Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Silence Awareness Existence program / FEBRUARY 2022<br />
Lindi Barnard<br />
South Africa<br />
www.instagram.com/linpin17<br />
About<br />
I am an artist/creative living in South Africa with my husband,<br />
two boys and two furry friends. My interest and subject is<br />
nature and the conversation between the ecological and<br />
psychological aspect of the lived human experience. Always<br />
accompanied by music, poetry, spending time with people<br />
and surrounding myself with the natural beauty of the earth.<br />
I believe that art is lived, its not only represented in images<br />
and objects. Creating is a natural way for me to ask and<br />
answer question about my life. Emotional. Intimate.<br />
Homecoming<br />
I once saw a National Geographic clip about a Wood frog in<br />
the Alaskan winter. The Wood frog sits under a heap of leaves.<br />
It is frozen, no breath detectable, no heartbeat, seemingly<br />
dead. But as the warmth of spring arrives, the creature starts<br />
to thaw from the inside out. Its heart starts beating, its brain<br />
lights up and it begins to move. In the fall, the frog’s liver<br />
had pumped a natural antifreeze into its cells which kept its<br />
organs from freezing, only the water surrounding the cells<br />
froze. After being frozen for months, it seeks out the nearest<br />
pond and leaps in, undamaged.<br />
Metaphorically, I was thawing in the middle of the Finnish<br />
winter, and coming home to previously frozen parts of myself<br />
was by no means a comfortable experience. Sometimes it<br />
was accompanied by grief, anger, and frustration, but also<br />
abundant amounts of laughter, connection, grace, and<br />
gratitude.<br />
“It is a journey in which we resist the many distractions that<br />
pull us away from the center with an endless number of things<br />
that quite literally ‘occupy’ us. And it is a journey of prayer<br />
in which we stand in the presence of God with a listening<br />
heart.” - Henri J.M. Nouwen<br />
The <strong>Arteles</strong> residency gave me the space and time to come<br />
home to the self as a creative force, a serene temple, an<br />
intrinsically connected being.<br />
The art that flowed out of this thawing/spiritual homecoming<br />
is the story of my time at <strong>Arteles</strong>.
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