Alicia Popoff - Psychic Garden
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The world that we live in now, what we see is important. Obviously it’s our physical reality, but there are other levels of reality that we are aware of that we don’t necessarily see, and whether that’s inner worlds or dream worlds or imagination, or if it’s again about breaking down the physical world into the microcosmic. And that’s where that whole series came from (The Psychic Gardens). There is historical references to gardens such as Biblical and different things, and the garden also is about growth and new ideas, and it’s about the seasons and the things that die off and the coming back. So that has always been a fascination, about the continuity of life. And gardens are part of that. And obviously living in the country I have a real interest in gardening and trees and plants and growth, so The Psychic Garden was just…at that time I was using that expression to say that certainly it is the physical world, but there is something that is more of a world beyond, I guess. And even though there are other layers of meaning in terms of the talking about the gardens and the prairies and living in the country…and those are there, but they are not directly there because I am not depicting them. I am not doing the representation of my world by painting a sunset, but I might be using the colours of the sunset because I just saw it last night. So when I am working, it’s just like you feel a sense of all these things, and you really are – I was going to say struggling, it’s not a stuggle, but it’s more of a challenge of how do I put that into my work? How do I pull that off so that it starts to work as something beyond just paint and colour texture on paper? How does it become something that is a composition? That is starting to have meaning not just for me but for other people.

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