Throughout my years
as a fine artist I have always felt that the clay I used, or the paint
or the inks that I applied were 'connected' to the spirit at the core of
the thing I was trying to interpret visually/artistically. The old barn
sitting on the edge of a small wood, the soothsayer with the shadowed
face, an avatar briefly glimpsed in the city, the storm calm or fierce
blowing across the shoals speaking a foreign tongue, the busied
schoolchildren, and the brooding poet, land and faces unfamiliar and
sometimes too familiar all have the seeds of spirit of momentous
eternities of experience- that is moods, feelings, hurts, joys, loves
and connections to this physical place we call Earth.
What is not immediately seen or studied in all its physical beauty is
what I try to discover when I make art- being drawn into that quiet
place, the centre, of any living thing on earth and projecting it out
again to be seen on the surface with line, colour, shape, is my desire
as an artist. These centres are filled with energies that
can sometimes be found by the magic of art and artists. Everyone marvels
at this magic when it embodies truth- an universal elixir. When
working on the creation in three-dimensional form, of the artist NORVAL MORRISSEAU,
I worked with the clay visually with energies in transmutation. In other
words, what we would call perfection of physical form- reflecting the
human element from the centres of energies that are unseen physically
but connect with our personal cores of being, overwhelming us with
expectations of hope, life, desire, strength, accomplishment, and the
truth we search for in love with love. This evolves not only from the
artist's perspective spiritually, but a joint venture between the
subject, NORVAL
MORRISSEAU and the sculptor. The sculptor has to
understand the impossible, the essence of the life at its core of being
a universal spirit-being and being guided intimately in a communication
between subject being sculpted and, sculptor. There is no difference
between us when we cross this bridge, and an artist will understand
this: "We are One".
This Website has been created by "Web Spirit" / the anonymous art collector/. These
pages are
ONLY to be used
in honour of the Mind, Body and Spirit of Copper Thunderbird better known as Norval Morrisseau
- Grand Shaman of the Ojibway. Also, the content from
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SUSAN MURAR
- MORRISSEAU SCULPTOR
MORRISSEAU SCULPTOR