Melissa Koch Artist Studio

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

A special kind of project

What makes an artwork of interest to a viewer?

What gives it meaning ?

How do we view the figure in art?

Is there a place for it in contemporary art?

Saturday, January 29, 2011

'All our inner life and intimacy of soul longs to find an outer mirror. It longs for a form in which it can be seen, felt, and touched. The body is the mirror where the secret world of the soul comes to expression.

Your face is the icon of your life. In the human face, a life looks out at the world and also looks in on itself. One of the oldest words for person is the greek word 'prospon'; which originally meant the mask that actors wore. The face always reveals who you are, and what life has done to you.

Traditionally it is said the eyes are the windows of the Soul.

There is a strange symmetry in the way the soul writes the story of its life in the contours of the face.' Anam Cara

Circus circus 2010-2011

'Nothing could diminish the lustre of that extraordinary smile which was engraved on Auguste's sad countenance. In the ring this smile took on the quality of its own, detached, magnified,

expressing the ineffable.

At the foot of the ladder reaching to the moon, Auguste would sit in contemplation, his smile fixed, his thoughts far away. This simulation of ecstasy which he had brought to perfection, always impressed the audience as the summation of the incongruous.

This great favorite had many tricks up his sleeve but this one was inimitable. Never had a buffoon thought to depict the miracle of ascension.'

Henry Miller.