On show now
"PAREIDOLIA" by Antonella Cusimano
Exhibition until October 23rd
Click here to participate to a adult colouring session Saturday October 23rd
"Pareidolia 828" ink on paper 65x50 cm "Floating city" Print 58x41cm
Antonella Cusimano
My need for self expression started at the very early age.
Overwhelmed by powerful emotions and searching an answer to the existential question ‘why am I here?’, I unconsciously felt that the only way to be well, was to become one with nature, dissociating from the world and entering a state, that I can now recognise as the so called ‘Flow State’.
I spent lots of time observing the movement and creations of the natural world:
smoke rising, fire dancing, waves, branches intricately embracing each other, clouds interacting with the wind…and the perfect astonishing forms of animals, insect, minerals, shells, flowers….
I always felt mesmerised by this complex simplicity and I presume that in some way I absorbed it. I loved it and I still do.
Feeling a deep need for freedom in my body and mind, the first form of self expression was dance. I danced professionally for many years, but when I got seriously injured, I searched for other means of expression (sculpture, installation, video), but I found that drawing abstractly posing one line after another was the most soothing for my nervous system. I could in fact self regulate my emotional state and find freedom slowly accepting the transition to other artistic media.
Drawing and colouring are now my door to inner peace and freedom of mind.
* My drawings are between me and you (the other). What do you see?
The abstract drawings are based on the concept of Pareidolia, which is the instinct of the human mind to search for forms where apparently there are none.
Our mind is very creative and connected to our unconscious life in a constant exchange between reality and dreams, if we just pay attention.
Have you ever lay down on a meadow gazing to the clouds and see faces, animals or other shapes, surrendering to the present moment and letting your mind wander?
There are shapes that talk to our collective consciousness and subconscious mind.
Rorschach test was invented based on this quality of the human mind.
Archetypal shapes trigger emotions and we are constantly surrounded by logos, signs, symbols, letters…
The apparent chaos of movement in smoke, water, clouds etc. responds to the rules of
self-organising order in Chaos Theory.
Symmetry and Asymmetry trigger our mind in different ways.
Sacred Geometry and Fractals are embedded in the natural world around us, in the vegetables we eat every day and in flowers and plants we have in our homes and gardens.
I deeply wish you to enjoy my drawings as a personal journey in your creative and playful Mind.
“It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of fire, or clouds, or mud or like places in which…you may find really marvellous ideas”
Leonardo Da Vinci
My need for self expression started at the very early age.
Overwhelmed by powerful emotions and searching an answer to the existential question ‘why am I here?’, I unconsciously felt that the only way to be well, was to become one with nature, dissociating from the world and entering a state, that I can now recognise as the so called ‘Flow State’.
I spent lots of time observing the movement and creations of the natural world:
smoke rising, fire dancing, waves, branches intricately embracing each other, clouds interacting with the wind…and the perfect astonishing forms of animals, insect, minerals, shells, flowers….
I always felt mesmerised by this complex simplicity and I presume that in some way I absorbed it. I loved it and I still do.
Feeling a deep need for freedom in my body and mind, the first form of self expression was dance. I danced professionally for many years, but when I got seriously injured, I searched for other means of expression (sculpture, installation, video), but I found that drawing abstractly posing one line after another was the most soothing for my nervous system. I could in fact self regulate my emotional state and find freedom slowly accepting the transition to other artistic media.
Drawing and colouring are now my door to inner peace and freedom of mind.
* My drawings are between me and you (the other). What do you see?
The abstract drawings are based on the concept of Pareidolia, which is the instinct of the human mind to search for forms where apparently there are none.
Our mind is very creative and connected to our unconscious life in a constant exchange between reality and dreams, if we just pay attention.
Have you ever lay down on a meadow gazing to the clouds and see faces, animals or other shapes, surrendering to the present moment and letting your mind wander?
There are shapes that talk to our collective consciousness and subconscious mind.
Rorschach test was invented based on this quality of the human mind.
Archetypal shapes trigger emotions and we are constantly surrounded by logos, signs, symbols, letters…
The apparent chaos of movement in smoke, water, clouds etc. responds to the rules of
self-organising order in Chaos Theory.
Symmetry and Asymmetry trigger our mind in different ways.
Sacred Geometry and Fractals are embedded in the natural world around us, in the vegetables we eat every day and in flowers and plants we have in our homes and gardens.
I deeply wish you to enjoy my drawings as a personal journey in your creative and playful Mind.
“It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of fire, or clouds, or mud or like places in which…you may find really marvellous ideas”
Leonardo Da Vinci