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This Is God: Moments of Beauty |
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Artist Statement: Spirituality most often reveals itself to me through creative process or my experience of nature. This proved to be true as I began the challenge of communicating through this new form of artistic expression. I've never done much in the way of video editing. I have a simple app I've used. It allows me to do basic things like crop a video or add some sound: no transparencies, fading, layering, etc. It was very challenging to have a vision and discover that I didn't have the tools or knowledge to make it come together quite the way I imagined it. But then, I'd play around, or get an inspiration, and make a discovery that said it better than I intended. I had a collection of video and still images that were inherently spiritual for me: things that pointed me to God and Jesus with simplicity and beauty. I set out to weave this "collection" together- starting with the images and video and then adding the audio once I identified my theme. Shotcut was an adventure in what's actually possible for giving my "collection" a voice. The most magical part was when I layered the audio track to the menagerie of videos and stills. I was surprised that, somehow, I did manage to pull it all together in a way that made sense for me. It said something I had previously been unable to articulate. When I started layering other sounds with the audio track (the sounds of the birds, the wind, and other creatures), my theme became even clearer. I've replayed the video several times, and I find it centers me more and more with each viewing. Yes, for me, "This is God." How rich it is to have new ways to say this and reexperience this. Bio: Alisa E. Clark is an avid acrylic painter, collage artist, assemblage sculptor, and educator who enthusiastically explores ways to share her creative process while encouraging others to join her in the process of art making. Alisa communicates the transformative power of art through words and images and believes in releasing the spiritual power of painting to others. From within the creative flow, in-between moments are captured with a paintbrush and the artist's voice. A better understanding of our "In-Betweens," and ways art can give us hope no matter how hard our present places may seem, waits inside Alisa's paintings. Her liminal creations invite people on little adventures through time and space: fantastical journeys with the power to bring interconnectedness, possibility, and a splash of imagination to the present moment. |
