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barbararachkoscoloreddust
New York Artist Barbara Rachko www.barbararachko.com shares her perspective on pastel painting, photography, and the creative inspiration she finds in pre-Columbian civilizations, mythology, and travel to remote places, like her new favorite destinations, Peru and Bolivia.
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Hi Barbara, OK, so color and soft pastels are your platform, but you’re not doing color fields, ala Rothko. Beyond the basics, what are you expressing? I see dolls, toys, references to death, narratives, in your work, but I don’t want to project onto these elements what they mean to me.
thanks and all the best,
Laurel
Laurel, for many reasons – it’s arrogant, there is no right or wrong answer, to give one interpretation shuts off all the others, my thinking about meanings constantly changes – I don’t answer that question about my work. I actively dislike being told what to think about a piece of art. Each viewer is free to see whatever he or she wants or to have no reaction at all. It’s my job to make the work and set up the experience. I cannot and will not dictate what happens in a viewers head.
Hi – Barbara what wonderful words of inspiration as for my style it’s to stay centered on a project on till it’s completed for more info on me check my website at http://www.peterherley.com till later stay creative no matter what – that my advice for all –