Karin Blomen, PA, USA
Like you, I have had many lives within the quiet one I live day to day. Some of them happen simultaneously. Writing expresses my worldview, the way I make sense of the swirl around me. Reading and therefore writing involve a linear experience. In contrast, visual art replicates the complex jumble of emotions and images and accommodates them in my perceptual/emotional field. An habitué of thrift stores, a devotee of auctions, as well as a compulsive maker: poems, needlework, cakes, friendships, I relish the idea of creating art by juxtaposing the cherished and valued with that other beautiful—the detritus, the ephemera of ordinary life. My written and visual art hope to invite the viewer, the reader into a dialog with my world.
