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NEST: FOR YOU THERE IS HEAVENLY BLISS AND SONG #2 2010


Please note:
my work is an experience, that needs an encounter for its truth. It is likened to viewing a photograph of a lover in contrast to reveling in the actual presence of the beloved-a real commUnIcation.

So it is with ALL my work.




The stories of our lives, lived and imagined, becomes our life.

Sincere and simple, suddenly and slowly.




We never know the stories that people live within, until you love them and softly shine love's pure glow toward their heart....slowly, gently as a whisper. In time, as when winter yields to spring, they may let you see them in moments of emotional and honest disclosure when they release the stories of their lives. The faithful stories we tell one another is the sound, the music, the garden, the vast blue sky, the rain, the flight, the candle touch- the quiet, fragrant gardenia bloom.



The stories may be told as a silence, a pause, a furtive smile, a sigh, a hand's caress, a sudden kiss... what is heard, seen, touched and tasted may reveal and then cloak. Perhaps, you can see them before they see themselves. Perhaps, they can see you before you see you. Alternating, improvisational with breath as the rhythm, tenderness as the beacon and the offer of a nest as the welcome home. The conversation of the senses: the giving and receiving is the passionate mad heaven of raw darkness and light elegance. Both are true and necessary for the life of love's arc. Telling the truth deeply- spare and baroque to, for and with another. Not knowing what may open or close, and knowing nothing and knowing everything in each moment of telling the truth. Mystery. Trust. Patience. Freedom. Release. Devotion. Love. Gift.





Sincere and simple, suddenly and slowly.



Catherine L. Johnson





NEST: FOR YOU THERE IS HEAVENLY BLISS AND SONG #2 2010


The stories of our lives becomes our life.

Sincere and simple, suddenly and slowly.


17" H x 13" W

Mixed media on board


A pentimento of graphite, dove blue grey paint and incised lines. The disclosure evolves and awaits.

What the Neurologist Doesn't Say"

http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid=260098


So nice to
speak with you tonight, Catherine...

About
your new pieces, here's what I came away with: there's a haunting
quality to these new works, at once jagged and humane in their
simplicity and rough edges.
I love the raw honesty mixing joy and
despair; it feels truer to the messy entanglements of peaks and
valleys, of both accomplishment and disappointment, than more slickly
polished images could manage. The NEST images, in particular, are visceral, really lovely...

Susannah M. Schouweiler
Editor, mnartists.org and access+ENGAGE

mnartists.org
is a a project of The McKnight Foundation and Walker Art Center

Susannah,
Thank you for your comments on my new series: NEST 2010.
It is uncanny- art critics often use the adjective "haunting" when
grasping for words to describe my work. Haunting adjective
1. remaining in the consciousness; not quickly forgotten: haunting music; haunting memories

In the context of Jeff's poem, "What the Neurologist Doesn't Say", the resonance between the sensate of my art and the matter of his poem is music- and is startling. http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid=260098

Thank you for our conversation earlier.

Yes, it is amazing synergy and fortune that my work, especially, the nascent NEST 2010 exploration was chosen amongst the thousands of images available.

Thank you for your thoughtful comments on all of my work and sending your comments on the NEST series.

It means so much to find a heart that has a tuning fork to my art.
Andthat this happened for me today.

May I place your remarks on the website?

Thank you!
Catherine



From: Susannah Schouweiler
To: catherineljohnson@earthlink.net
Sent: Monday,
March 29, 2010 2:14 PM
Subject: Permission to reproduce one of your
images with a commissioned mnLIT poem on mnartists.org?

Hi Catherine:
...I'm writing to you
today because I'd like your permission to include one of your works, "Nest: There Is More for You #1",2010 (http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?rid=259143)among the five visual artworks chosen to accompany our upcoming mnLIT commissioned poem, "What the Neurologist Doesn't Say" by Jeff Johnson, which will be published later this week....



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