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Wonderment
observations of a curious mind | blog of the artist Victoria Champion
Created on 2006-08-03 22:19:29 (#10830732), last updated 2009-07-08
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| Name: | Victoria Champion |
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| Birthdate: | 11-05 |
| Location: | Texas, United States |
| Website: | victoriachampion.com |
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I'm an emerging artist, working primarily in oil and focusing on fantastical figurative paintings.
Creating artwork is my full-time profession. More than that it is my vocation.
My art speaks of wonderment and the fantastical. My work is an exploration of occult symbolism.
In working with occult symbolism, the intent is to reveal in an artistic language a diagram or blueprint of the pattern that forms the known world and unknown world, and how they are joined together. In this sense, my artwork is almost like architecture and engineering, or scientific jottings. It is research and revelation into the underlying design of the sensory world and what lies beyond it. I can be considered an explorer, artist and a scientist, as I use my art to discover and examine our place in the physical world as spiritual beings and the nature of metaphysics.
It is also meant to provoke spiritual questions about what are real encounters with the supernatural, and what is imagination. All the elements are woven together in a tapestry that reveals to us that if someone sees a scene in a composition of art that touches them psycho-spiritually and causes them to evolve, that it is as real as any mundane experience. And that gives the paintings life. So the viewer in turn becomes as much a creator as the artist.
Most of my artwork portrays the female as divine, powerful, and magical. References to different Goddess archetypes, elements of witchcraft, occultism, paganism, spirituality, Santería imagery, and stylized Catholic Saint iconography, as well as female power and emotion make an appearance. The intent is to show the aspects of the witch, the seeker, and the magical in every woman, and to illustrate the inherent power of the creatrix.
There is a hidden layer to the world, a mystical layer. It is less obscure to some, but remains unknown to most. The mystical world permeates everything, and gives wonder and mystery to life. I attempt to show some of the beauty and awe of that realm in my art, to let the world see what I sense.
I consider myself a mystical realist, and my art as mystical realism.
I use the phrase "mystical realist" to describe my world-view that colors my art-making, in place of a belief system or religion, and the phrase "mystical realism" to describe my art. I chose not to use the standard phrase "magical realism" as much art described as such is filled with elements of fantasy, and I perceive the mystical to be an aspect of reality. There are others, including a few artists, in the world using these two phrases, but in my case, they mean specifically the mystical world in relation to reality, and in relation to my art.
Thanks for having a look at my art!
Fair Use / Copyright Notice All artwork and writings by Victoria Champion in this site/blog are licensed under a ![]() Creative Commons License. If you wish to display the works online, you may at a resolution of no more than 72dpi and 500 pixels on its longest side, in jpeg format only, for reference purposes for discussing this artist only. You must attribute the work by linking the image to "http://victoriachampion.com" or "http://v-champion.livejournal.com" and giving the full name of this artist, Victoria Champion, as the sole creator of the works. Anyone who attempts to modify and/or rip or steal the work and claim it as their own will be prosecuted legally and a big nasty curse will befall them. Beyond this fair use all artwork and writings by Victoria Champion are © as All Rights Reserved. |
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