Michele Benzamin-Miki | United States
Michele Benzamin-Miki — Elevation, 2016
Original Drawing

Michele Benzamin-Miki is an artist, meditation teacher, and visual dream journalist whose work emerges from five decades of contemplative practice. Her drawings and paintings explore the liminal territories between dreaming and waking, the unconscious and the conscious, the human and the luminous. Working in pencil, colored pencil, sumi ink, and colored inks, she creates images of extraordinary psychological and spiritual depth — works that function simultaneously as art objects and as records of an inner life of rare richness and discipline.

Elevation is a sumi ink and pencil work on paper, framed, from 2016. The artist writes:

“Before painting, I take a moment to clear my mind of expectation or direction for what comes from my brush, by meditating. I start with brush work, using the principles of ‘Ma,’ in the art of Japanese Calligraphy, considering the empty space around the brush stroke as an important part of the painting, and which creates a meditative space for the observer. I use this space to integrate my female figures, elevating and illuminating them. With ‘Elevation’ I reversed my usual process of painting and then drawing, and took the risk of creating the figure first, and then adding the brushstroke in afterwards to complete it.”

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Details

• Artist: Michele Benzamin-Miki
• Title: Elevation
• Year: 2016
• Medium: Sumi Ink and Pencil on Paper, Framed
• Edition: One of a Kind Original
• Category: Original Drawing | Contemporary Art | Visionary Art
• Certificate of Authenticity: Included
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