• K. Trowbridge
  • Buffalo Rifle
  • Jack Baker
  • James C. Bassett
  • Laura Hamje
  • Absolution
  • Kathy Liao
  • Lisa Reynolds
  • Finding the 'Real'
  • Autumn Azure
  • Retroactive
  • Karol Fern Sample
  • "Vitriol"
  • Quetzalcoatl
  • Marie Gagnon
  • Tina Mckim
  • New Fiction
  • Almendra Sandoval
  • Linda Waterfall
  • William Cumming
  • Margot Bird
  • Charles Spitzack
  • Dean Wenick
SeattleArtBloc 

Featured Artist

Karol Fern Sample
in
  "Childhood's Splendor"

DreamScapes

Childhood’s Splendor
  Pete Milosovich © 2011

Penetrating the sources of orthodox indifference the heretic attempts to reinvent all notion of spiritual and eternal love for the self, perhaps noble, perhaps selfish, and perhaps out of fear. At some point the ego must prevail if any of us will manifest into something stronger, more guarded and cautious, but inevitably stalwart in the face of universal cruelty. But is creating our own eternal expressions of love more important than the institutions that bind? Does such an individual response create yet another grand narrative characterized by certain characteristics that can be recognized as much ‘looser’ interpretations of existing dominant canons?

Ms. Sample expresses her indomitable spirit with carefully constructed and crafted images that remain bound to innocence, a choice she chooses to reflect on even when her most vital explorations produce nearly unrecognizable organic forms. Yet this fiery ball that burns within the infinite confines of the imagination continues to create intangibles that some like Ms. Sample choose to articulate. These unexplainable, discordant features of the vibrant imagination emerge from a place of peace, rather than 

hostility.

Unable to escape the honor bound traditions of Surrealism in her work she still becomes capable of articulating her own visions of seemingly fantastic worlds that compels us to yearn, grapple, and grasp for so much more; desperate perhaps to escape a world plagued by hard lines, horrendous news, and digital dominance whether we like it or not. These institutions that maintain the dominant modes of expressions plague us with endless reams of selling points, murder, and mayhem. Welcome to Ms. Sample’s world of peace; bathe, reinterpret, and reinvent, but most of all attempt to forget the sharp impenetrable cruelties that peck at our souls…

if only for a brief while.


DreamScapes

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