1. to pierce or pass into or through.
2. to enter into the interior of.
3. To arrive at the truth of.
penetrate
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OPEN: To render readily accessible that which usually remains hidden and interior. To set so as to permit passage through. To cease to be secretive.
To cease to be secretive
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OPEN: To render readily accessible that which usually remains hidden and interior. To set so as to permit passage through. To cease to be secretive.
About Me
- Lucy Madeline
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Actress and multi-disciplinary artist. Currently relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico from Los Angeles to study art and film at Santa Fe University of Art and Design
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Artist's Statement
"The role of the indigenous shaman was to mediate between the visible and the invisible worlds. Originally this was the role of the artist: to endow that barely perceptible liminal realm with a physical form, producing symbols of evolutionary import. I believe in the power of images to create change. Though the imagery in my work is incredibly intimate, it echoes an experience that is universally female. I create for both personal and transpersonal revolution."
- Lucy Madeline
Lucy Madeline is a multidisciplinary artist working in video and sculptural installation, performance, photography, and painting. Her work is characterized by a fundamental search for identity through relationship to the physical and metaphysical body. Through her re-appropriation of the female form, and thus the female experience, she redefines her understanding of self, sexuality, personal history and transformation. By utilizing the dynamic between images, words and sounds, she articulates through visual metaphor those things which cannot be spoken with words alone. She is informed by archaic imagery and tradition, exploiting the passage of time and repetition of ritualistic actions to communicate themes of loss, separation, and the sacralization of the mundane.
She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
*Roshi Joan Halifax, Shaman: The Wounded Healer
**Marija Gimbutas, The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe - Myths and Cult Images
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so beautiful. tender. poetic.
ReplyDeleteI feel the utter helplessness of the leaf in repose. of the "consciousness" that has pierced, pricked, pinned, sewn itself to her....and how this is different from, for example, black ink in water.
love the photographs, the shadows, the white, the simplicity of it. reminds me of Lorca.
it moves me.
ReplyDeleteOh thank you thank you. You got it. I'm honored to be compared to Lorca. There are so many more photographs. It was hard to choose. Yes she is still, in that state for which there is no word, the state of being entered.
ReplyDeleteThinking about photosynthesis. The chloroplasts in a leaf are located within the edges of a stomata that opens up to receive sunlight like a vagina opens to receive sperm for the eggs the ovaries release into the womb. The stomata opens and chlorophyll is stimulated by the sun's energy to take air and water and make life.
ReplyDeleteSunlight energy within the chlorophyll breaks the bonds of CO2 (carbon dioxide in the air) and H20 (from the ground) and recombines them into CH2O (sugar) and O2 (free oxygen). This is the source of all life on the planet. Photosynthesis in bluegreen algae is where it all started. (E3Live anyone?)
The Sun is making love to the Leaf, penetrating it and creating life. Your photos are a tender symbolic expression of that. And the next ones: all of us leaves are bound together in a way in this infinite web of life.
I love the definition to begin with. I am intrigued by the masculine-feminine in this. The red thread is so feminine and I love that it is connected to Hem Rrhage, perhaps even the red socks? This is very thought provoking. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThank you Hazel! What do you think of it in relationship to the following one, unity? It was first titled "You and Me" but I took the title away for now. Any thoughts? Je t'adore!!
ReplyDeleteIt is different, not so much about the relationship between the needle and the leaf, but a point in time after that. I am so interested in what that active process to get there is, undoubtedly because I saw Inside first and it made me have all these thoughts! Inside is really intense, with a whole bunch of juxtapositions. Looking at Unity in isolation, I think the question becomes about the role of the thread. It is much gentler. I find it so interesting that you use the word "considered" in the intro. I had a conversation with a friend a few weeks ago who articulated that it was the feeling of being considered that made her current relationship different from any before it. Beautiful work. Love.
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