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Statement
The human body has a continual
presence in my work as an anthropomorphic mass of geometric shapes. Other
geometric forms I favor evoke pattern, matrix and environment -- associations
of location. I am interested in what it means to have an intellect,
instincts, and a spirit, and how these oppositions inherent in us come into
balance. This is a problem for every individual human life, for human
society, and human culture through history. I draw on many sources for inspiration: myth, philosophy,
psychology, literature and scientific theory. The images for my acrylic paintings are derived
through a combination of traditional sketching and computer modeling. The
designs are then transferred to canvas and the paintings are hand-finished
using an exacting hard-edge taping technique. LIMINAL
SERIES
There is
a very real world of scientific equations and visual constructs. This is a
series of work that I am currently engaged in which poses the question: Are
we disappearing into that world or do we find ourselves somehow mirrored in
it? These paintings (LogicGate: The Thinking Fire, pictured) visually explore the
idea of liminality, or being in the threshold in relation to the scientific knowledge
that informs us and changes our world at an ever-increasing pace. Where is
our place in all this change? I see the threshold as the defining place of
our time. STEREOPAIRS
Even in
the time of Euclid it was recognized that humans see with binocular vision, a
triangulation is taking place whenever we scan a field and focus in on
something. These paintings (Lapis, pictured) are side-by-side images that are meant to be
viewed using free vision, or cross-eyed vision. These pieces are conceived with an
understanding of the function of convergence and disparity in the vision
process, and the realization that we focus where lines of sight cross.
Crossing the eyes to view the images is just doing intentionally what the eyes
do naturally. In addition to providing depth cues, I am using the stereo
technique to explore visual syncopation, optical color mixing and kinetic
effects. Each painting has as its common template a pair of abstract,
architectonic, figural forms. They are concerned with the dynamic interplay
of 2 and can be thought of as a visual
metaphors to explore aspects of splitting, doubling, occlusion, opposition,
creation and wholeness. ©
Marjorie Mikasen, All Rights Reserved
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