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“Alerting the senses through creating, is an opportunity to ground in the present moment. Observing with the senses provides a place to simply be, to breathe, to feel, to find rest in the now. It is a means to communicate, with the is-ness of being, with being in presence. The art process is a dialogue, a dance of energy and matter, guided by intuitive, intentional and informed gesture. The artworks created become their own entities, embodying the knowledge of their own material, the experience which shaped them, was learned during and through the artworks process, to continue to exchange, gather and transform information in the encounter with me, you, and the environment. The act of creating is the art and, the art process, the artwork, is the vehicle to the awareness emanating from the communion with art.”

Carolin Rechberg, is an interdisciplinary artist, born in 1988 in Starnberg, Germany. She places value in the multi-sensory experience and understanding brought forth in the process of creating. Carolin offers unique artworks for sale and designs individualized commissions of art, for commercial, private or public space.

After completing her primary education with focus in Art and Design at the Munich International School (IB), she received her formal training in Fine Art from the California College of the Arts (BFA), from the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA), and in Art and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University (EdM). As a Teaching Assistant Carolin instructed Drawing and Painting, at the San Francisco Art Institute, and Etching, Lithography, Relief printing and Silkscreen, at TC, Columbia University. At Teachers College (TC) she also managed the printmaking studios and facilitated all printmaking courses.

Carolin Rechberg has exhibited in Solo and Group Exhibitions, in America, Asia and Europe. She has received awards, multiple residencies and has been published in international art publications. Recently she returned to Europe to establish an art studio close to Murnau am Staffelsee in Bavaria.

To see more work visit carolinrechberg.com

or contact directly via carolins.studio@gmail.com

Artworks from top to bottom clockwise; Origin, Finding Stillness in the Inner Chaos, Contemplation Stone XX, Witness, Place of Becoming and Composing Monuments for the Stage of Performance.

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State of Being

Drawing 27th January 2023

Ballpoint Pen on Lokta Paper

12 x 12 in

This is an ongoing body of work I call 'States of Being'.

It must be more then a decade since I have started this work. I will have to find the first drawing I ever called states of Being and shared it. But I realized over time that every elaborate or quick sketch, whether on a napkin from a restaurant or such as in this case on beautiful paper from the Lokta bush of the Himalayan Mountains, would reflect the state of my being. In the the perspective, the dimensionality, the structure of the ever emerging formations of rocks, rivers, mountains and elements of the sky, taking up different shapes and forms, points of view, for me signifying a state of my soul, my mood, my emotions, my mind.

While each image is imagined it also informs of my devotion to Nature and my continuous study of it. The source of energy and nurture for all of our existence. Pacha Mama, Mother Earth.

I personally also feel an affinity to water. the different States through which it travels and the information it gathers on its way. Cycling through life, like we do ourselves, with time over space, carrying more and more experiences, encounters with landscapes it passes, ecologies through which and within it travels, to transform again and again through different states.

From Rain or mountain springs, like veins nurturing underground pathways, creeks, filling gushing streams, meandering rivers, to gather in the beds of the earth, the oceans, to through wind and sun, travel in rippling or roaring waves to different shores, evaporating under the warming rays into the sky again, to bathe nature into new life, with its showers of information, awakening or maintaining the cycle of living.

We ourselves cycle through stages of our lives in different states. States of Being has become for me a discovery of how imagery reflects the state of my spirit. Narrow gorges, seemingly endless rapids, give way to wider canyons, distant rock formations, and meandering peaceful waterfalls. Beyond the composition, the demeanor of the drawing tool used, and resulting mark making speak to the tranquility, restlessness or unease I might have felt during the period in which the drawing was created.

But as always the act of creating, giving myself the permission to just be, to breathe, not focused on knowing but just arriving in the moment, to see and trust the image to emerge over time. Sometime these drawings also emerge to pass time, but they foster an inner peace, a calmer presence and larger perspective of life within me. Initially art making is a way of coming to terms with simply feeling and observing.

It is a dance of allowing the work to create itself...

Emoting, speaking out from within when creating.

The art process is a ritual, a celebration of life, of presence, of nature.

It is a means to arrive in the moment and communicate with the is-ness of being.

The art process and it's resulting materialized natural and composed marks of presence, reflecting and responding to the evolution of gathered experiences.

Art is a meditation on and off being.

The senses become a portal to ground in the present moment.

Raising one’s conscience, through sensual perception and feeling.

The gesture and observations of color, composition, pattern, rhythm, structure, texture and tone, and ensuing realizations nurturing an approach to existence, I harness to transfer into living.

It is a dance of allowing the work to create itself, and to simply become the guiding vehicle.

Unique in themselves, the artworks become their own entities, signifying information, calling for an individual aesthetic encounter with the environment.

Contemplation Stone XXIV, Carolin Rechberg 2021