Description
‘The Illusion of Otherness’ by Jeannie Lynn Paske
Artist: Jeannie Lynn Paske
Title: ‘The Illusion of Otherness’
Medium: Watercolour, pastel, powdered pigment, varnish, graphite and ink on Arches 300 lb. watercolour paper
Dimensions: 10″ x 12″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2019
About the Artwork:
“Society tends to gravitate towards the use of labels and categories to define our multiple differences. Certainly, diversity is a quality to be revered here on earth-perhaps as much if not more than imagination itself. Without it, there is no denying that the world would be a much less interesting place. However, it is often these outward individual differences that cast a shadow upon the many similarities we share with one another. After all, we are each of us composed of the same elements. Every atom in our bodies came from stars that exploded somewhere in the vast expanses of space. The carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and iron were all created in the nuclear furnaces of stars and those stars are blind to our earthly illusion of otherness.” – Jeannie Lynn Paske
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Jeannie Lynn Paske is a self-taught artist from Portland, Oregon who creates introspective work under the name Obsolete World. Using a mix of watercolor, charcoal, pastel, graphite, varnish and ink, she designs richly textured illustrations of peculiar creatures in thought-provoking settings. The mysteries of life, loss and loneliness are reoccurring themes, and her compositions often focus on the strange and unexplained. Many of her pieces reference philosophy with a nod to both the melancholy and humorous. Her soft sparse environments suggest a warm, dreamlike state, and the emotional imagery paired with her poetic titles help to convey a sense of gentle curiosity in her work.