Artist Information:
James Bailey
Reston, VA
United States
Member Since: Aug 2003
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Artist Statement:
Artist Statement - "WIND
PAINTING"
"Wind Painting" is a visual
arts language of expression
that physically collaborates
with nature to reveal the
naturalistic artistic
creativity inherent in random
acts of design caused by
seasonal weather patterns. For
example: the way a mass
snowfall changes the design,
appearance and function of a
street.
In my home state of
Mississippi there is a rural
African-American practice know
as bottle trees. African
slaves brought with them their
traditional beliefs in good
and evil spirits. In the south
their religious practices
developed into the tradition
of placing colorful bottles at
the ends of branches of crepe
myrtles. They believed that
blue and green glass would
lure evil spirits away from
their homes and trap them
inside the bottles. When I was
a child growing up in
Mississippi, my grandfather
and I would visit a elderly
black farmer who lived down
the road from my grandfather’s
farm. He had a huge bottle
tree in his front yard. My
grandfather and I would sit on
this man’s front porch in the
evening and he would tell us
ghost stories. When the wind
blew strongly an eerie
haunting sound whistled
through the bottles of his ...
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James Bailey's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to James Bailey's Portfolio. Browse Bailey's body of work: Artist Statement - "WIND PAINTING"
"Wind Painting" is a visual arts language of expression that physically collaborates with nature to reveal the naturalistic artistic creativity inherent in random acts of design caused by seasonal weather patterns. For example: the way a mass snowfall changes the design, appearance and function of a street.
In my home state of Mississippi there is a rural African-American practice know as bottle trees. African slaves brought with them their traditional beliefs in good and evil spirits. In the south their religious practices developed into the tradition of placing colorful bottles at the ends of branches ... |
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