{"id":2023,"date":"2020-08-30T15:08:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T19:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2025-03-16T18:24:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T22:24:34","slug":"i-collect-round-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/i-collect-round-things\/","title":{"rendered":"I Collect Round Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the 1970\u2019s I\u2019ve been a collector, an observer and a thinker about round things. Currently, my garden is enhanced by round thing presences. Spheres of all colors and sizes. Sculpture with round themes. Round trellises. Round gateways.<\/p>\n

\"Woodland<\/a>

This moon gate entry to my woodland walkways is just one of the pieces throughout my garden which inspires my art.
These themes of roundness have threaded throughout my work for decades. Recent Work<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

On my deck are round finials on the tops of the banisters. And large round concrete containers spewing forth their colorful floral additions all summer.<\/p>\n

I have reflective spheres so as you walk around the circular pathways in my garden you see yourself in a distorted and accentuated way. It\u2019s good to see yourself when you least expect it. Then your mind views you more clearly. It sees how others may see you.<\/p>\n

Why round things you ask? They are the feminine. The woman. The beginning. The Eve.<\/p>\n

They are the mystery. No beginning and no end. The continuum.<\/p>\n

Eve\u2019s apple is the first sphere. It represents to me the essence of woman, the feeding, the nurturing, the sexuality, the sensuousness, the rounded birth belly.<\/p>\n

With the apple Eve burst forth from the confinement of the \u201cGarden of Eden\u201d. The place made for her. To protect her but also to isolate her from life. The experiences. The experimentation. The adventure.<\/p>\n

She broke free by pushing the boundaries. By saying that the world created for her was not enough. She found her way to burst forth and experience life. The sadness, the pain, the anguish, the tears, the disappointments, dashed dreams, hopes denied, the loss of loved ones, the curse of immortality.<\/p>\n

Without which true happiness, peace and contentment could not be embraced.<\/p>\n

My art is embedded with these meditations on life.<\/p>\n

\"Omni<\/a>

The OMNI Gallery show featured my round flower inspired oil paintings. This work is embedded with meditations.<\/p><\/div>\n

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