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Artist Statement
I am fascinated with growth and movement. As a child, I would jump, leap, and sit on large rocks sprawled across my backyard. I’d touched their surfaces, memorizing their patterns, shapes, and textures until I felt as if I knew each one. My jumping had a particular order and momentum. It's no surprise that dancing became a major focus in my life and is an important element of my creative process. My artwork is inextricably linked to the study of gestural movements and the emotion of a form, especially as it is expressed in nature. I search for lines that bend, twist, bubble, swirl, and sway. The emotion within a form can be assertive as the curve of a wave rolling towards its destination, yet at other times, fragile and graceful as a dried blossom, yearning, stiff, frozen, and stick-like. Sensations resonate within me as I witness nature unfold.
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Botanical forms such as flowers, vines, roots, and leaves are of great interest to me. I study them living, dying, and regenerating, Sometimes I move in close and study its essence. Other times I secretly observe and contemplate a scene - willow branches swaying above pond water, little girls holding hands and walking through an old village, leaves wrapped around one another like an embrace. Natural forms intrigue me. I sense the emotion within them and their desire to express themselves beyond their isolated existence.
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There is a quiet conversation that develops between myself and the subject, between my hand and the surface, between my head and my heart, between myself and G-d. The art process itself is like a ballet. At first, I am the audience, observing nature's dance, interpreting internal movements and external gestures of the landscape. I take hundreds of photographs that are later curated and categorized in small photo manuals. These manuals become my source from which I sketch memories and nuances, interpret the emotion, modify the composition, emphasize the emotion and movement, and hopefully bringing the intangible into physical form for you to experience.
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View of Bonnie's Palette