Reality is a Miracle Elisabeth van Roosendael
Contents Introduction 1.) Cosmic Tide 2.) Underlying Miracle 3.) Sea Miracle 4.) Reality Jungle 5.) Visceral Reality 6.) Reality Process 7.) Analogue Miracle 8.) Sky Miracle 9.) Culture Miracle 10.) Cosmic Ecology Contact Information Reality is a Miracle
Elisabeth van Roosendael
Introduction The collection of artworks that create Reality is a Miracle seek to unveil the embedded grace within the world we live in. To begin the process of unveiling, various meditations on the metaphysical weaving of societies cultural fabric were undertaken. On this path, questions of our interaction of what we can and cannot live without were explored. New and recycled materials were utilised to help find a connection between what we envision for our lives and the impact we actually end up producing. The technique of painting to express these explorations took an inch of inspiration from the processes within the natural environment, and ran a cosmic mile. As a result diverse digressions and progressions towards a sense of harmony are left blurred. However, harmonised natural textures and forms suggest that a way of finding a graceful connection with our reality can occur through a perspective of gratitude. For as the shapes within the paintings reach out, they in turn receive an echoed organic response. This sense of grace being a subjective essence that is created through living rather than derived from objective material inquiry, is perhaps unveiling of the underlying tide of mystery that pervades the metaphysical landscape of humanity. Social narratives from Christian Biblical stories of miracles, such as Moses and the parting of the Red Sea, to hidden dimensions postulated by String Theory within science are in this collection of works to highlight the questions left unanswered by a mechanistic mindset. Delving into such rich cultural narratives generated more than complex compositions of intertwined yet balanced energy. The earthly textures sculpted by ethereal forms that informed this balance also created a greater reverence for the inherent mystery of grace within reality. For if only through cultural movement as embodied in the social narratives explored can grace be experienced, is its existence conditional to our being or is our reality reliant upon such a miraculous essence?
Reality is a Miracle
Elisabeth van Roosendael
1.) Cosmic Tide acrylic media on board 120 x 90 cm $1,900
A washed in a sense of divine mystery, the beginning of this work found itself in clay like form. Plaster and acrylic paint were mixed and worked as if tides of energy were seeking an eternal cycle. Alas, eternity within the finite at least found a sense of transcendence once textures were solidified. The final feathering of the clay like base were met with coloured painterly meditations. Clashes of contrasting colour and tone take the sense of the tide in a cosmic sense of scale. The earthly tides create forms reminiscent of the nightly skies beyond. However, it’s usually many eons of greater gravitational pulls that enable the cosmos to evoke truly complex expressions of weathered forms that evoke a sense of eternal grace.
Reality is a Miracle
Elisabeth van Roosendael
2.) Underlying Miracle mixed acrylic media on board 120 x 90 cm $2,200
Mind over matter, or matter over mind? The idea as to where the power of consciousness lies within the human existence is questioned within this work.
The clay like beginnings of paint and plaster that are worked until a textured surface is sculpted hint at the embodiment of strength within the form. Washed expressions of colour tend to dissolve and only occasionally highlight this inherent capacity for underlying transcendence. Acute angled perspectives of the surface reveal the infinite sense of texture in the work. This overarching potential for grace as embodied through complex texture is suggestive of an untapped awareness of an inherent capacity for miraculous change within the day to day living.
Reality is a Miracle
Elisabeth van Roosendael
3.) Sea Miracle
mixed acrylic media on board 250 x 120 cm $13,900
How could such a miracle like the parting of the Red Sea, as told through the Christian Biblical story of Moses and his Journey with Gods people actually occur? Would it be a freak low tide that just happened to occur at the same time of need? Coincidence? Divine coincidence? Or Divine intervention? The possibility of Divine intervention was a journey of 5 years of experimentation and contemplation that helped arrive at a base construct of symbolic cosmic composition for this painting. A further two years of continued revisitation and layers of reworking, eventually unveiled a sense of plausible miracle for such a story of grace within reality. That being said, the undeniable complexity still testifies to the inherent mystery behind the grace that created the Sea Miracle.
Reality is a Miracle
Elisabeth van Roosendael
Reality is a Miracle
Elisabeth van Roosendael
4.) Reality Jungle
mixed acrylic media on board 120 x 90 cm $2,100
Calling upon the processes within the natural environment as inspiration for the exploration into the harmony within the mundane resulted in many aesthetic mazes. This particular work is imbued with a sense of an overgrown ecology of grace. It suggests that at times we experience so much abundance that there lies little room for contrast within this jungle of opportunity.
In reality, such examples of undervaluing what is naturally of great value within our environment highlights what can proceed if we don’t intervene to create contrast in such environments. Furthermore, if we envision a world of abundance but fail to see that this already exists then we undermine the capacity to uphold such hopes. The moments if heartfelt colourful contrasting moments suggest that such efforts need to be curated to create the difference in perspective to generate desirable value within the Reality Jungle.
