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Cultural Exchange

Project type

Cultural Exchange

Date

2023

Location

Katoomba and Dubbo NSW

Cass:
Scrolling my Facey one day and see this artwork by my beautiful friend Helen. It just captured my attention so much. I got goosebumps for some reason, I think it's because the colours make me feel a connection to Country and that the streaks of blue just take it to another place for me. I felt a reaction within myself at a spiritual level. The more I explored it, the stronger it felt. I don't know what it was about this piece to be honest as this style of art is not something I'm generally interested in let alone to appreciate it enough to evoke such a strong response from me. Some time passed and I dropped in to see Helen on one of my trips past her place and she gifted me a package and when I opened it .... boom!! There in all its beauty was the very artwork that I had admired. She felt strongly about my reaction to seeing it and she gifted it to me!!! I was totally blown away. As someone who lives my life based on reciprocal relationships, I then offered Helen a custom artwork in return. She gave me her story and said to me that she would like me to use blues and greens. I've never been limited to 2 base colours before. It took me a while to figure out how to explore these colour ranges but I was loving the new challenge. Today I got to bring her story home to her and her reaction was priceless. It was such a beautiful process to do an art exchange with someone, let alone someone I care about like I care for my beautiful friend Helen. Such a special process with so much mutual love and respect between us.

helgashieldsyartist:
To tell my story to my friend Cass and then for her to interpret it for me visually, has been a powerful experience - unlike any other I have had over the course of my involvement in the visual arts or in fact anywhere. I remain humbled by her generosity and awed by her skill and talent.

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