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Artist Statement
Marlow D. J. Shami
A thread-like intelligence attracts my attention in the art making process. These attractions are the foundation of my creative impulse-- they are everywhere. My job is to follow their pull, collaborating, as best as I can, to reveal something new to both myself and for those experiencing my work.
Like words used to build a story, sensory attractions build my experience. I wait, listen, trust, pause, listen, leap, stop, and begin again to collect, compose, wonder, experience.
Each mosaic like piece within the Restoration series was photographed during the winter, spring, summer, or autumn seasons. Many hours spent outside in nature form the matrix on which I build. The process of creating each of the finished pieces of work elicited a restorative response within me. The colors, smells, sounds, personality of the seasons, even the warm August breeze, touched me—as I worked in the dead of winter compiling separate elements into a whole.
The finished work within this series may appear to be symmetrical, it is not, but in fact, it is simply a reflection of internal urgings to create balance. Perfect imperfection.
My intention is to offer an opportunity for the viewer to experience their unique sensory narrative and perhaps find a meditative space to rest within.
These works are digital photographic composites. I’ve culled down a selection of images from hundreds of photographs. Small segments from these selected images are chosen based on color, texture, shape, and relationship to the whole. I have abstracted the selected subject in nature, building an image that reflects the balance I experienced while photographically documenting my encounter. I work with a Cannon digital camera and the Photoshop program on an Apple computer. There is no manipulation of the photographs or the segments I choose to incorporate within the artwork.
Marlow Shami short biography
Marlow D. J. Shami, is a visual artist, writer, and teacher of Nature-based healing and creativity.
Most recently Ms. Shami's work has been juried into exhibitions at the historic Salmagundi Club NYC, NY, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center’s Illuminations Program in Boston and Danvers, MA, and the Behring Institute for Medical Research, Netherlands. Behring Institute selected Iris, a piece within the body of work entitled, Restoration, for the Art of Healing study, a long-term international research project, focusing on the influence of art on public health.
Shami's early work as an award-winning independent-film maker, and later, with CBS news, compelled a life-long inquiry into causes and repercussions of nature-disconnected human activity. Shami seeks to render through her art, natural sources available to identify and heal this schism.
The direct experience of dynamic relationships within the natural world informs Shami’s work.
www.marlowshami.com
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