sunny smith
sunny is an artist hanging out in ypsilanti. she'd be pretty excited if you came to say hi to her.
all the images in this blog are owned by sunny unless otherwise noted
Origins & Endings, in front of my space. what a fantastic evening, good show, and i’m so proud to have been in it. <3
What is the process of creation? When did you decide what creation meant to you? What your own creation story is, how you came to be as you are today?
Our journey has taken us through some of the human paths of spirituality, self-knowledge, and self-actualization. We looked at the traditional creation stories which led immediately to delving into a diverse range of creativity.
We were also incredibly inspired by personal thoughts and stories of creation gathered from interviews and crowdsourcing. These images, these concepts, these ideas are what drove us to create the Tree of Knowledge, Concept of Creation, Diagram for Living, Idea Chart, Tree of Life….or was this all here before our inventions?
We’re working to bring some of those stories and thoughts to our audience directly in our installation/performance while also developing a visual environment that we’re hoping will resonate and spark some energy in the realm of self-knowledge and self- creation.
Knowledge comes from within, from curiosity, from discovery. Search the hidden, find yourself, find your world. Find your Self.
MOVEABLE TEXT
Origins & Endings: Experiments in Collaboration
May 11, 2013 JAM HANDY 2900 Grand Blvd Detroit, MI 48202
Doors at 8:00 pm
the show is tonight! i’m so freaking excited, and it all looks so good! $10 at the door, installations, performances, magic, love, joy, and beauty — <3
my show is this saturday in detroit! i’m in the collaboration group “a moveable text”. come check us out, along with the other collaborators! performances, installations, magic all around!
much of my process is finding good spaces to detail, and letting the story tell itself. it’s all a work in progress, isn’t it?
Answer:
Thank you! i feel like in the painting, i’m creating a world, a new universe, and in the detailing, i’m defining those spaces and edges, to allow the viewer to see the world/universe more clearly. :)
Origins & Endings: Meet the participating artists
Ruth Bardenstein (left), Marisa Dluge (center), Sunny Smith (right) are Moveable Text
Gnostic gospels, Nag Hammadi, crowd sourcing, collective memory, creation of self. Their energy darts across the table as quickly as their inspirations. We sat down with Moveable Text in Ypsilanti to catch up about concepts and progress. We were wrapped up in the story and their connection to each other was equally as intoxicating. Moveable Text is approaching this creative process by highlighting the individual strengths of the members. Ruth has been meticulously creating authentic replicas of Nag Hammadi, Marisa has taken an ethnographic approach to generate crowd sourced material for the performance, and Sunny has been painting depictions of creation and the source thereof.
We realize there is no exact formula for successful collaborations, however, we did leave the ladies of Moveable text with a challenge: How can the members push themselves out of their comfort zones? What happens when we hear the voice of the painter and put a paintbrush in the hand of an actor?
We are eager to see how all of this comes together on May 11th.
Origins & Endings: Experiments in Collaboration
Moveable Text
The space between two edges.The realization that everything you assumed up to this point was wrong.
detail of Churning, magical work in progress. :)
another detail of Churning. so excited to keep working on this!
