Our New Place in this Great Mystery
Right now in history, we are all present at the birth of a new creation story. The old Adam and Eve tale of the beginning of the world is being replaced by a new scientific theory of a long ago “Big Bang”. Splendid images from the Hubble Telescope describe a universe incomprehensibly vast, and behaving strangely.
We are stardust ourselves, billion-year-old carbon. No doubt we have a right to be here. But where is the new music, the new poetry, the new art, to help us feel forward our new place in this great mystery?
I make art for the new situation in which we find ourselves. Of course, it is really about us here on Earth. Our sense of place, and the size of our imaginations, has had to stretch to include the immense new landscape of space. Somehow, it has deepened our interior space as well. My work places us in these new surroundings.
Paula Rice
Flagstaff, Arizona 2011
THE PLANET SERIES
Figurative Interpretations of The Planets Around The Sun
A Sculpture Project in Clay by Paula Rice
For a full-screen presentation, click here.
The Planet Series was exhibited at Lowell Observatory, the Rotunda, in Flagstaff, Arizona from August 5 through September 20, 2009.
Full Project Description here.
Coverage in InsideNAU, August 5, 2009 here.
Visit our Planet Series gallery here.
Professional Development 2009
Paula was a resident at the PWS Experimental Factory at Jingdezhen, China (the porcelain capital of the world) from September - October, 2009. |