Artist Statements, White Tea, Limerence Clothing Line and their Philosophy.

I just sent through my artists statements to Limerence which will be displayed on the wall next to each painting.

Symbiosis -

I belong to these trees
They are my family
my homes, my sisters, my brothers.
For I grew and evolved from what
They once did, too.

Here is a representation of human's ideal relationship with nature. A woman displayed religiously, as a personification of Mother Earth, completes the cycles which surround her with her nurturing eyes in the direction to her growing children. The golden circle stands ambiguously, suggesting the representation of a halo or a sun. Clouds in the background illustrate the circle of life, raining down to the Earth, creating a river down into the ground to the tree's roots. Mushrooms on Mother's head symbolize new creation growing from decomposed life. Each element of the painting has a niche to fill, balancing a mutual circle which enables the homeostasis of the Earth; but is human's contemporary relationship with its mother symbiotic? Or is this a cry to save ourselves from the parasites we've become?

Meal Ticket

A strong, beautiful woman from a tribal community celebrates her hunt by wearing its skull on their head like an accessory to denote status. This parallels contemporary society's obsession for expensive jewels to provide the wearer with a presumed high echelon. She has filled so many basic drives which the brain rewards for achieving: exercise, achievement, contribution and giving to her community, confidence and the pleasure of food, to name a few. Does our society function so we can benefit from our meal tickets in the same way? Or is currency a poor substitute for the innate pleasure of interaction and contribution to our community. Is the reward of money so psychologically removed from the instant reward hunting would provide? Are we putting too much emphasis on earning rather than the contribution? The way we are currently expected to earn meal tickets, may not provide us with all the psychological benefits that living has to offer.