Tracey Clarke
Atlanta,
Georgia
My own journey, both physical and spiritual, along with the accounts of scripture, are primary sources of inspiration for me as an artist. I feel there is much more to be created in a new and powerful way. I want to reveal people as who they are; real people with real struggles and real lives. Pain, disappointment, joy, love and every other human experience can be found everywhere we look in life. These experiences drive me to create. And in these experiences are how God comes to us. I am a traditional realist and mainly work in colored pencil on Canson papers.
Visit Tracey's website at www.traceyclarke.com
Me and Myself
In
the past several years, I have learned what a major role my
childhood has played in who I am today and that truly I am an
adult, as well as that child. I am one person, yet two. Here I am
holding myself as a four year old little girl. Everything is this
work is symbolic of one or the other of these two people. The
cross and blood of Christ here are symbolic of redemption. I find
that this paradoxical truth is most often a painful one in great
need of redemption.
Untitled
This
piece is also about that adult/child paradox present in all of us.
Monster With A Stuffed Bunny
The
people that we find are the worst and most distasteful to us, the
most aggressive and angry are very often the most deeply
sensitive and capable of love. It's the exterior we can't get
past. The monster is symbolic of that person and the stuffed
animal of the real person or the real desire for love and
acceptance.
God/Man
Jesus
was fully God as well as completely human. This is the ultimate
paradox.