About Amanta • Artistic Statement
| My work is about connecting: communicating how something makes you feel and where that feeling takes you. I aim to pose questions; stimulate discussion; generate a feeling of connectedness with people; cultivate understanding and respect for our different perspectives; trigger the unconscious mind and spark a numinous experience: an ‘a-hah!’ moment or a deep reflective state in which new insights emerge catapulting the viewer into a new level of awareness or understanding. I strive to communicate the deep impulses of artistic intent through line, shape, sound and movement. I use found resources to create symbolic works that speak directly to the deeper aspects of the human psyche. My ‘found resources’ may be material objects, images, sounds, people, words, ideas and/or actions. Through Syncretic Art (the fusion of disparate elements) I fuel the vital spark that bonds, connecting people in a transcendent artistic experience. Action paintings brought gesture and process into art; Installation/ environmental art embraces the viewer’s entire sensory experience; Syncretic Art fuses all disciplines to bring about a numinous holistic art experience. Grounded in the encounter and in the role it plays as a civilizing force within society, Syncretic Art is a vehicle through which individuals may develop a deeper consciousness of themselves and the world in which they live. |
| Commencing a project without preconceptions as to end result is key to my artistic process. I thrive on the element of chance; the challenge of the unknown: creating art from any of the diverse resources available to me, through sculpture, painting, video, sound installation, performance, voice, percussion, piano, dance and/or theatre. |
| A global citizen, with bloodlines from across the planet, which I've traversed several times, I draw from world religions, philosophy and mythology: exploring images resonating across world cultures. My grandfather, composer/author Cyril Scott, advocated “unity in diversity”: a concept core to my philosophy. |
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In 1996, in Tokyo, reacting against the discipline-based isolation of the arts in western cultures, and in conversation with Peter Oldham (then Political Consul, Canadian Embassy in Tokyo), I coined the term “Syncretic Art”. ”Syncretism” is the fusion of disparate elements. “Syncretic Art” is the combination of some or any of: visual arts: sculpture, painting, multi-media, sound sculpture, surround-sound audio, video; music: voice, piano and percussion; performance: theatre and movement; mythology; environment and contemporary archaeology. As such, the term “Syncretic Art”, albeit unfamiliar, most effectively summarizes all elements of my work. |
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