Stranger Worth

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We would like to introduce ourselves Pamela Holmes and Patrick Gourley are presently collaborating by tying themselves together to paint. The confluence of creativity exists in collaboration outside the confines of habits, ideologies, preferences, deliberations, dictates, or rules. The artist most often works alone, we are embarked upon creating a collaboration that removes each of us and allows our shared consciousness to find a place of creative abandonment leaving the structures of self-imposed isolation. I am not, Pamela is not, therefore we are.

At first appears it would be easy to achieve some equilibrium but the need to be either passive or dominant reaches the middle which is not compromise but is a psychic battle of sorts, between each other and the painting. At some point the need to focus on the act of painting becomes overriding and so in this way the two merge and inhabit this new entity. We hope our method and work intrigues you.

  • Our Artist Statement

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    Our Endeavor is about a collaboration of the unconscious. A collision of two artistic natures. When tied together, we act as one, but that one is only distinguished by being together. When we come together, we make the decision to subvert our personal perceptions and transfer our awareness of shared consciousness made available by the…

  • Radix Ipsiu

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    I am a very curious person. I ask lots of questions. I often wonder what was in the Alexandria libraries that were burnt down. What antiquities have been lost in all the wars humanity has raged? What went on in the mystery schools in Egypt? What is going on in all the research laboratories in…

  • Conscious Freedom

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    An artist confronts their vulnerability daily. One immediately has to address how free they are, how many snares one is bound up in, where one’s energies leak out. The realization that there is no freedom in escape screams loudly to someone trying to create. There is nowhere to go but towards oneself. One may ask,…

  • The Hannover Principles

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    William McDonough and Michael Braungart 1992 1. Insist on the rights of humanity and nature to co-exist in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition. 2. Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design interact with and depend upon the natural world, with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations for recognizing even…