Fernanda Steele

selfportrait

"Sixtyfour years of life are too many to be condensed in a few lines. I often remember St. Thomas of Aquinas' words: "...all I have written seems like straw to me..." And if St. Thomas with all the work and thought he left behind could say this....I am led to the "So what?"... What is important to me?
I live on a most beautiful island of the Sargasso Sea (I was tempted to say Wide Sargasso Sea, quoting Jean Rhys) where the light both urges me on and carries me back to my Mediterranean origins.
I love my husband, my son, my family, my friends and my work.

As an artist I have also come to some conclusions about art which I would like to call My Credo

MY CREDO
(What has not yet come is more precious than what is already born. Teilhard de Chardin)

1. I believe in art as the most intense form of revelation
2. I believe in art as the purest form of communication with the self, the other, and the divine.
3. I believe in art as the deepest well of human emotion, thought, intelligence.
4. I believe in art as the supreme force by which humanity is redeemed from the horrors it can otherwise produce.
5. I believe in art as the most powerful liberator from human shackles.
6. I believe in art as the tangible manifestation of the divine.
7. I believe in art as the supreme conveyor of truth.
8. I believe in art as the highest form of generosity.
9. I believe in art as the highest achievement of human kind.
10. I believe in art as the perfect gift from the divine, to be shared."

Fernanda Steele
dsteele@anngel.com.jm

More works in: http://freepages.arts.rootsweb.com/~fractalis/artists/kod101.html

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