Marguerite
P. Bierman
Throughout
my life, I have been drawn to
color as revealed by light. I especially
become excited and anticipatory of the
furtive titillating display of rainbows,
aureoles, and tangential arcs. I
experience
a type of serenity matched at times by
the expansive grandeur of a natural
panorama viewed from a mountain
top,
or from the edge of a
high cliff. I love to
come face to face with
special optical
experiences that demand
greater visual
acuity, realizing that
the impact can be
dissected and analyzed,
but can really be
more satisfying to my
total being if I just
allow it to be a
gestalt experience. I have
collected objects that
have become
precious to me as they
bring to my
remembrance these
special observations
and experiences.
Colored glass in its many
forms brings delight as
light travels through
it or bounces off it
giving varying visual
experiences. Precious
gemstones that
concentrate a myriad of
colors that seem
to move have a special
attraction that
energizes that feeling
of excitement and
delight. The
juxtaposition of colors
revealed in a slab of
marble became a
touchstone to another
world of joy.
As I developed and
matured, I became
aware that my
sensibilities paralleled the
artists of the past who
too were moved
by colors and their
equivalent feelings, to
create something that
moved me through
their art even though
they had long been
silent in the earth. I
became fascinated
with all aspects of
art: its creation, culture,
craft, and history. As
a child of a career
military family, I
remember early images
of our years in Italy,
so impressed by the
beauty captured in
their daily life.
Everywhere
there were objects, surfaces,
and structures that deeply affected me.
Later as a young artist
beginning to learn to imitate marble
through painting, I realized several thousand years before
unnamed artists had
created faux marble in their fresco
wainscotings in
Pompeii. It was a great revelation to me
at the time that I was
part of great tradition of craft and
sensibility and piqued
my curiosity to learn more.
In addition I came to
realize that architects and
itinerant builders,
through their placement of spatial
volumes and sculptural
detailing, orchestrated and
enhanced my feelings.
This became especially apparent
in gothic churches
where my being was drawn from the
floor to the ceiling as
my eyes followed the towering
pillars to realize a
larger than-life awareness. Classical
buildings reaffirmed a
sense of balance, grandeur, and
harmony that I enjoyed
being enveloped.
My creative journey has
had varied expressions: paint,
metals, glass, wood,
plaster, architectural interiors.
Generally
the application has been as been in an
architectural
setting either as a designer or general
contractor,
or as an artisan or artist of a specific artwork.
Since
1995 I have collaborated with Dr. Norman
Wengert
on my public commissions and personal
creativity
utilizing a teachable methodology he discovered
and
developed to choose all aspects of the creative
process
from the selection of precise colors site-specific
to
their application, the equivalent of feelings, to the
process
and sequence of their application to achieve the
most
impact upon individuals engaged in the environment
transformed
or in the artwork created. This methodology
Dr.
Wengert has termed enchanted sightİ; (link to
www.enchantedsight/artists
to review the descriptions
written
by Dr. Wengert underpinning the concept and
the
meaning of the colors and designs utilized
collaboratively).
When
I use enchanted sightİ, I feel Ive been
stretched
to reach for the best possible color, design,
technique, and meaning that I am capable of producing.
As
I learn to become more aware and increase in skill,
the
array of possibilities multiplies as the methodology
of
enchanted sightİ attunes and focuses my listening to
the
great source of all creativity, enabled to birth creative
expressions
in an unexpected yet disciplined way.
My
portfolio flows out of this continuum of dialogue
between
my evolving self inspired by nature and my daily
experiences,
monitored by a methodology that enables
me
to grow in discernment and purposed creativity.
