Opening this Thursday (November 22, 2012) at 7 pm is an exhibition entitled, “Let’s Begin.” This group art show will take place at the Bleeding Heart Art Space (Located behind Carrot Café on 117 Ave and 93 Street, Edmonton.)

“Let’s Begin” is an art show exploring beginnings, endings and Christmas.

I have two sculptures showing at “Let’s Begin” so come out and join me at the opening to celebrate this new exhibition!

THOUGHT AS STRUCTURE
“Like energy, some in resonance, others in dissonance, our thoughts bridge and multiply, bringing into our hearts that which we have sewn as a seed, that which will grow into a convoluted, awkward yet beautiful structure of either hope or fear.”
– Alexis Marie Chute

More about the theme of the show:

“Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.”

~ Stephen Fry

In the original Christmas story, a baby is born. People move from one location to another. Angels announce and prophets proclaim promises. Stars align. The show is about to begin.

Our own Christmas stories often feature endings. A year closes. A feast has been served and gifts have been unwrapped. Perhaps relationships unravel and high expectations shrivel like overcooked turkey. Christmas doesn’t always play out with fulfilled angelic promise. Sometimes it’s only promise is stress, and we can’t wait to get it out of the way, so that we can begin.

Bleeding Heart Art Space invited artists to wrestle with these tensions between beginnings, endings and new beginnings. What relevance does a baby, ‘away in a manger’ have for our own fresh starts today? What would you begin, if you could, this Christmas?  Let’s begin.

Visit the gallery website: http://www.bleedingheartspace.ca

THE QUIET REBUILD
“When death comes and takes, it changes us who live. When we see this life as it is, the impermanence of all we hold dear and yet our ability to continue on, to love and value what truly matters, then we rebuild our soul with these lessons, changed yet whole.”
– Alexis Marie Chute

My work speaks to the idea of “beginnings, endings and new beginnings.” A seed begins a tree, a fire reduces a forest to ash and then the smallest of seeds can lead the wasteland into a new season of rebirth. I use this imagery symbolically with our human journey; we grow and face trials only to be devastated and needing to rebuild our lives, our hopes, our faith.