Mollie Meager
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A quote from Picasso: “Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation, it’s a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange, hostile world and us. A way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires.
When I came to that realisation, I knew I had found my way “
The beauty of glass is that it is invisible. Even when it is colour! So it can represent the part of living that we can’t see or touch. We as artists are the creators, the thinking mind, the trunk of the tree that blossoms and reaches for the sky. Our materials are the body, surprising us with what can be achieved through their magic. Through them our ideas materialise.
But there is also the spirit, released through mind and body. And by using invisible glass as a basis for expression, well there’s a challenge! We make the glass visible by working on its surface. And the world beyond is still there wanting to be part of the conversation. This world can be viewed clearly, or with mystery, uncertainty through working on the glass.
And so for me, glass provides that magical mediator to which Picasso refers.
When I came to that realisation, I knew I had found my way “
The beauty of glass is that it is invisible. Even when it is colour! So it can represent the part of living that we can’t see or touch. We as artists are the creators, the thinking mind, the trunk of the tree that blossoms and reaches for the sky. Our materials are the body, surprising us with what can be achieved through their magic. Through them our ideas materialise.
But there is also the spirit, released through mind and body. And by using invisible glass as a basis for expression, well there’s a challenge! We make the glass visible by working on its surface. And the world beyond is still there wanting to be part of the conversation. This world can be viewed clearly, or with mystery, uncertainty through working on the glass.
And so for me, glass provides that magical mediator to which Picasso refers.
