Solo Showing

Darla Fisher Odjig 2013

 

SYMBOLS AND THEIR ATTRIBUTES
A TRIBUTE TO MY FATHER WWII VETEREN An Abstraction of humor, struggle & courage as a First Nations boy to a Canadian Soldier in the Patricia Pat Infantry
The Vision: It is my belief that extraction toward abstraction is vital to our children and their ability to see more of what is within, to form ideas and ideals, to create beyond what is already there inventing that which would not be recognized if not for that connection to the abyss, if not for the courage to go toward the unknown. What happens every day is recorded and stored deep in our psyche and identifying the many parts of the abstraction gives a deeper understanding as to who we are and what we do. Our history is therefore a crucial part of who we are and why we are the way we are. Our environment is also a stepping stone toward the character map we so embrace and live by. The sharing through symbology/pictorial imaging precipitates a phenomenon of integrated thoughts and unified precedence toward the enhancing of emotion and identification of authentic values and feelings. The “in the moment “experience that allows through these paintings an understanding toward an empathic sense is real and at times frightening. This series of artistic abstraction will be a glimpse pertaining to reserve life for a young boy and his courage and empathy toward preserving of freedom for his people and for his country. Connecting with the public through the art and its symbolic representation will be a moving and gripping sense of emotional maturation that may be enlightening to all who brave the journey within.

 

Van Manen states, 1990
Objects of art are visual, tactile auditory, kinetic texts-texts consisting of not a verbal language but a language nevertheless, and a language with its own grammar. Because artists are involved in giving shape to their lived experience, the products of art are, in a sense, lived experiences transformed into transcended configurations.