Sta.sh
E-mail: www.angeladams.net
Location: USA
Specialty: Surreality
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| I portray, in my art, the power of imagination in a world of dreams and illusion. With various types of visual art, I intend to represent what I encounter, as well as present to my audience an interpretation of our surroundings. I have chosen perception as my focus. My teachers, along with a series of mystical experiences, have influenced my awareness and, in turn, my art. Visual and Conceptual artists, such as the Dadaists, Situationists, Surrealists and Impressionists, have shaped my style, in addition to writers, television, films, and even types of music that deal with science fiction, paranormal phenomena, and fantasy. I take in the knowledge of the East: the peacefulness and mysticism of Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, and The Bahá'í Faith, and the West: the perspectives and disciplines of the Hopi, Navajo, Toltec, and Yaqui peoples. I am greatly inspired by the anthropologist, writer, and sorcerer Carlos Castaneda, his cohorts, and especially his teacher, don Juan Matus. Don Juan frequently stressed, "Human beings are extraordinary beings living in an extraordinary world... Neither should ever be taken for granted." My work is a method of meditation and self-reflection on this idea. On my quest for enlightenment, I explore "the unknown." I use the mediums of glass, digital video and photography, because of their malleability, which is also a characteristic of perception. I create illusions in video by manipulating scene combination, visual layers, implied space, light, shadow, context, and sound. In digital photography, I blend, change, and enhance images of actual objects or environments. With these techniques, I can remind the viewer that things are not always what they seem. I believe that the trickery of such technology has begun to awaken us to this fact. The subject matter of my work often includes aspects of dreaming, extra-terrestrials, angelic entities, identity, the sacredness of everything, perception of light, energy, color, movement, time, and space. I portray spontaneous, intuitive, and magical accidents with natural, figurative, and abstract forms. I observe and gather data, documenting and representing the worlds in which I find myself. At the same time, I aim to give the impression that this "physical" world, like my art, is illusionary. All is One in the Great Infinite Divine to which All belongs... The world is meant to be savored. It is filled with exquisite delights. - Julia Cameron One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. - William Shakespeare We live in an incredible world. Take time to look and take notice. - Tana Hoban Nature offers us a thousand simple pleasures - plays of light and color, fragrances in the air… - Lorraine Anderson Nagualism begins with two certainties: the certainty that human beings are extraordinary beings living in an extraordinary world; and the certainty that neither men nor the world should ever be taken for granted under any circumstances. - Don Juan Matus, teacher to Florinda Donner Grau and Carlos Castaneda, among many others |
