-Artist's Statement-
In the absence of certainty.
Landscape painted from imagining.
For answers to console my restless thoughts I search for an agnostic god;
to solve the spirals that tie knots inside my head, I search in forgotten
memories and archival places.
There is a wish to connect to a lost, hidden and disoriented subconscious,
the search of imagination, seeking answers to this modern paradigm in which we exist.
With muffled footsteps, I step through a restless wind.
Sometimes I feel overwhelmed, and so create and construct an imaginary world where I can have some control. A place where I can hide, where I can play safely, without a safety net
In this world there is no hunger, no wars, no politics, no money, and no religion; instead there is a world of faith, hope and decency.
Ego, despair, jealousy, power and greed are buried in the earth, concealed under the trees and contained in a Pandora's Box, unopened and undiscovered in a hidden place...with Hope hovering around its rim.
This make believe land, this world of discovery is where you can find me.
I attempt to keep things simple, that less is more, Occam's razor - the fewer
assumptions made the better.... trying to make sense of a seemingly ordered world
that is in disorder and meaningless...in brief, absurd.
This unreasonable silence plays havoc with an individual mind and the collective
world where in both strain against each other without the possibility of satisfactory
embrace or resolution.
Yet here I am among paint and pigment making an alchemic world where neither sense nor the absurd can find me.
Hilary Herrmann
2014
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Landscape painted from imagining.
For answers to console my restless thoughts I search for an agnostic god;
to solve the spirals that tie knots inside my head, I search in forgotten
memories and archival places.
There is a wish to connect to a lost, hidden and disoriented subconscious,
the search of imagination, seeking answers to this modern paradigm in which we exist.
With muffled footsteps, I step through a restless wind.
Sometimes I feel overwhelmed, and so create and construct an imaginary world where I can have some control. A place where I can hide, where I can play safely, without a safety net
In this world there is no hunger, no wars, no politics, no money, and no religion; instead there is a world of faith, hope and decency.
Ego, despair, jealousy, power and greed are buried in the earth, concealed under the trees and contained in a Pandora's Box, unopened and undiscovered in a hidden place...with Hope hovering around its rim.
This make believe land, this world of discovery is where you can find me.
I attempt to keep things simple, that less is more, Occam's razor - the fewer
assumptions made the better.... trying to make sense of a seemingly ordered world
that is in disorder and meaningless...in brief, absurd.
This unreasonable silence plays havoc with an individual mind and the collective
world where in both strain against each other without the possibility of satisfactory
embrace or resolution.
Yet here I am among paint and pigment making an alchemic world where neither sense nor the absurd can find me.
Hilary Herrmann
2014
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