It still feels very surreal, and I can’t believe you have passed on. I keep expecting to see you at events here in town. RIP Tracie Ward. You were an amazing person to know. Your vision, your straightforwardness, and your passion will be missed so much. The effects of your influences on every community you lived in will be felt for many years to come. You were much loved and even more respected in this city than you could ever imagine. My sincere condolences to your family, and all of your friends.
If you have submitted it for acceptance in to a gallery, don’t include it for a submission to a show. If you have submitted it for a show, don’t include it for acceptance in a gallery.
The art world is very different these days, and you have to be much of a business person too, and know what your work is about. You also should know why you are an artist.
But what makes something erotic? Eroticism is only perceived through emotion and imagination. The mystical, the uncanny, the provocative, the forbidden, the hidden.
Mother Earth Banner for Leon Avenue Kelowna BC
As with all my work, I paint first, and think/evaluate later. Mother Earth, with her rainbow dreadlocks, a dress made of landscape, and the source of life running through her hands, she is surrounded by flowers that have dripped from her hair and taken substance where she kneels.
CBC Radio Interview North by Northwest – Italy/Otranto
Kelowna artist Julia Trops is working on a project that will take her to Italy in the early summer as part of a residency program with the Bau Institute, in Otranto, Italy. Interview North by Northwest, CBC.
Vasilisa and her doll: You will never be alone
If an artwork makes you uncomfortable, that is the clue, it is a visual clue that you have business to take care of in your own psyche.
The Child Venus – Giving permission to run
This is part of my project Venus is Rising, which include selected thoughts on acknowledgement and separation from the patriarch, and the emergence of the acceptance of my feminine self:
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