Waking Field

I Said Kiss Me You Are Beautiful, These are Truly the Last Days, oil on canvas

by ashley brown

"Waking Field"
September 1 - October 1, 2007
@

Gourmet Perks
165 Merrimon Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
Weekdays 7 to 4 pm
Saturday 8 to 4 pm

Reception For Artist: Sunday, September 2, 7 to 9 pm

Information: AshleyElizabeth.org or 615.944.5400

We are, all of us, perhaps for our whole lives, waking. From a daydream where we have dared drink from our deepest memories. From the clean cut circles of stereotypes we were placed inside. From a good night‘s sleep or a numbness. We are waking into something quite different than what came before. Into an adventure where everything we touch is both perfectly new and completely home. Into a to do list or a craving. A utopia or a nightmare, a prayer or ourselves.
We wake into moments of vulnerability, the sudden bearing of these, once, mysteries, to a companion or passerby. Our bodies becoming wordless stories of our fearful, beautiful, and immeasurable truths. When I paint, I try and listen to what bodies say in these moments. The reminders lips pin in. The weight bones have carried. The landscapes eyes reflect. Shhh, Look. We are telling our secrets.