Tara Krause: Primal

Los Angeles artist, Tara Krause, continues my recent project by writing about "primal." As usual, I extend an invitation to all local artists who would like to participate in this effort. Just email me!

Tara Krause: Primal

Presently I am consumed by the quest for, and expression of, the primal.

I seek those images that catch my breath, shattering the icing-glass defenses of media saturated ennui and critical analysis, and in firing my neurons, rock me to my Paleolithic core.

In side wormhole searchings, perhaps it is imbued with some sort of subconscious recognition of – and hunger for – self-organized complexity, that moment when my pigments and media cohere into a cascade of new meaning, recognizable but not rational. Perhaps it is based in some neural law(s). I get lost in trying to explain the self-evidence, immersed mute in the raucous silence, yet dancing the rhythm of my new visual language.

Alive, my imagination sparks, with the songs of the past sung with the rituals of the present to weave the vision and language of the future. I sense the kernel of our humanity and environment in the story space of the universe. And at that moment, the eddies of complexity gift up gliders and persistent structures to lead us to transcendence.

Previous Posts:

Charles Neenan: Tradition
Kelly Towles: Color
Ryan Mulligan: Originality
Matt Hollis: Confinement
Dean Fueroghne: Originality
James W. Bailey: Obligation
J. Coleman: Depiction
Andy Moon Wilson: Decision
Molly Springfield: Language
Bryan Whitson: Scene
Elyse Harrison: Motivation
Jiha Moon Wilson: Influence
Alexandra Silverthorne: Derivative
Jose Ruiz: Contemporary
Kathleen Shafer: Focus
Jennifer McMackon: Connection
Gregg Chadwick: Responsibility
Warren Craghead: Material
Angela Kleis: Purpose
Peter Reginato: Order
Anna L. Conti: Community
Wayne Schoenfeld: Content
Elizabeth Morisette: Naive
Tim Tate: Craft
Jesse Cohen: Hidden
Greg Ferrand: Experience
Joseph Barbaccia: Commitment
Jamie Wimberly: Burden
Christine Tillman: Discovery
Candy Keegan: Personality
Allison B. Miner: Introspection
Jennifer Miller: Fresh
Rosetta DeBerardinis: Fluid
Marsha Stein: Pride