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Edith Green: Manuscript Series Continued

May 9 - June 12, 2002

Curated by Michelle Fiorenza


Creation is a spiritual endeavor. Painting is creation. Seeing an idea-a dream-moves me to a precipice, ever on the edge. I am anxious, I strive, there is pattern in my dream and I must express it. My hands are directed. What moves them?

I have no words. I have bits and pieces of me ­ my heritage ­ my environment. Perhaps my work springs from my collective subconscious. My inner thoughts are a rich dream that cannot be my doing. I am an instrument. I work to gain control. My techniques are learned. I respect the history of my art. I am grateful to those who came before me and the teachers who have shown me many paths. My soul¹s life comes from the highest source of creation and the poser of this relationship awes me.

My manuscript paintings are a continuum, a series of elements passing into each other ­old and new forever joined. I feel that the world moves ahead by the merging of ancient ideas that are combined with our lives of today, thus creating a new reality.

It is my hope that the viewer will first see a pleasing deign reminiscent of an ancient tile ­ upon closer scrutiny will discover the merging of familiar script ­ the combining of languages ­ which to me represents the unity and the harmony that can be possible on our tiny earth.

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