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MICHAELENE WALSH
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ARTIST STATEMENT
To best give an overview of my work, I would say that the impetus for it comes from my experience of reading poetry. I am interested in how poets arrive at compelling poems. A good poet can take an ordinary word or image and put it together with another somewhat ordinary word or image to create a surprising feeling - a sensation in the gut that is unusual, striking, fresh and memorable. My goal as an artist is to try to do this visually - to bring seemingly disparate, ordinary, or unremarkable images together to form something memorable.
I think of my best work as creating an opening or clearing a path for what is heartfelt and poetic in the ordinary to come through. Yet, I know too that latent within the ordinary are bittersweet and paradoxical feelings that betray these simple sentiments. Sweetness and pleasure felt in seeing or recalling certain objects or experiences often intermingle with feelings of sadness, loss and regret.
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