I have spent the past year working for some amazing and talented individuals. Each experience has enlightened new areas of myself. In the past three months I have been settling into my own skin, once again, and ethnographically studying myself. My work has been internal, and this has left a gap in my artistic endeavors, at least the tangible ones. For this artist, these periods, though necessary, create a striking dichotomy. On one side my being, my spirit, and my body crave the process, crave the investigation of material, and long for the hours lost to the busy repetition of my hands. On the other side, my intellectual mind drives me further into the earthwork, the day to day, the seeking externally for what lives within me. As I begin a new journey, to be certified as a Forrest Yoga Instructor, my only expectation is that things will change. Then, perhaps more images will be uploaded, new studies preformed, birthing yet more work, more giving, and more joy. Thank you.
close (x)In this life I have been trusted with the gift of a varied perspective. I choose to illustrate this with my hands, by creating works both of fluidity and stagnation, introversion and noise, and constant variation. Each piece represents a study of material, space, and time. I have further elaborated a few into bodies of work, further delving into the material, the method, and the location.
As a maker, my experience is in creating works of three dimensions, ones that strive to answer the most basic questions of man. What is real? What is time? What is space?
I vacillate between helping other artists to fulfill their goals, and aspiring for my own. I am not sure which is more fulfilling. I believe a combination of the two is just right.
I believe I am currently on the edge of something great, something wonderful, something both profound and exciting. I have also succumbed to the fact that it may have already taken place.
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close (x)Mary Quinn Templeton
maryq082379@gmail.com
(404) 867-5309 (m)
Photography by MaiBri