Reality is a Miracle
Elisabeth van Roosendael
5.) Visceral Reality
mixed acrylic media on board 120 x 90 cm $1,700
To embody the visceral sense of discovery that is experienced in the quest for the source of grace within the metaphysical landscape, layers of faint paint were scaped and built up in the final skin layer of this work. There is a visceral sense of mystery is suspended in this translucent layer. For it blurs the underlying layers of bold expression, and diffuses their trajectory to inject a diffusion of perspective. Are we drifting towards or away from an envisioned sense of grace?
Once we drift into a sense of external dialogue is this modality still an attribute to the mundane sense of grace? Or is the external diffused tonality hinting of a digital disruption of the experience of harmony within day to day living?
Reality is a Miracle
Elisabeth van Roosendael
6.) Reality Process
mixed acrylic media on board 120 x 90 cm $1,600
Complimentary or contradictory? The process of what creates a strength of character or integrity within an engineered structure never occurs with only parallel expressions of energy. Thus what can be said of grace in reality? Is it ever an intervention of comfort or is it an experience of contrast to generate a fortified sense of reality? Can the jungle of confusion ever be clarified? This work was finished through exploring such a question. In the process of scraping back a layer of coloured impasto, the painting revealed that a complex contrasting network of contrasting expressions was being composed. Its final harmonic form radiates a sense of balanced components. It appears that the process for this painting, which is inspired by dramatic weather events that challenge an environment, could perhaps be the catalyst for revealing the imbedded grace within reality.
Reality is a Miracle
Elisabeth van Roosendael
7.) Analogue Miracle mixed acrylic media on board 120 x 90 cm $2,200
The fortune of grace appears to unfold through weathered movement in this work. The scale and nature of this form is left to a sense of mystery. However, the intent to tease out the tension of the day to day residue of reality being soothed by an ingrained sense of grace seeks to make itself well known. Within this Analogue Miracle, the fluid form of harmonic balance is fleshed out to find a radiant form of renewal. Complexities arise when continuity of form finds itself at the extremities of its massed sense of boundary. The organic diffusion of form that occurs at this boundaries enable the flowing form to transcend and find connection beyond the perceived sense of amassed potential within it’s own clear identity.
Reality is a Miracle
Elisabeth van Roosendael
8.) Sky Miracle
mixed acrylic media on board 120 x 90 cm $2,900
How do you envision what is needed when the need is unknown? Sky Miracle senses what is unseen, and gracefully enquires into a state of being that insights desirable action for harmonic balance. For between being and becoming the necessities of what needs to be seems to naturally quite often find itself ingrained in reality. How does this unseen reality occur? Is it an ingrained sense of grace within reality that fuels this ether of social alterity? What can be plausibly stated is that no matter what the unseen vessel for harmony is apart of the grace of the evolving state of reality.
Reality is a Miracle
Elisabeth van Roosendael
Reality is a Miracle
Elisabeth van Roosendael
9.) Culture Miracle mixed acrylic media on board 120 x 90 cm $2,100
Instant culture, can it ever truly be? Is culture not an existential continuum filled with many twists and turns? Perhaps at times these sharp changes bleed into a pool of the worlds consciousness to create a dramatic alteration to the fabric of society. Such changes are not found anew in the digitally technological age. However, the capacity for a truly desirable shift into a new way of desirably being is suggested in this work of being sustained within the individuals perception of reality. For the surface blurring could either be taken as s clearing of perception or as an external diffusion of clarity. The underlying lines suggest that the existential sense of miracle through social change is sustained within connectivity of insight.
Reality is a Miracle
Elisabeth van Roosendael
10.) Cosmic Ecology mixed acrylic media on board 120 x 90 cm $1,700
If we are pulled by the planetary forces beyond, are our efforts to sustain our environment a cause that connects to a reality beyond this earthly domain? The sense that we are made of star dust in the form of ancient carbon, imbues also a personal perspective that the quest to connect a vision for a just future with the world around creates a Cosmic Ecology. The flowing radiant forms in this composition place the macro and micro scales of reality in an intertwined state. This is done to bring focus upon the personal role that is capable of generating ecological influence on a cosmic scale. It suggests that restrictions of fulfilling what’s envisioned through what is personally valued is perhaps only limited by limiting beliefs. Thus the spirit of the work evokes the miraculous nature of reality. It endeavours to connect us to a cosmic scale of fulfillment within our envisioned destiny. The visceral micro textures seek to create a magnetic sense of inspiration to propel us into a state of being within our lives for what we envision for the world.
Reality is a Miracle
Elisabeth van Roosendael
Contact Information If you are interested in any of the works on display in this exhibition feel free to contact myself, Elisabeth van Roosendael, the artist. Also, if you like the creativity on show but aren’t quite connecting with any of the specific works and would like to see more, you’re more than welcome to reach out and make such requests. I’m currently in the phase of cataloguing my works from the last 10 years for my website. So I’m happy to send more information on other various works in that regards. Furthermore, I’m also happy to help provide an additional service to help visualise the works you're interested in for the spaces you'd like them to feel at home within through digital renders. So feel free to send an email to enquire about your interests in the art on show. I look forward to hearing from you.
elisabethvanroosendael@gmail.com Reality is a Miracle
Elisabeth van Roosendael
Thank you for attending!
This exhibition acknowledges the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, whose land these artworks have been created upon and shared with through this exhibition.
Reality is a Miracle
Elisabeth van Roosendael