ORIGINAL BLISS: Send Me an Angel

January 31, 2010

Send Me an Angel

Have you noticed that many artists have a theme, color palette, or symbol that they gravitate to?

I tend to experiment a lot with different styles, ideas, and color.

But there is a predominant, recurrent symbol in my work.

The angel.

They show up again and again.

But not your typical celestial being of heaven.

Over and over I find myself creating humans as angel.

This is never planned. It just becomes so along the way. Usually because I find WINGS everywhere. Wings in images of magazines, books, catalogs and flyers. They appear magically on a daily basis.

Like this page for instance.

I started with an old, reusable Trader Joe's bag - because I liked the colors and patterns.

And I pulled out my favorite blue acrylic - because it matched the bag - and it is my favorite blue.

And I dug out the body from my ephemera box.

I had the an epiphany of incorporating different heads on the little body and came up with the wheel/halo idea.

As I was cutting the bag into strips, I noticed there were wings printed on the bag. Up in an out of the way corner. I'd never noticed them there before because they blended into the chaos of the other imagery.

And my imperfect, little girls became winged.

Whenever I find wings and feathers, I imagine my personal angels must be saying,

"Hello! Remember us today. Remember who you are."

They keep sending me wings for a reason.

Namaste,

C H E Z

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