People Tell Their Stories:
About the Artists Whose Art Appears on this Site

Madalin blue is a teacher and artist living and working in Ashland, OR. She has done installation and site specific work since 197l-utilizing paintings, found objects, ceramic sculpture, photographs, drawings and poetry/performance.

The title of the photograph included here is "Exaltation." This is a self-portrait taken in Dingle, Ireland at Gallarus Oratory. Gallarus translates as "place of the stranger."
"O bliss, O world, O music!
And forms, sweat, eyes and long hair
Floating there. And white tears boiling,
-O bliss!-and the feminine voice reaching to the bottom of volcanoes and grottos of the arctic seas." -Rimbaud, from the poem "Illuminations," in Barbarian, translated by Louise Varese, New Directions Publishing Corp. New York 1946, 1957.

Artist statement:

reinvest          reconcile           reunion
rejoice            retreat              retrieve
return             revelation          rescue
rescript           requite              repudiate
requiem
repossess        replenish          receive
rebirth

Contact Madalin c/o Galerie Living Colors, 295 E. Main St. #12, Ashland, OR 97520.

Lorena Gonda writes of her work: "We look into ourselves; we look out at the world. We see simplicity, complexity, beauty and pain. We observe what is old and ancient, and may struggle to see it through eyes of the present. Of importance is to look, with eyes and heart wide open; and to not turn away until we have really seen."

Wys Nelson is a mixed media and collage artist. Born in Dallas, Texas and raised in the Fremont Bay area, Wys has lived in the Rogue Valley in Southern Oregon since the early 1970s. She writes: "My work reflects interests I have in metaphysics, anthropology and dream analogies. Over the years, I've learned to trust my intuition and to honor synchronous events. I feel fortunate to have a creative outlet for exploring inner and outer realms and being able to communicate visually what I have experienced and discovered."

Louise Rothman is a psychologist, photographer and artist.

Suzanna Solomon went to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She has had shows at the Silver Mine Gallery, Silver Mine, NY, New York City, Main Library, and the Artist's Coop, Santa Fe, New Mexico. She writes: "I am gifted with the ability to see, to sense, to feel, and to understand Divine existence. My visionary paintings reveal this spiritual reality. The dots represent Divine molecular energy co-creating purposeful intent. The lines show interdimensional movement of the Divine tangibility that creates emotions, thought, form and actions." For more information, contact Suzanna Solomon at: suzannasolomon@yahoo.com.

Dragomir Vukovic is a photographer living in Ashland, Oregon. He describes his work as: "Born in the nine fire 1955 year trying to transmute the two eye into the one eye vision." Contact Dragomir at 487 1/2 Scenic Drive, Ashland, Oregon, 541-488-3915.

TE ZINS is a Spiritual Counselor & Guide integrating sacred practice into personal and business life. TE is also an artist, facilitator and teacher. He lives in New Mexico. Contact him care of Life Challenges at info@lifechallenges.org.

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