. It demands that you release any expectations you may have about the process.
You are about to materialize an idea or something into existence that wasn’t there before.
But don’t get confused, you are not the main Creator. You are the vessel that carries it into fruition.
Just like Art, you hold the space to manifest the beauty of the human existence into matter.
Stay Away
This video was made using Chris Thile’s song Stay Away. The video made and the images were taken by me.
I have been longing to make a film for a very long time. I have been aching to make a linear story using images like photographs. I have always believed that images and music make the perfect marriage. In my first attempt at making a small film, I have to admit I am proud of the outcome. There’s no specific meaning to the images captured except that I wanted to make a film that reflected a dream-like and haunting feeling. I feel that the song was chosen specifically because it sounded exactly like the images. I didn’t want to chose an instrumental music because I believe in the power of poetry. I wanted the viewers to concentrate on the words as much as the visual aspect. As if the video helped them listen more closely.
La vie en monochrome
On apprend à voir la vie en monochrome à force de capter des images en noir et blanc. The Wheels
Scenes from a Fairy Tale
Since my return to my hometown, which also meant my return to nature from the Big City, I have been spending much time in the wilderness. Before my departure to Montreal a year ago, I had begun a series of photographs entitled Scenes from a Fairy Tale . It was unknown to me at the time, but they all shared the same other-worldly and magical feeling. At that time, they were just random snapshots of my expeditions and my rendition of nature’s impression upon me. A few months before leaving Montreal for good, I sent those photographs to the Defining Moments contest, a project created by Taking It Global.My images were chosen to be a part of the Montreal and Toronto exhibitions. Suddenly, the theme of the images became clear to me, and I decided to explore that notion further in my practice. The upcoming art show presented at the Edmundston Public Library is the result of my visual explorations. I have intended to instill and activate a sense of wonder about the natural world to the viewer.
Scenes from a Fairy Talewill be shown at the Mgr. W.-J. Conway Public Library in Edmundston from September 1st to the 28th 2012.
Virginia
Collage made by Gen Violette
As I scavenged through old National Geographics, I found the images of these two women and they immediately fascinated me. I thought they were so exotic with a tan I can’t even get in the summertime. They represented natural beauty, untouched and pure, just like a landscape not violated by industrialization and the corruption of men. To me, these two girls, also represented the virgin rainforest. Also in my collage search, I found the word Virginia, and it seemed fitting to put the word in the image since Virginia was once a colony in the New World. America was being, at the time, exploited and explored by the new settlers. The fact that the gun, in the collage, covers some parts of the word only to keep Virgin visible is powerful. The gun is a masculine symbol, it can terrorize and invade by intimidation. It became clear to me that the collage was about a virgin territory (or land) being invaded by a negative male energy, whether the land in question is metaphorical or literal. The message is about invasion of something that should remain natural, pure and untouched in order to keep it’s authenticity.
Trail #16
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I have never been here before. I knew about the trails but I had never dared go on my own. I guess I was afraid I might get lost but actually, looking back, I wouldn’t mind losing myself in the … Continue reading
I am just a Ray of Light
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I am not a woman, I am just a Ray of Light…. And I wish I could make myself as light as a feather, To become nothing but a floating entity. Not a woman anymore but a spirit.
