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Tree Stokes
Portfolio Artist Statement Online Information   Theatre V and Returning Transparent watercolor and graphite 37X45" framed (24X32" unframed), ©2004   Kinsite Self Transparent watercolor and graphite 24X20" framed (15X11" unframed), ©2004  The full Venus site and its composite details are variations of an imagined place. The place is not, with certainty, where it appears to be, nor is it quite pinned down. The aerial viewer is placed at a great distance spanning the site, or is drawn more closely above. The perspective abstracts. A history of flying dreams unconsciously influences the work. The first conscious and memorable influence was a stunning aerial view of Spain from an airplane. This experience was very closely followed by the profound impact of my initial encounter with ancient architectural ruins in Spain. Portals, they so powerfully expressed both the eternal and the temporal.
These memories were displaced until many years later when--serendipity--I chanced upon a catalyst. A nineteenth century drawing of the ruins of the Temple of Venus shocked my memory and I recalled what I had forgotten. |
