![]() That was an idea I kept coming back around to while reading GENUINE FAKES, a collection of essays about fakes, forgeries, counterfeits, replicas, and what it means to be real or authentic. One of my favorite takeaway from those classes, though, was the concept of " qualia," which is the idea that objects have intrinsic qualities that come from subjective experience and can't be explained or faked. Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || Pinterestĭon't tell anyone, but I briefly minored in philosophy before realizing it was a waste of time. Drawing from historical archives, interviews, museum exhibits, science fiction as well as her own research, Pyne brings each genuine fake to life through unexpected and often outrageous stories.Ĭan people move past assuming that a diamond grown in a lab is a fake? What happens when a forged painting or manuscript becomes more valuable than its original? Genuine Fakes will make readers think about all the unreal things that they encounter in their daily lives and why they invoke the reactions-surprise, wonder, understanding or annoyance-that they do. The stories of art forgeries, fake fossils, nature documentaries, synthetic flavors, museum exhibits, Maya codices and Paleolithic replicas shows that genuine fakes are complicated and change over time. In Genuine Fakes, historian Lydia Pyne explores how the authenticity of eight genuine fakes depends on their unique combinations of history, science and culture. ![]() Whether or not we think that those things are authentic is a matter of perspective. Unsurprisingly, the world is full of genuine fakes that defy simple categorization. I presently live in an off grid progressive community on the outskirts of Taos, and that is where I have my studio and retreat community and where I do my own art and teach others as well.Is the distinction between “real” and “fake” as clear-cut as we think?ĭoes an authentic Andy Warhol painting need to be painted by Andy Warhol? Should we be outraged that some of those famous scenes in Blue Planet were filmed in a lab? Who are the scientists putting ever-more improbable flavors in our Jelly Belly beans? Welcome to the world of “genuine fakes”-the curious objects that fall in between things that are real and things that are not. My present goal is to establish myself in Taos, although I have shown and sold my work in galleries and boutiques around the U.S., and have exhibited my revamped slip dresses in many shows displaying recycled materials. “The Brazil Art Assignment” – I give a percentage of my art sales to street children and the care of them in Brazil. “Art 4 Vets: Blueprint 4 Healing” – I do art/art therapy with veterans. I have also started two initiative projects: My art classes and retreats are for vets and civilians as well. In addition to working in the schools, I presently do art therapy and art work with Veterans with an organization “Veterans Off Grid”. I am also a school psychologist and possess an M.A. My dream was to live in Taos as it is an historic art community, and to be connected with other artists who have a passion for living in this wonderful artist community, in the beautiful Sangre De Christo mountains. I was born in Connecticut and as an adult have lived in the west, primarily Colorado, but now more recently in Toas, New Mexico. The dresses are recycled vintage slips made into one of a kind whimsical, innovative, and avant-garde dresses that conjure up each viewer and owner to be encouraged to access their own whimsical self. ![]() I also work with fashion colors and trends, and with personal client’s choices for both the scarves and the dresses. The silk paintings are made from allowing the paint to spread and mix, and my own imagination. ![]() Through my pastel work I seek to prompt, remind and allow the viewer to summarize for themselves and to look deep within to the place of their soul, and their remembrance of another time and space where they too have been. ![]() sleeves, ruffled hemlines, etc., and also place vintage buttons, antique pins, bows, and unusual items onto these revamped fashions. I re-dye the slips and decorate them with my painted silk to make pockets. I also redesign vintage slips and make them into dresses. I paint silk scarves of various types of silk and sizes. My silk painting is from another realm, that of commerce, as I sell to fashionable boutiques. My pastel painting is a form of meditation for me, a progression, process and practice of reaching deep inside to where my soul and vision meets the canvas. Through these processes I consider myself a visionary artist. In my pastel paintings I primarily explore the themes coming from my soul, and imagination dovetailed with ethnic myths, my dreams, my travels and life experience. I am a fine artist who works in several mediums but predominately in pastel and silk painting. ![]()
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