CECELIA REMBERT
The spark of my painting is interior. An idea, emotion or event is the seed, and surrounding that seed are a constellation of concurrent ideas, a nebula of the history and context that surrounds each idea or event. In my work I explore the idea and its many satellites, compressing ideas and narratives on top of each other spatially and temporally. Through color, mark and image, I make real the seed so that I can see it. My paintings serve as visual journal and narrative, condensing and exploring life events, memories, and thoughts.
The initiating seed is personal, but the work is intended to be universal, to resonate with others. My paintings are inscribed with myths old and new, metaphors and signs. I am interested in archetypes, symbols and images, and how these form a language of their own, woven throughout history. I see life as multi-layered, our unique individual interactions overlaid on an ancient armature of mythic archetypes and narratives that we rarely recognize. I invite these narratives into my work, and even as I am excavating a seed of my personal experience, I am relishing its temporal and existential universality.
Magnolia, 2014, oil on canvas, 64x64 in.