Lisa Fry Harris ART

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I have always loved art. My first love is painting, but I am fascinated by all forms of artistic expression. My childhood was traumatic and left me with very little self esteem or confidence. During the late 70's, I was entranced by the idea of photo realism before there was a name for it... there was no protocol, and certainly no encouragement. The rest of the class was filling canvases of cerulean blue and cadmium red abstracts while I labored over each individual eyelash on a flesh colored face..... the professors chastised me with "if you WANT a photograph, TAKE a photograph". My art education ended when I became discouraged and I dropped out.
Okay, long story short, life hit me below the belt more times than I care to talk about. I suffer from chronic PTSD, which means not just one major crisis put me here... but many major crisis's back to back. Art may have given me some relief but frankly I needed to have a roof over my head and food in my belly. I was stuck in survival mode emotionally physically and spiritually.
35 years have passed and I have come full circle and am painting once again, this time with some maturity and insight that I didn't have then. Maybe this is some of what the professors were trying to get me to understand; Art is not about painting every eyelash to replicate a photo ... but about sharing a part of yourself artistically expressing a feeling, a thought, without attempts to please others, without the assumptions, without the attitudes ... and retraining the eye not to see just the technical 'details' of life, but seeing what is significant enough to paint. Art, for me, is part of my struggle to examine my own PTSD tainted perception of the world and an attempt to reconcile that with all the contradictory and conflicted information pouring in from this stormy world we live in. It is still very hard to trust as I search for parallels in the separate elements to integrate the trauma and try to make sense of my world and to see beyond what is on the surface. There is a spiritual undercurrent in my life creating a cohesiveness as I move forward to feel my way towards my visual 'poetry.

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[ragdollannie]

Thank you, Rachael... how kind of you! Your amazing videos have really inspired me ... Your art is so wonderful, I am in awe...

[2darbit]

This is beautiful, Lisa. There are many here I have not seen. Really nice video of your work.