along one of the moving sidewalks to my frontier flight this xmas were beautiful origami, playing in shadows and light, it inspired me, and i remembered to look up the artist upon returning home. this is what i found...
Artist Statement:
SELF: (Folded paper cranes) Once upon a time, I wrote a novel. I took me eight years and upon completion a New York City Literary Agent asked for a copy. I reread it again, decided it wasn’t good enough and never sent it. In 2006, I started folding the stacks of manuscript pages lying around my house into origami cranes. Fast forward to the summer of 2010 when both my computer and my back up hard drive are stolen and the only finished copy of my novel lives in 10,000 folder paper cranes, the shadow of thousands of hours of work, the history of my creative journey, remnants of a former self.
COMMUNITY: (Glued circles of tempered glass) Everything is made from the same 118 known elements. What if all those elements were once one, just one giant Something. Let’s say That Something was an enormous sheet of glass but it was lonely because It was all that Was. So it shattered, broke into trillions upon billions of little pieces so it could experience itself as infinite possibility; as a solar wind, a ponderosa pine, a human being. And we’re all just jagged pieces of broken glass with our sharp parts that can cut deep, but we can also laugh and love and bump into each other; find the pieces that fit and hold onto those as best as we know how. And with the fault line of experience, something shattered becomes solid again can reflect the gift of light more brilliantly than without, we need contrast to see, a shadow to rise from, we are more beautiful broken.
Brianna Martray is a working artist in the Santa Fe Arts District of Denver, Colorado. She is a painter, sculptor and installation artist. Brianna is fascinated with biomorphic shapes that are repeated throughout the infinite smallness and infinite bigness of the natural world and the cosmos. Within that context, she thinks of herself as a landscape artist exploring new possibilities of surreal and unique flora and fauna.
Brianna was recently interviewed on Denver’s 9NEWS about her installation piece and listed as #15 in 5280 Magazine’s 27 reasons to love Colorado in the summer. Awards: Museum of Fine Art Houston Curatorial Award for Excellence in Sculpture; Cain Park Third Prize; 2009 Best Studio Artist of the Year, Arts District on Santa Fe Drive.
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photo by Adam Halloway on flickr