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Leonardo Da Vinci encouraged “observation with imagination”. Hamlet saw a camel in the clouds. In 1866, Karl Kahlbaum named the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation of a visual stimulus pareidolia. In my garden, reality wilts under the macro lens, while shades and shapes transform to surreal storylines evoking the emotion of a long-forgotten past.  The diversity of images elevates photography as fictitious expressions of boundless imagination. Time and distance leave marks in one’s mind which stretches constantly and unconsciously. My conceptually-evolved beings will never return to their original selves. Homecoming to where the stories began is familiar and complementary, yet never the way it was. The human mind, where memory mingles with fantasy and reality converses with emotion, is the center of the ever-expanding universe one sees and believes. While I see a heaven in a flower, I realize how non-universal individual perceptions are for everyone. 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The show is divided into two categories: Category one in the side room will show the beginning work of designing the Archetypal figures of GRIEF, BLAME and HOPE and transitional works, illustrating the pattern work and expanding the image to a fuller canvas. The second category and embodying the main theme of the show, EARTH AT THE EDGE, will be twelve relief paintings which attempt to bring attention to climate change and its devastating effect on our existence on earth. To understand the concept of relief paintings, one must consider the layered process of their creation. Begun in the early 1990’s, developed directly from performance sketches in Tokyo Theatre, the substructures are 3” deep archival paper pulp castings of three-fourths life size kabuki figures: my archetypal representations of GRIEF, BLAME, and HOPE. The over-painting of these castings brings the imagery from eighteenth century traditional storey characters, up to their contemporary equals, where I deal with threats to man’s social and environmental well-being. The archetypal characters from the 1700’s, about whom Chikamatsu wrote in his classic Kabuki plays, were disguised by centuries and names, (or he would have lost his head). My protest, my activism is guised in the visual arts. In the over-painted images, we are witness to crisis after crisis for our water, our air, our energy resources and our earth. These crises call for sustainable solutions. We are GRIEVED by the rapidly declining environment; results of catastrophic events of altered nature. There are known entities of BLAME, (the daily abuse of earth’s resources). There is HOPE, however, in the efforts many are now making to change the direction of human involvement. Learn more about Jo Zider at jozider.com." 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Click here for submission instructions." ["post_title"]=> string(69) "Visions: A Celebration of the Creativity of The Jung Center Community" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(70) "visions-a-celebration-of-the-creativity-of-the-jung-center-community-2" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2022-04-26 18:21:32" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2022-04-26 18:21:32" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(54) "https://junghouston.org/?post_type=exhibit&p=2294" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(7) "exhibit" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [4]=> object(WP_Post)#3393 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(2230) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "5" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2022-03-18 15:58:02" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2022-03-18 15:58:02" ["post_content"]=> string(2127) "A personal dream inspired this body of paintings: "It’s very dark at night. I’m on a bicycle and on my lap is the cutest baby girl. Her head is round and full. As I’m passing cars on the road at high speed I saw a very large man running from behind. He's catching up with us. His face looks bruised and beaten up. There's blood and open wounds on his face and chest. He cuts us off and as we stop he yells, ‘Pay me $800! Or just give me the baby!’ He opens his right hand and I see he's holding a very large sharp knife. I know that he's going to stab me. I tell the baby, ‘Don’t worry, nobody will take you from me!’ And I reach for a gun in my pocket and shoot the man in his head. His entire head blows off. And then we keep on biking. And crows fly overhead and lead the way. Hares run in the fields next to us."

"Eating my own Shadow" are paintings in mixed media [acrylic, oil, and graphite] on canvasses prepared with rabbit skin glue. With paintings, I find portals to create a language of colour and forms about the content of the dream. The images are physical forms of human and animal, but done with accident and chance. I shy away from the illustrative, but hold on to irrational mark makings. The painted images are imaginary and invite curiosity. The moods of the paintings are melancholic and eery. The images are dualities and not merely emotions painted out as abstractions. The paintings as a gestalt are a deeply subjective perspective of the dream experience. No logical answers are given to answer what the dream means. Questions remain. The vaguely palpable bodies wish to speak, almost touch, if at all.

The dated psycho-analytic unconscious has made its way with new deconstructions and voicings into the contemporary times. Dreams are only one access of how the unconscious is considered in our times. As a visual artist I examine ideas and speculations currently pertaining to a fresh examination of the unconscious. Visit John Faul's website." 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At the time of her death, Mayer’s mother was in the middle of knitting a number of excerpts from Paul Klee paintings—he was one of her favorite artists. Mayer has used her mother’s custom patterns to create latch-hook versions of the Klee fragments. She knows which paintings some of the fragments come from; others she hasn’t yet found. Mayer’s practice as an artist revels in the fact that historically ceramics and fiber processes have been used to create highly functional items as well as wildly symbolic objects. Her work is part of this lineage, with equal concern for the future, and its dramatically shifting climate—ecological and political. The works in Pale Clay (Influence and Contagion) celebrate the rending of patriarchal histories. As she draws thousands of fibers through canvas grids, Mayer’s process suggests how influence may occur between realms and generations—materially, with attention to touch." 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Layering of materials provides depth to each piece. Her works possess movement and energy, reflecting the changing, unstable characteristics of nature, as well as the fragmentation and uncertainty of life." 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In fourth grade, Joel won a scholarship to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. At San Jacinto High School he won a Scholastic Arts National Key Award for his work in ceramics. In the late '60s and early ‘70s his work was shown in Houston’s leading galleries and in small group shows at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. By mid-decade, however, McGlasson prioritized his family and sought work as an architect. On a cold call for an available position he was hired largely on the strength of his glass paintings shown at the Louisiana Gallery two weeks before. For the next thirty-five years, he put his art career on hold as he worked on projects for S.I. Morris Associates, Magruder Winfield, Page Architects, and 3D International. 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Leonardo Da Vinci encouraged “observation with imagination”. Hamlet saw a camel in the clouds. In 1866, Karl Kahlbaum named the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation of a visual stimulus pareidolia. In my garden, reality wilts under the macro lens, while shades and shapes transform to surreal storylines evoking the emotion of a long-forgotten past.  The diversity of images elevates photography as fictitious expressions of boundless imagination. Time and distance leave marks in one’s mind which stretches constantly and unconsciously. My conceptually-evolved beings will never return to their original selves. Homecoming to where the stories began is familiar and complementary, yet never the way it was. The human mind, where memory mingles with fantasy and reality converses with emotion, is the center of the ever-expanding universe one sees and believes. While I see a heaven in a flower, I realize how non-universal individual perceptions are for everyone. The uniqueness and freedom of imagination differentiate us from other living organisms — and advance human civilization. Thus, what is IMAGINATION? What is MAKE-BELIEVE? And what is TRUTH? In the world in which we live, “TRUTH” is only what one chooses to believe. Learn more about Cindy Shung at cindyshung.com. 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