Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Agnes Denes.
A pioneer of conceptual art & the environmental art movement.
If you don't know her, you should.
website
Saturday, September 20, 2008
History.
I grew up here:
I went to college here:
After college, my life began to transform here:
And it continued to do so, so i headed out West:
And we moved to Santa Fe, and it pretty much changed our lives:
So we kept on moving....
After college, my life began to transform here:
And it continued to do so, so i headed out West:
And we moved to Santa Fe, and it pretty much changed our lives:
So we kept on moving....
Intro:
So, due to my lack of web design skills, www.KristinFialko.com, is temporarily on hold.
Therefore, in the mean time, I have began a blog.
My most recent body of work entitled:
"Burning Boxes"
Therefore, in the mean time, I have began a blog.
My most recent body of work entitled:
"Burning Boxes"
“Lithium, Zoloft, Depakote, Ritalin, Zyprexa, Risperdal...”
Oil, shellac & wood-stain on paper and panel
84” x 102”
“The Death of Innocence”Oil, shellac & wood-stain on paper
42” x 77”
“Side Affects Unknown”Oil, shellac & wood-stain on panel
42” x 67”
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Human existence has relied very much on the act of conquering. Throughout history, we have convinced ourselves that to be powerful, we must conquer our counterparts. Gender, race, religion, ethnicity and difference in opinions have all been reasons to go to war with one another. The idea of conquering has filtered into our natural thought processes and throughout our lives we will invest a great amount of energy trying to define, understand, and ultimately conquer everything we don’t quite comprehend. Some of the main things that we don’t comprehend are the obvious, one being that the act of needing to conquer really only leads to self-destruction.
One of the greatest struggles a conscious human being is faced with is how to establish a balance between the dualities life presents to us, and the dualities we present to ourselves. To appreciate beauty we must see the ugly that lies within it and to truly feel pleasure we must experience and accept pain. This concept, in relation to our psyche, expresses that for us to gain more knowledge of who we are, we must accept what it is we truly know, both the pleasant and the unpleasant, the known and the unknown. If we don’t embrace the duality in everything, we begin to loose complete touch with our psyche and end up in a society established by lies and false representations.
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