Holly Sargent: capstone
Date
2015
Authors
Sargent, Holly, artist
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The artist's statement: My art is inspired by my spiritual relationship with Jesus Christ. I don't expect everyone that encounters my work to understand the theology of what I am expressing, but I spend my creative efforts to reach intimacy with His heart and the product gets to be displayed for all to see. I work with fabric and string; flowers and rocks, light and shadow. I am interested in textures that are tangled and chaotic. I sew and weave and stich and dye. These painstaking processes are my grief and my joy. Fabric tears, string breaks, dye fades, so why toil? Yet this is what I live for. I work with mud and fire, dirt and glass. I desire to contain; to display. I mix and pound and flatten and join. I pinch and press and carve and wait. Then I send my vessels into the flame. They become stronger, and I fill them with treasures. I am a vessel. His love fills me. I work with color and canvas. I paint visions of joy and capture views of peace. It's not just ideal, it's true. If I can explain truth through my brush, it looks like beauty. I work with notes and chords and emotion. I work with softs and louds, fasts and slows. I let loose the words of my spirit, and tell the stories of my soul. Music is my joy and His presence is always in that place. Art is spiritual. Art is healing. I spend hours enjoying creation in nature but I have to use my eyes that really see, and my ears that really hear. When I do, I get blitzed with gifts of beauty. Love notes written with grass and rivers and light. I must respond. I must worship. I must create. My art explores my heart, but also shows me His.
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Colorado State University Art and Art History Department capstone project.
Capstone contains the artist's statement, a list of works, and images of works.
Capstone contains the artist's statement, a list of works, and images of works.
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fibers