Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within the manipulation of that altered predisposition.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.
To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.
I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.