ULTRA CONTEMPORARY ARTIST STATEMENT | ABSTRACT WATERCOLOR EARTH ARTIST ROSE EADS

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"I believe that everything is energy. All life on Earth holds spirit and through every action, there is a reaction. An endless exchange of constant flowing energy. When a river flows it carries its spirit along with it. Its essence invisible, but as an artist I feel that energy. When you step into a forest you are entering a network of conversation, both below and above ground. It may be unheard by human ears but it is there. A mountain speaks beneath the surface of the Earth, albeit silent to us.

If I was to take that essence of a river, of the forest, of a mountain and hold it physically in a closed loop in my hands, I would be capturing consciousness. Our ancestry and roots are becoming more and more blurred everyday. I try to remember and translate a lost language of the Earth in my work. I am slowly unfolding this language each time I paint, and in turn I am rediscovering my own roots.

My process when painting is a response to emotions felt in direct relationship to the natural world. My paintings depict a harnessed energy of captured consciousness. A sacred moment recorded in a closed circle. I try to resurrect and summon the deepest connection to our Mother, The Earth, for myself and the viewer.

I paint the spirit of water you feel, but never see. I paint the quiet smoke, under the mountain. I paint Eyes of the Earth. I paint from my soul core, but most of all, I paint what I feel we are forgetting and must try to remember.

We must find ourselves, and redefine ourselves, in these lost places with our Mother The Earth, in mind."

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