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\"Tricia1\"<\/a>I create two and three dimensional art that is inspired by prehistoric female symbols.\u00a0 Some of the materials I use are heavy, solid and opaque, yet, I believe the art has air and atmosphere.\u00a0 Other mediums are fluid, transparent and subtle.\u00a0 The surface of my work and the hues of my palette are an integral part of my language, as the symbol prevails.\u00a0 The ancient female sculptures are repeated onto a burnt sienna, copper, textured canvas.\u00a0 The images are documentary, seem filled with immanence, suspended in time and space, while attempting to rid the artist\u2019s traces from the surface.\u00a0 My art integrates subject matter and historical narrative with myth and metaphor in a way that reverberates both backward and forward in time.\u00a0 There is a mystery about the past, its ancient sites, temples, symbols and artifacts.\u00a0 Archaeological remains of many prehistoric cultures provide abundant evidence of belief in the female as sacred.\u00a0 For me, it is not simply a matter of making art, it is about the art of discovery, linking the past to the future in a continuing cycle of experience.\u00a0 It is about what has been forgotten and what we choose to remember.\u00a0 It is extraordinary how many ancient symbols and images have survived, revealing themselves again and again throughout history and in contemporary art. Ancient images are a catalyst for future knowledge.<\/p>\n

I consider my art to be a dialogue, while attempting to invoke tradition, paying homage to the prehistoric female and renewing her in a light of contemporary experience.\u00a0 The poetry of Anne Sexton has also had a significant influence upon my work.\u00a0 Her poetry speaks of compelling and passionate truths.\u00a0 Sexton was labeled a confessional poet, but considered herself a storyteller first.\u00a0 Artists are also telling stories through their art.\u00a0 Sexton hungered for salvation, her desire and frustration in reaching out for the divine.\u00a0 Her poetry offers me ways of exploring the importance and elements of both the origin of ourselves and of art history.<\/p>\n

My passion for the ancient, sculpted symbols took me to Italy and then to the islands of Malta in the late 90\u2019s where hundreds of sculptures and etchings have been found depicting women.\u00a0 The plethora of corpulent female symbols found exemplify a place that created a language through the art of symbol making.\u00a0 Concentrated within the land of the Maltese Islands, lies a series of monumental temples, built approximately more than five thousand years ago.\u00a0 Associated with them is a rich material culture, with not only pottery, but limestone sculptures, relief patterns, etchings, vessels and fertility figures.\u00a0 From the hundreds of artifacts discovered, a female divinity appeared to have been worshipped or celebrated as a life giving source.\u00a0 What transpired from my experiences in Malta, exhibitions and research, is an ongoing body of art.\u00a0 Conscious recognition of prehistoric art enables me to make my art viable as commentary in the present world.<\/p>\n

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