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Artist Statement:
Reiko Michisaki uses to
collage to unravel a mystery.
Using psychotherapy
techniques, such as dream
analysis, she communicates
with alter egos that developed
during her childhood.
Employing images and symbols
as a language, Reiko has
cultivated a relationship with
eight personalities.
Developed over a 17-year
period, she finds that the
personalities readily appear
when she does art. Each
collage tells a piece of a
story, like a chapter in a
book, and the collective
series of collages is a
vibrant and provocative
journal of healing.
Dreams and trances provide the
themes for her art, “Where
dreams reveal that which is
suppressed, my collages are
subliminal dreams”. She
finds using collage work well
to depict the often jumbled
world of dreams. The images
are representational of
emotions and beliefs, and
often appear as recurrent
symbols. A symbol such as the
hand, for example, represents
activity from the primary ego,
water is emotions, and birds
symbolize the multiple
personalities. As metaphors,
the symbols communicate
messages from the psyche, the
forces that influence thoughts
and behavior.
When Reiko creates a collage
she tries to put herself in a
trance-like state, not
consciously selecting images
but allowing the instinctual
choices to emerge. ...
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Artist Reviews:
Piecing it Together
Written by Jonathan Lopez
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Western philosophy dates
Aristotle as the first to
propose the notion of tabula
rasa. The basic idea is that
each person is born as a
“blank slate,” or, in
other words, an empty vessel
into which life pours the ...
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Exhibitions for Reiko Michisaki:
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2009 `Mi Casa, Tu Casa', Pajaro Valley Arts Council Gallery, Watsonville, CA
2009 ‘Assemblage + Collage + Construction’, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
2009 ‘Piecing it Together: Collage as Therapy’, Michaelangelo Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
2009 ‘Student Show, Summer Workshops’, Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA
2008 ‘Student Show, Summer Workshops’, Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA
2008 ‘Earth Expressions’ , Cupertino Civic Center, Cupertino, CA
2008 ‘The Art of Healing’, The Mill Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
2008 ‘Parks and Recreation Class Exhibit’, Louden Nelson Center, Santa Cruz, CA
2008 ‘Fine Arts League of Cupertino Exhibit’,Quinlan Center, Cupertino, CA
2007 ‘The Art of Healing, select pieces. UCSC, Womens Center. Santa Cruz, CA
2006 ‘The Art of Healing, select pieces. UCSC, Womens Center. Santa Cruz, CA
1993 ‘The Art of Survival’, solo exhibit. Santa Cruz Metro Center, Santa Cruz, CA
1993 ‘The Art of Healing’, select pieces. University of California at Santa Cruz, Womens Center. Santa Cruz, CA
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