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Had stopped by Karen Allendoerfer’s place, A Thousand Finds, this morning. She had done a post about how the geo cachers were helping clean up their neck of the woods for Earth Day. Great post! And a very important job to take on.
She also had talked about a “bio generator” she’d run across that basically put together a bio for you based on three words. It sounded kind of fascinating, so I gave it a shot. At first I was taken aback, then miffed, then delighted as I got used to the idea of what it had spit out. The three words I’d picked were language, poetic, and alienation. Truthfully it left me a little CONFUSED but it may also be RIGHT ON THE MONEY! LOL
Cheryl D. Carter
Cheryl D. Carter (1951, Marion, United States) is an artist who works in a variety of media. By manipulating the viewer to create confusion, Carter wants to amplify the astonishment of the spectator by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil poetic images that leave traces and balances on the edge of recognition and alienation.
Her artworks appear as dreamlike images in which fiction and reality meet, well-known tropes merge, meanings shift, past and present fuse. Time and memory always play a key role. By investigating language on a meta-level, she tries to grasp language. Transformed into art, language becomes an ornament. At that moment, lots of ambiguities and indistinctnesses, which are inherent to the phenomenon, come to the surface.
Her works focus on the inability of communication which is used to visualise reality, the attempt of dialogue, the dissonance between form and content and the dysfunctions of language. In short, the lack of clear references are key elements in the work. By applying a poetic and often metaphorical language, she often creates several practically identical works, upon which thoughts that have apparently just been developed are manifested: notes are made and then crossed out again, ‘mistakes’ are repeated.
Her works are on the one hand touchingly beautiful, on the other hand painfully attractive. Again and again, the artist leaves us orphaned with a mix of conflicting feelings and thoughts.
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Seriously! I think they get me! LOL 😀 Thanks, Karen! I found this VERY enlightening. 🙂 And if you would care to give it a go, you can find the bio generator here… So what do YOU think, those of you who have had a chance to lurk around inside my head??? 😀
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I thought this was really fitting: “Her artworks appear as dreamlike images in which fiction and reality meet, well-known tropes merge, meanings shift, past and present fuse. Time and memory always play a key role.” I also liked the “painfully attractive” part. I’ve always wanted to be painfully attractive 😉
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Thanks for coming to my blog and for the shout-out!
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Painfully attractive people tend to scare me off… They remind me of how much I feel I lack. You’re a beautiful woman. You don’t need to add painfully attractive. (And good Lord! You’ve got brains on top of that! 😉 )
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You’re right, painfully attractive people tend to scare me off too. There have just been times when there were certain people I wanted to attract, and I wasn’t successful. And I don’t necessarily mean physically attractive. . . For example, I think your writing is attractive. Maybe “inviting” is a better word, but your blog and your style are very welcoming and they make you want to be there.
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Well thank you, Karen. I appreciate that. 🙂
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A complicated “generator” for your words, but they did turn out to be words you could use well.
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I’m STILL trying to understand half of what it says. LOL It was fun and interesting, though.
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I find it intriguing and apt. Seems to capture your essence 🙂 I’m going over to have a play !
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😀
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That is a strange thing indeed!
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Yes, it was kind of eerie.
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That is fun 🙂
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Feel free to post your bio on here! 😀
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Raili TANSKA
Raili TANSKA (Northfield, Australia) is an artist who works in a variety of media. By merging several seemingly incompatible worlds into a new universe, TANSKA tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work.
Her artworks directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. With a conceptual approach, she often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.
Her works bear strong political references. The possibility or the dream of the annulment of a (historically or socially) fixed identity is a constant focal point. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, she uses a visual vocabulary that addresses many different social and political issues. The work incorporates time as well as space – a fictional and experiential universe that only emerges bit by bit.
Her works are characterised by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of middleclass mentality in which recognition plays an important role. Raili TANSKA currently lives and works in Adelaide.
Now what do you make of that?!
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Wow! I think they kind of nailed it for you! Do you?
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That’s just how I see your work — touchingly beautiful yet painfully attractive. Love it!
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Good heavens, Lori! I’m blushing here. Anything I write is just me trying to be honest. Thank you for your comment. I’m a bit overwhelmed. Interestingly, I see the same thing in you and Ruth, and SueBE, and so many others on here. I think that’s why I’ve fallen in love with blogging. It does give one a platform to just be themselves. 🙂
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