Art is an Evolutionary Process . . .

". . . Created in the space between the subject and Voyeur”

By Margo Scott Candelario

Pablo Picasso said, “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

The month of January is a time for cleaning house, with 31 days to reflect on the year’s challenges, triumphs, mishaps, and forgiveness.

Poetry, prose, painting, photography, scrapping, textiles, and pottery to name a few are wonderful forms of creative expression, linking generations of culture, geography, and voice into infinite language.

Fine artists, artisans, and crafters all deserve applause for the emotion lent to creating work that frees the body of the artist while captivating the mind and soul of the voyeur. 

Self- taught artist are all the rage, sharing ideas, styles and technique over the blogosphere, armed with canvas, paint, glue and scissors creating fabulous works of decorative and useful art.

“Mixed media” is a personal favorite and the seasonal buzzword for new artist because of its nonconforming nature.  The collaboration of fabric and paint with wood and plastic was considered Avant- Garde, an unwelcomed pushing of boundaries for some, but in 2011 and 2012 it’s just cool.

Abstract painting is another form of expression that unfolds tidbits of storyline at intervals, entertaining the onlooker with changes of perspective. If word play is your thing, incorporate poetry and paint to create a masterful piece of space in time.

If you haven’t already experienced the joy of painting, or crafting, open your mind to experience the gift that gives back.

Margo Scott was born in San Bernardino, California. She moved to New York at the age of seventeen, where her interest in the arts and culture flourished. She attended Germaine School of Photography in 1984 studying commercial manipulation of lights, props, cable releases and the dark room, spending hours in the dark studying every shade of gray. She welcomed the challenge of discovering where her talents were the strongest, behind the lens in plain sight or in the dark.

Ms Candelerio can be reached at margocandelario.com