“Art is an orchestra playing colour as concepts swirl, painting an opera.”
Statement
Like a bee staggering out of a peony, artists stagger out of paintings, bewildered, ready to move on to the next. The process is poetic and chaotically ordered, moving along an ancient path.
All of Hashemi’s questions have led to art. On canvas is where she holds her dialogues. For her, art is a philosophy, a reckoning with fate, a way of seeing newness in the old. It is a noble pursuit, an endless quest for beauty, wisdom and truth. Creativity is a journey through time and space, archeological digs into the psyche, where new forms and compositions are invented and reconfigured. It is an orchestra playing colour, as concepts swirl and paintings come together in operatic form.
Ferrari sees art as a playground for the imagination. To her, that means bending time, bending ideas and bending techniques to document, heal, enlighten and inspire. Each piece captures fleeting moments, following the spirit wherever it leads. She sees art as cathartic, meditative, spontaneous and planned, moving toward the future, sinking into the present, rooted in the past. Hashemi’s work leans toward the unknown. There is frustration in the effort, and joy, when something beautiful comes to life. The satisfaction for Ferrari is in grasping at higher ideals, glimpsing realms where masters have resided, teetering at the edges of grace, embodying a conscious state of mind we all recognize, never fully able to describe.
To Hashemi, painting is visual poetry, the way of the brush. It is a way of breathing when time stops. A way to know oneself, to reinvent oneself and to become oneself. It is a feast for the senses, working the freedom of the medium, caressing the liberties of the subject, pushing the boundaries of perception, liberating the soul from the world, reaching the cusp of the ethereal, a life led at the mercy of the sublime.