In the Wild
Photo: John Noltner © Genesis+Art
Wild Rice Retreat Center
Apostle Islands, Wisconsin
The purpose of our non-representational art is to provide a porous visual language and the reality to which it points, open to your experience as the viewer. We trust that you will continue the image and finish the thought, out of your encounter with it.
Art enables us to move past our perceptions of soundless beauty to find a language that might allow us to move and to shake out in the real world, even if it makes us feel like a traveler in a strange and distant world. Many times, your response to a piece of art doesn’t always allow you to discharge your feelings by talking about it – there is nothing much to say. What is meaningful or beautiful in the painting are not like words, it is paint – silent, direct, resisting translation even to thought, trapping a response in you like a little bird beating its wings in your chest.
Works of art and the life that swirls around them can change meaning just as you change over time. Perhaps in a quieter place we see beauty, grace, peace, and loss – allowing the art to reveal deeper meaning we hold within us. This is the power of art and the imagination.
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