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Drawing on Inspiration
MIXED MEDIA WORKS ON STONE |
Midland Gallery
13 Midland Ave,
Montclair, New Jersey
MAY 1999
This collection of paintings explores artists' sources
for inspiration and reflection. The collection's aim is to record the moments
of illumination that
lead to creativity. If these moments are captured, their magic can awe and
inspire the audience as much as they do the artist.
As artists, we spend much of our time in the process of
making that we often take for granted the flickers of inspiration that drive us
in a particular direction or into building a body of work. After years of
pursuing our particular interests sometimes we forget how we got there. I wanted
to remember.
In this most recent work, I have chosen to focus on the
direct exploration of mixed media on stone. These materials gave me an immediacy
of drawing as well as the ability to create richer surfaces, while affording me
the color without which I cannot seem to work. I cannot help but set limitations
on the work through my choice of materials. By necessity, these works are small
in scale and intimate and thus felt appropriate for exploring the visitations of
my muse. She comes when and and how she likes. As most of us, I have to coax her
to visit more often and when she comes I am always amazed at what she brings.
I found myself drawing
on rocks and I let my muse lead the way! It was not a scientific or planned
journey but rather a serendipitous
one, full of motifs that inspired my earliest work as an artists. They cannot
help but be paintings with surfaces that delight in color and pattern, but
they have returned to some of the simplest forms in which centuries of
artists have
found their inspiration, such as landscape, the female form and imagery from
icons."
Christina Saj
1999
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Foothillls of
Calgary
14" x 20"
1999
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Hymn to the Sun
10" X 7"
1999
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