Serinity Knight
ARTIST PERSONAL STATEMENT AND PROCESS
ARTIST STATEMENT
"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."
– Henry Adams
Although, I primarily consider myself to be a mixedmedia artist, I am emotionally and physically bound with the spiritual process of transforming wet clay into a workable state, caring for it in the drying stage and praying for it during the fire to
reach a finished state. Unlike clay, I am still a work in progress not having reached a finished state of being yet; but A GREAT SPIRIT is still working on me.
I am curiously fascinated with the mystery of the human condition, sacred connection to the earth and ancestral ties. As well as the beauty of form enjoying the interactive qualities of observation, sensuality, reflection and independence in bringing forth works that celebrates a sense of my womanness and the liberation of my spirit. Creating art can be both physically
challenging and emotionally difficult for me since I choose to work from the isolation of my own understanding.
As a body of work, I have created a series of ‘Spirit Healing vessel sculptures’, that take on various figurative forms giving insight of my past, present and projected future state[s] of being. The acknowledgment of weakness and the discovery of personal power are parts of the same story and both interest me equally. Transformation through art has become my saving grace helping to restore my faith, joy and [find] a renewed sense of purpose to carve my niche into a world so critical of the artist.
My greatest concern as a sculptor is to convey the illusion that deals with the internal mysteries of life and personal discovery, as a state of being and not the obvious or readily seen. The journey has been long suffering trying to create from the spirit where and which this work comes from, but there is nothing else I'd rather be doing.
My [ART] can be classified as Contemporary Figurative Surrealism; the images are sensationalized from materialized emotions that are not sustained in reality but in the subconscious soul. The work is not all personal or self portraits but an
extension of my thoughts, [good or bad], life experiences and observations.
Paradoxically they are also a mirror, reflecting the viewer’s own mind and perceptions about me back at them as my main concern is a deeper sense of communication on a rather than superficial ideologies. I want others to experience where my emotions have been, what I and others have suffered, triumphantly overcame the odds.
I allow my inner self to let go, with the help of my hands, those spirit beings that reside within me, with all their own strengths and personalities. They emerge claiming and creating their own space My hands are only the door to their
physical existence leaving my spirit free. Each is a pieced together memory like a soul dialog between me and you. When I am gone and archaeologists’ pulls SHARDS of my pieces from the earth, I want them to connect with me through the ages, instinctively as one human gazing at another.
Artist SERINITY KNIGHT
