One of the first few viewers of the painting remarked, “Is this what you see a marriage as? Fragmented, chaotic, broken?”
To the artist, marriage is balance. A coming together. A melding. What one chooses to see, perceive, and interpret, is more a reflection of one’s own stories. In that sense, art serves the vital purpose of bringing forth our stories, the conditioned mind, and gives us a unique opportunity to free ourselves.
Just like marriage. Not necessarily the government ordained ceremony but the marriage of two beings. Relationships activate us. The ultimate sanctuary where two beings feel love and safety enough to allow each other to embrace their shadows and build and grow together.
In marriage, everything comes together. Light & shadow. Stories & freedom. Consciousness & unconsciousness. Masculine & feminine.
The signature art style of the artist’s partner is patterns of circular dots representing energetic vibrations. The artist’s signature style is lines. The painting was meant to be a visual representation of the two styles coming together. But without this back story, the piece can mean anything that the viewer chooses.
“Choose your own adventure”, as Jamie says.
The artist uses acrylic markers to hand-paint each artwork. Acid-free gesso is applied to the canvas before she begins the painting. Some paintings have pencil sketches on top of which the synthetic polymer paint is layered. Each painting is photographed prior to the application of varnish. Several coats of high-gloss liquid, UV resistant, museum-grade, acid-free, non-yellowing varnish is applied to the painting, and it is finished with several layers of permanent matte varnish spray, similar in grade to the liquid varnish.
About The Series
The growing discourse on gender, sexuality and identity, is what brought forth this series for the artist. While the online world can seem as polarizing and swinging between the two extremes of centuries-old misogyny and newly-minted misandry, real people in real life continue to collaborate and build lives of magical energy. After posting a couple of short videos on her Instagram page, and after reading through and responding to thousands of comments, the artist feels like the fervor has never been this in-her-face. She feels the vibrations from women who seem to be coming into their own, developing relationships with their divine and sacred selves, choosing to get to know themselves better and unlearning the conditioning of needing a man in their lives. At the same time, men seem to be coming into their own as well. Breaking free from patriarchal strong holds, exploring their spirituality and honoring the feminine within their masculine.
The lived experiences of both the feminine and the masculine are colliding. And not always in beautiful ways. Regardless, there’s an energy and a vibration around the artist that she has not experienced before in her life.
She aims to bring forth these vibrations in her paintings for this series.