Resurrection
Automatism: ART. the avoidance of conscious intention in producing works of art, especially by using mechanical techniques or subconscious associations.
My early paintings portray such dark images because I was feeling great and awakened, and then dead inside. I'm so pleased to see the dark images fade, but never totally away as they are now a badge of honor that I take pride in for me.
The cathartic process of allowing the dark aspects of me to be okay by giving them form was crucial to my well-being, and to be honest, it wasn't the spiritual awakening that really got me into creative daily habits.
It was the dead inside feelings needing a healthy place to take form and live in a new light.
Processing this darkness became a source of creative inspiration for me.
After seeing myself as a spiritual or enlightened person, it was difficult to see me and accept me, as the opposite as well.
The essence of this process is alchemical in nature.
If distilled down conceptually, the Resurrection collection aims to showcase the relationship between the inner world and the outer world, and being able to observe transmutations that are taking place externally, in some sort of form, that are occurring simultaneously within the self.
In my instance, I chose paint as said form.
By making this connection, there’s something undeniably magical that happens to life that I, and others before me, and after me, have experienced and will experience, in a relative set of symbols.
It is through this alchemical process of resurrection into transmutation that we can begin to understand the union of the above and the below, the microcosm and the macrocosm reflected inside and outside the vessel of my body as a medium, and the form in which I attach my fingerprint, as what gets painted.
It has been through this artistic process that I have begun to see all things, beings, and environments as art, artists, and artistry.
As humans, we tend to think being creative is reserved for artisanal titles, but it matters not if you agree.
Nonconformity as enacted by free will, through your human vessel, is art enough to me.
<3
L.R. Bennett
