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MajioAnimals II: Fox Arms2012
2012
$800
£609.48
€702.75
CA$1,119.58
A$1,250.95
CHF 654.38
MX$15,340.64
NOK 8,361.79
SEK 7,929.20
DKK 5,245.02
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Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weather are very much animated in the minds of the population.
It is ambiguous, who is becoming whom in this image. Somatic sensations of transformation are available for those who are aware. Even in modern day Japan there is an attentiveness for the possibility of a fox’s tail peeking out from the edge of a kimono.
Acrylic paint on small canvas depicts the individual presence of animals, strongly influenced by the enchanted land of New Mexico. Animal iconography is woven deeply throughout three diverse cultures-native, Anglo and Spanish. Majio has for many decades made yearly painting trips and extended retreats to the triangle between Sante Fe, Taos and Abiquiu. Her animal depictions not only reflect stories but are also enhanced by how people there embody the land and wildlife. Her intimate connection to the cultural traditions of the Pueblo Indians, descents from 15th century Spanish and Anglos who offer a rich diversity, if not an uneasy community relationship. The sensitivity to animal and their stories is contagious, even to the many visitors.
Majio has training in the United State, several years in Europe with a Master’s degree from the Buddhist University of Naropa in Creation Spirituality. Her most influential training however was in Japan over a twelve year period. Her initial trip to Japan was to study Buddhist Art, but it quickly narrowed to the traditional arts of Zen and masters if that orientation in other cultural arts. It was not so much what was learned in a papermaking village, kimono dyeing studio or the making, filling and firing woodburning kilns but how to learn or, better said, how to practice. There are many words in Japanese for practice, the one here is the polishing of being. In painting, Majio has always flowed back and forth between figurative and abstract expression. The aesthetics and Cultural Arts--- like calligraphy and tea ceremony---- garnered during her apprenticeships in Japan, along with Zen practices and concepts weave many textures into her work. Majio’s pieces are created with the overarching concept that art is not a polarity between object and subject but rather, complementary, where each part works to define each other. Working from a collaborative process-with materials, with subject and with times, Majio releases herself as sole agent, even when hers are the only hands that touch the piece. This carries out to the viewer, opening a sense of participation, evoking involvement and discussion. Inviting a realization of recognizing and choosing to acknowledge a reality beyond what we have inherited provides a platform for evoking possibilities, innate joy and new vision.
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