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CATHARINE CARTER: When I think about the title of this show, “Breathe” I am reminded how often we go through our busy day without stopping to take a breath and check in with our feelings. It is in those moments when I stop and take a breath, the act of inhaling and exhaling can put me in touch with my thoughts and allow me be open to inspiration. My art starts with recognizing an especially prominent or troubling thought or feeling that that makes me wonder why it has my attention. My piece ‘Open Book’ celebrates how a great story can spark your imagination. In ‘Bubbles’ I was thinking about the fragility of life and ‘Omen’ is the representation of a foreshadowing feeling.
SUSAN HOPE: Breathe…We all do it. It is automatic. It is life. As I anticipated a fast approaching deadline, and as you might imagine, had to calmly breathe.. a lot… and gratefully wait for the ideas to rise out of attention to the moment. Sometimes the inspiration just wasn’t there. Sometimes the muse was missing. Sometimes the glass or the kiln didn’t cooperate. Staying focused was a challenge.The work for this show reflects my continued experimentation with glass as it is broken, fragmented, crushed and melted again and again. Working in this technique enabled me to create more painterly images, unlimited colors and a variety of textures. It is a slow process. Each firing in the kiln can be as long as 24 hours and each piece is fired 4–6 times before they are cleaned and polished. I now see these ‘down times’ as the breath taken in the space between bursts of activity. It was good to have time to think and rest. In the silence of the kiln the many broken pieces of glass became fused into a whole piece again. Just as in my life, creation and healing happen in the quiet and rest as I patiently, intentionally…breathe.
JUDE LOBE: The title BREATHE to me is about finding peace and calm in the beauty of nature. Our exhibit is a call out to breathe and find the beauty around us. Rather than fretting about the past and/or future, BREATHE means live in the moment. My art is inspired by the nature around me which convinces me all living and so-called ‘non-living’ things have energy and are interwoven and connected to support one another’s survival. By listening and viewing nature around us we can learn all that we need to know. And so, we should recognize that as a part of nature, and our survival, depends on the survival of the natural world around us. Protecting it allows us to BREATHE.