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Kara Smith

artist and educator
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Alone Together

This collection of paintings emerge from the intersection of two fascinations:

I am a collector: imagery from dreams, ephemeral materials, personal anecdotes, archetypal symbols and myths that evoke a flashback – or faint sense of familiarity.

I observe body language, fleeting moments and peculiar ways people connect to each other and co-exist, looking to honor the subconscious mind.

The results reference the ghostly, unfixed memories that make up our collective personal histories.  I honor the fact that memory is not fixed, and is instead, a process of reconstructing, distorting, omitting and then passing on through generations. I’m particularly interested in what we choose to remember and what we choose to forget.  

 

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