Mariana Paku
@marianapaku
Mariana Paku
@marianapaku
Life forms in branching networks, and we can see those patterns in roots, in watersheds, and in our own nerves and fascia and blood vessels. We are part of nature.
“Materials are never neutral, it's always changing.”
Leveling up to art as play, as a form of ultimate exploration and discovery. The goal is not to prove myself but to explore, to listen and to receive. Art as a devotional practice.
Paracosm
A paracosm is an imaginary world. A world we create beside the real world. Thought generally to originate in childhood.
Sand and Making Art
“I think the origins of his best ideas were formed as he worked in the maquette studio as he took fragments, examples of older work, flints, bones, pieced them together, stuck them together with plasterine, all kinds of materials, waiting for that ideal form to appear.”
The reality of the drawing differs from the reality of the matter: to make is to find my own limitations and play with them.
Rituals are how we remember to practice something with our bodies that is not yet rooted in our minds.