{"id":256,"date":"2008-12-14T04:44:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T08:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/wordpress\/?p=256"},"modified":"2008-12-14T04:44:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T08:44:18","slug":"artists-statement-mandala-in-silver-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/256\/artists-statement-mandala-in-silver-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist&#039;s Statement &#8211; Mandala in Silver &amp; Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mandalainsilverandgold.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nLike any art form, writing reveals new things every time you engage the process. You can use writing to explore dimensions in images that aren&#8217;t immediately obvious.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s an excerpt from the first statement I wrote on Mandala in Silver &amp; Gold. I later wrote a second. I think a third may be useful.<br \/>\n&#8220;Surprises often become the start of something new. I find they contain the seeds for a new series or a new subset of an existing series. A latent theme is suddenly made visible. Rosa Celestia is one of those images for me &#8230;<br \/>\nI\u2019ve come to know more and more about this image the longer I have lived with it. Yet it still remains a mystery. The fact that I can\u2019t explain it, yet it still moves me, tells me the work is alive. I continue to look and be fascinated by it. I see more every time I return to it. It has become a well to draw from.&#8221;<br \/>\nRead two statements on one image <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/lib\/statements\/RosaCelestiaElemential1996.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/lib\/statements\/rosa_celestia.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like any art form, writing reveals new things every time you engage the process. You can use writing to explore dimensions in images that aren&#8217;t immediately obvious. Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the first statement I wrote on Mandala in Silver &amp; Gold. 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