The artist often defines this aesthetic space through feelings. The process feels good for the moment. It is a euphoric moment; it is often defined as bliss.
Christine's Journal
Sometimes artists have muses, I am no exception. Muses are often their source of inspiration. Muses give the artist a sense of passion about something. My muses are words – and the concepts they conjure up for me. Words never cease to inspire me which is why I call myself a conceptual artist and why I write a blog and about beautiful moments in the day.
Blog: The Path Less Traveled
Posted on June 03 2019
Art cannot be unique and one of a kind if the artists self isn’t one of a kind. Artists recognize how hard it is to create that one of a kind as it exposes the self and makes the self vulnerable.
Blog: What do you value most about being an artist?
Posted on May 13 2019
So what is it for you – what do you value the most about being an artist?
Blog: “Queer, Divine Dissatisfaction”
Posted on May 01 2019
Dissatisfaction is a queen divine blessed unrest and I cherish it in my work. I cherish it in my life.
Blog: Art’s Value, Part II
Posted on April 30 2019
There is no doubt the aesthetic moments of beauty of bliss exist within art. But it isn’t a mindless moment. It isn’t a moment where we travel freely with no thought.
Blog: “Death of Marat”
Posted on April 30 2019
Is one form of art valued over the other? I don’t think so. If they aren’t does that mean that art can be both representational and non representational? Yes. Does that in turn mean that art can be anything and everything? No.
Blog: Easter Egg Art
Posted on April 24 2019
Not all things being called art today is art, rather it is craft, it is decoration. The distinction needs to be made or art can just be anything and everything and anyone can be an artist. If that happens, and I believe it currently is happening to the concept of art, then art is nothing.
Blog: Aesthetics and Reality in Art
Posted on April 23 2019
Art is about this type of discovery, both it’s expectations and aesthetic appearance and about the reality of the work after it has traveled through many phases of discovery and experimentation.
Blog: Robin at My Feeder
Posted on April 16 2019
8x8 acrylic and watercolor on paperInterested in the original artwork or a print? Contact Christine for more information. © Christine Alfery, Lac du Flambeau WI. Must obtain written permission for use.
Blog: Umbrellas
Posted on April 11 2019
Recently I have been placing an umbrella in my work. Usually with raindrops and in the piece I am posting here with a rainbow. This piece with the red umbrella has a rainbow off the side. The umbrella represents the power within you that protects and shelters you and your heart and your soul. It is always with you. The rainbow represents a glass half full, always looking forward not back.
Blog: Reworking the Rooster
Posted on March 14 2019
Just to show you how things change when I am working. A while back I posted a rooster sketch that I did in Costa Rica.
Blog: Does the art you make have everything you care for in it?
Posted on February 26 2019
Discussions about art defining life are every where and have been for a long time. I reflect on art and life through individualism, personal individualism. No through the lens of a social commentary of individualism within a herd one of many but an individualism that defines through uniqueness and being one of a kind.
Blog: The story is my strength
Posted on January 31 2019
The story is my strength my power the story is His strength His power In me, in you the story is everything tell your story.
Blog: Called to Paint Birds
Posted on January 18 2019
I am going to do a bird series. Yes, yes, yes the sky is blue this morning.
Blog: Creative Contraptions
Posted on January 11 2019
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Blog: Art Books
Posted on January 09 2019
I was going through the books and one I was published in had a couple of interesting statements I wrote. It is funny how things change but then again they never change.
Blog: Poet Elizabeth Tornes
Posted on October 22 2018
During the Northwoods Art Tour - poet Elizabeth Tornes visited the studio. We had a great chat and she asked if she could write a poem for my circus series.
Blog: Difference in the Arts
Posted on October 18 2018
That is difference that is what art is all about – and that is what finding the self is all about. I can’t create you, I can’t create a work of art and let you call it your work – it just doesn’t work that way.