Sequin Kay
ART Habens
obsession with keeping past memories and objects in my personal orbit and energetically I realised they were tying me to the past, not allowing me to move forward. I have always been inspired by the teachings, from Ancient Egypt, and their philosophies on the afterlife and mummification. I have taken an element of their rituals and practice and integrated them into my work. The actuality of mummifying a physical object and or memory I feel transforms it into another state of existence, one of positivity. Your practice is intrinsically connected to the chance of creating an area of deep interplay with the viewers, that are urged to evolve from the condition of a merely passive audience. In particular, the nature your investigation about spirituality has reminded me of the idea behind Thomas Demand's works, when he stated that "nowadays art can no longer rely much on symbolic strategies and has to probe psychological narrative elements within the medium instead". While conceiving Art could be considered an abstract activity, there is always a way of giving it a permanence that goes beyond the intrinsic ephemeral nature of the concepts you explore. So I would take this occasion to ask you if in your opinion personal experience is an absolutely indespensable part of a creative process... Do you think that a creative process could be disconnected from direct experience?
In my opinion personal experience is a huge factor in the creative process as I relate and draw upon personal experiences to guide and teach me ways of moving forward. Personal experiences leave an imprint in our being one way of another and the creative outlet is a way of processing these feelings and experiences. I take a huge amount of inspiration from the world around me, especially symbols or repeated pattern I see cropping up in my journeys. Instead of drawing from within I am now looking outwards how to inspire people how to move people and direct their attention and give them a more direct understanding of their own inherent power and knowledge. I think personal experience is important within the creative process as it guides in your decision making when you choose materials and your way of working.
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Summer 2015