Diane Mead on sat 9 sep 00
Jeanette:
I hear you! I think that is wonderful!!!
WOW
Things that can't be put into words
You just did!!!!
>From: Jeanette Harris
>Reply-To: Ceramic Arts Discussion List
>To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
>Subject: Re: Artist Statement
>Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 08:03:31 -0800
>
>Okay, guys, I've been working long and hard on this. Have to have a
>statement to go with a library public art commission, so here goes:
>
>
>
>All art is communication on some level.
>
> Just as dance is communication through gesture
> and music speaks to the emotions,
> visual art is a language heard directly by the psyche.
> It is instantly understood by every human being.
>
> Each viewer gets it on a different level,
> depending upon their own unique experience.
> It is a fundamental dialog,
> much like the milli-second between thought and speech:
> More felt, than put into words.
>
> I have been fortunate in my life
> to have lived in many parts of the world -
> the Orient, Middle East, Western Pacific and Europe.
> All of their influences affect my work
> through an interplay of design, technique and form.
>
> I am continually intrigued with the challenge of creating
> through the clay medium.
> I love engineering clay.
> But clay is more than this.
> It is a physical challenge as well as a mental one.
> That's what makes it so engaging.
>
> It is important for me
> to work in a studio flooded with music,
> helping me reach a level of harmony of mind and body
> to find that essence of expression--
> so unique and sometimes so hard to attain--
>
> that goes beyond words,
>
> beyond conscious thought
>
> into that extraordinary, intuitive landscape
>
> where time stops and all that exists
>
> is the power of the process.
>
>
>Jeanette Manchester Harris
>
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