mi Chelle Vara

Archive for March, 2010

miCHelle, Cruzer and Moses

The sun rise cast a shimmering crimson red, on my smiling horse.
He stands atop a hill in the pasture, in memory of our past.
I reflect back to the time when every day included a ride, in powerful stride.
In the drum like rhythm of hooves that carried me away, from the realities of human existence.
A time to dream, a time to think, a time to be with- out explanation.
No persecution of daily existence, no chatter of ego.
The camaraderie and passion shared without words. Secrets kept.
Honest action, reaction and communication just a simple hairy friend.
I swell in the stream of visual augmentation.
I sculpt for days, hammering out thoughts, like a photographer of metal.
In steel I Immortalize the time to ride and the horses I called friends.

Metal welded horse sculpture to me he's lauphing. What do you see?

Welded asseblage of parts in found finish.

Found objects welded in automotive paint finish.

Swing

MiChelle has moved in a different direction than her normal metal sculpture. For this series “Displacement of the American Dream”
she is working with mixed media on board.
MiChelle is in hopes of further pursuing her commentary as she has much to visually say on the subject.

In this time of year I enjoy stimulating my mind with the readings of artist, critics, educators and philosophers about their ideas thoughts and journeys.
With that I have saved some comments that I enjoyed and hope you will to…………………..

“A belief is something that you think about enough, that holds you apart from the flow of whom you really are or want to be” Abraham

“All Beauty is a making one of opposites, and making opposite is what we are going for in our-self’s”
Eli Siegel

“I love the person who is searching, yet I am afraid of the one who thinks he has found the answer. In my life I have much more pleasure with the question than with finding the answer. Except when the answer is another question. This is where the obsession to create begins!” Pascal

“I choose not to paint the reality but rather its effects left with me”
This effect was further described as instinctual. Joan Mitchell

The cubist phenomenology of cognition of objects through a self-conscious reinvention of representation, surrealist phenomenology of mind through self-conscious exploration of the various modes of consciousness itself. Miranda McClintic

“Cubis are metaphors of active human force which does not simply acknowledge the emptiness of the universe, but defies it.” David Smith

“All you need in life is a tremendous sex drive and a great ego. Brains don’t mean a shit.”
Capt. Tony Ft. Lauderdale’s mayor 1980

“ What better way to prove you understand a subject, than to make money at it”
Harold Rosenberg

“If at first you don’t succeed- try, try, try again”
Nick Vara