Call Me An Optimist
I paint my versions of heaven; places that are beautiful and meditative not found on earth.
Call me an optimist, but I believe that art can heal. Man has the powerful ability to dream, to create better worlds and new realities. And images play an important role in this. Our history begins with images, which go far back in time, even farther than language, and are cross cultural.
We are united through images. I keep this in mind daily as I am barraged through news and media with sensationalist stories and events of world crisis. Part of me wants to join the peace corps but instead I paint.I paint with the conviction that my images can heal.
SEEN ABOVE: Images by Nancy Reyner. Top and on Front-Page mastheads: "A Brief Glimpse." Bottom: "Flower Stem."WORDS ABOVE: by Nancy Reyner, read more HERE.
How nice!
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August 5, 2010 6:27 AM
I edit political and economic news on Thailand, every day, rather like your peace corps instead of painting. I walk from my office into a red-clad landscape. The violence has subsided now, and it is a place of quiet again. A photographer, I have used gold leaf on black and white Buddha images in caves, acrylic gold and green in a lost painting. I believe I will paint again, and try send "A Brief Glimpse' to an artist and faith friend in Malta. You call me to reflect upon this place, heaven, and not heaven...
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August 7, 2010 7:58 PM
Like Reyner, "Part of me wants to join the peace corps but instead I paint." Seems I am in good company.
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August 8, 2010 4:32 PM