Musical Art Project

 

 

"Adagio"

Violin

 

Sariah Daine

sariahdaine@yahoo.com

All of my life, people near and dear to me have said I was sure to be an artist. They said I had the mind, temperament and hands for it.

Well......The Flying Nun and Combat were the TV Shows of Choice in my house, so I wanted to be a nun or a combat marine. There was a bit of trouble with those childhood dreams, as I was neither Catholic or male! As I became a young lady, I danced, acted, sang, debated and became an activist.

The visual arts seemed so out of my reach, as all three times I took drawing I found I had no eye whatsoever for seeing two dimensionally. I gave up.

When I turned forty, I went to California and met Jon Serl,an artist in his 90 's. His bantam hens laid eggs on his dresser; his home was a maze of rooms added onto one another; his studio was full of paintings I could identify with! I learned that Jon was a self-taught, outsider artist. He enjoyed notoriety and money from his art.......even on the Johnny Carson show twice! Right there, in his studio, my heart seemed to burst open and this feeling of warmth encased me. I felt home.....an artist. I still can 't draw, but so love making three dimensional things. I started out making wall hangings and embellished wooden boxes and leather dolls. Everything I made sold! Soon, I quit work, moved to Wisconsin and made and sold sculpture.

I 've taken a few art classes but never pursued a degree in it. I used to sell in Bayfield, Cambridge and Chicago area galleries. Currently, my passion is in "statement art". I like to use art to express things that i have no words for.....big feelings and thoughts, beyond the confinement of the spoken word. I'll leave that to the gifted orator. I am so honored  to create a piece of art to benefit the Wausau conservatory of music. What a grand idea for a fund raiser!

I love, and often incorporate copper into my work. Like music, it matures with exposure, changes its affect. The Conservatory has, again and again, on and on, exposed the student and stimulated change that is truly altering, changes the musician and all exposed to their music. Exposure changes. Well done--and--cha cha cha!