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Painting, Acrylic on Wood
Size: 45 W x 62 H x 2 D in
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In the Spring of 2022, during a ten day silent meditation retreat, I had visions of places and people I had never seen or experienced. Curious, I began to research where they may have originated. I picked up Joseph Campbell's book, “Hero with a Thousand Faces” and was fascinated with his explanation of archetypes and the collective unconscious as an inherited database. This universal consciousness passes through times and cultures, allowing us to evoke the quality of an archetype we do not know we possess. When reading this, I immediately thought of several life experiences where I had never been called to perform what was required, nor did I think I could pull it off, but I did. It felt empowering to find myself in unfamiliar situations that evoked my higher nature. Learning from this research, I wanted to incorporate these ideas into a new body of work. This series, SIRENS, SAINTS, AND SINNERS, emerged as the outcome. The resulting paintings hold elements of several different archetypes, while the faceless portraits allow room for the audience to see aspects of themselves in new and compelling ways. My inquiry into the hero’s journey will continue as my work and life evolve. But, unlike the classic heroes, my goal is not to save the world but to save myself. I believe if we heal as individuals, we can begin to heal the world. A vital person can energize, strengthen, and heal those around them. We believe we seek meaning in life, but what we actually seek is an experience of being alive. The world, to heal, needs people who feel alive.
Painting:Acrylic on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:45 W x 62 H x 2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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“Silvia Poloto, a talented and prolific Brazilian-born mixed-media artist, self-taught and inner directed, is not a product of America’s art higher-education system, she is an artist committed, almost defiantly, to self-expression and emotion. Poloto, who immigrated to California in the early nineties as a young electrical engineer and discovered her knack for visual communication almost by chance, possesses not only a fearless openness to stimuli and ideas, but also the visual imagination and instincts to refine the daily chaos into an ordered esthetic beauty. Pursuing her art education independently, she picked up metalworking, painting and photographic skills as she needed them —“Nothing could stop me,” she says. She remembers somewhat wryly, however, that after welding metal sculptures out of creative compulsion, she discovered a book on Abstract Expressionist sculptor David Smith, and in it, her unknown artistic ancestors. That slight reinvention of the wheel aside, however, Poloto’s career has been extremely successful. Her sculpture, paintings and assemblages that have been exhibited in United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Egypt, Greece, Bulgaria, Jordan, Romania, China, as well as the United States in Dallas, Portland, Chicago, Park City, Los Angeles, Seattle, Miami, New York City and, of course, San Francisco. Bay Area venues displaying her work include the DeYoung Museum, where she was an artist in residence, the Italian-American Museum, the Triton Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Her work resides in over eighty corporate collections and hundreds of private collections. She has won many prizes and awards and has been featured in many publications.” – DeWitt Cheng, art critic and writer
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