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Aleta was born in
??? in 1954. She received most of her training from ???. Aleta employs traditional aesthetic guidelines such as the relational exploration of shape, colors, edges, lines, textures etc.
She considers her paintings a visual portrait of a ???, i.e. an ongoing two-way conversation between the subject and artist. It is the nature of the interaction that determines the particular style of the painting. When not painting,
she is an avid cyclist, writes children's books and ??? in Huntsville
Alabama.
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Artist Statement??? My life has been a journey full of questions and discoveries. Being perennially curious, I have traveled a circuitous path that makes sense only as I grow older. A few highlights: Why I Paint??? The intrigue and challenge for me is to portray the physical subject as well as the "energy" or vibration of what I am painting. When I paint in Nature I strive to portray the conversation I am having with the Spirit of the place. I often experience and try to portray a visual phenomenon wherein I see matter and energy continually transforming into each other (an energy/matter cusp). Some paintings lie more on one or the other side of that cusp but the purpose of all the paintings is to encourage the viewer to experience both sides simultaneously. When observing this way: "...There is a subtle change which makes the sight see in a sort of fourth dimension, the character of which is a certain internality, the seeing not only of the superficies and the outward form, but of that which informs it and subtly extends around it. The material object becomes in this sight something different from what we now see, not a separate object on the background or in the environment of the rest of Nature but an indivisible part and even in a subtle way and expression of the unity of all that we see. And this unity is that of the identity of the eternal, the unity of the Spirit." --Sri Aurobindo My ultimate goal is to artistically point the way to the experience and the expression of that unity of the Spirit. |
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