Materials: copper, silver, bone and bronze
Dimensions: 8" x 6"
copper and silver reliquary container.
Photo credit: Rob Glover
Charlette Rose
Lubbock, TX. USA
As an artist, I have always been influenced by nature. The incredible range of design, color and texture fascinate me. As a child, I roamed freely through the woods, rivers, swamps and seashore, meeting kindred spirits in the flora, fauna and even the stones. I found joy in isolated places. My childhood was dominated by beauty, death, and religion. Ritual and solitude granted me the means to seek understanding of all the loss I experienced. As an adult, art allows me to express that understanding.
Death and art are intimate experiences. I feel intense joy in living, yet I am filled with grief. The extinction of a species, whose joy in living is surely as intense as my own, perhaps the death of my own species, and even of the earth where I live, all color my artist's being and inspire my work. Creating, the sheer act of making, allows me to find my balance in joy and death. It is how I honor the dead. It is how I honor life.
Materials: copper, silver, bone and bronze
Dimensions: 8" x 6"
copper and silver reliquary container.
Photo credit: Rob Glover
Charlette Rose
Lubbock, TX. USA
As an artist, I have always been influenced by nature. The incredible range of design, color and texture fascinate me. As a child, I roamed freely through the woods, rivers, swamps and seashore, meeting kindred spirits in the flora, fauna and even the stones. I found joy in isolated places. My childhood was dominated by beauty, death, and religion. Ritual and solitude granted me the means to seek understanding of all the loss I experienced. As an adult, art allows me to express that understanding.
Death and art are intimate experiences. I feel intense joy in living, yet I am filled with grief. The extinction of a species, whose joy in living is surely as intense as my own, perhaps the death of my own species, and even of the earth where I live, all color my artist's being and inspire my work. Creating, the sheer act of making, allows me to find my balance in joy and death. It is how I honor the dead. It is how I honor life.