Michele Peterson
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    • Paintings (Figurative/Dress)
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    • Drawing
    • Photography (Clothing)
    • Photography (Misc.)
  • Statement
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  • Blog
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  • Interviews/Press Releases
The images in my Art are ones that choose me.  They haunt me until I give them a place to reside.
 
There’s a definite formal component to the work.  I work out size relationship, inclusion of patterns, compositional structure.  This process is very important and helps to ground the images in a way that becomes almost sculptural. 
 
Once started in the studio, the work consumes me.  It is problem solving in the most concrete manner.  While important to work from the sketches, I allow for changes. Trust in the process is paramount.
 
I believe in Art & Beauty.  Both are necessary to live a fully present life and make the world a better place. 
 
Two quotes inspire me on the nature of beauty: 
 
     “Is the beauty of the world less important because of the moral horrors of society?”
                    From art critic Donald Kuspit: 
 
     “Beauty will save the world.”
                  From Dostoevsky’s novel “The Idiot”:
 









 

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