Hilary Shames
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Artist Statement:
My work is about transformation
and regeneration. It is about looking beyond the moment of existence and into
the whole pattern of the structure of life and our environment in the natural
world. From supernova transforming into nebula and back into gasses that come
together as new stars, seeing this and the sperm egg relationship in infinite
space. To the structures beyond the subatomic level where matter is formed
in such theories as Super Symmetry and String Theory to application of natural
geometries such as the Golden Section to back holes all the way into the structure
of leaves, and further down into DNA. I believe all things are connected.
Even into the symbolism developed in organized religion and mythology. I see
both the world of spirituality and the world of scientific theory as being
indemonstrably linked, even symartist's statementtic. I am fascinated by all processes of
metamorphosis from the development of a chrysalis into a beautiful butterfly
into the Phoenix rising from the ashes, to Christ's resurrection through revelation,
to Shiva's creation and destruction of the universe. I believe all things
are continually coming in and out of being, just as we are dying, still we
grow and develop new life. All is in flux there is beginning and no end it
is all infinite, kaleidoscopic. One big torus knot, or more simply a Mobius
Strip, where one could follow the surface endlessly and never even grasp the
whole of it all, to live as one with the great transformation, such is the
life we are blessed with and all the knowledge that passes into and through
us.
Hilary
Shames (a.k.a. Langhorst), 638 Pine Street, Ambridge, PA 15003, (724) 252-6617
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