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ART
STEPHANIE VÉZINA
INTUITIVE ARTIST
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IN 2013, THE FATES BROUGHT ME BACK TO MY HOME TOWN OF OTTAWA, CANADA, AFTER A SERIES OF ADVENTURES THAT LEFT ME IN NEED OF HEALING AND GROUNDING. UNSURE OF WHERE MY PATH WAS LEADING ME, I ACCEPTED A DEAR FRIEND'S OFFER TO USE A STORE FRONT HE HAD ACQUIRED AND DECIDED TO STAGE A WEEKEND VINTAGE CLOTHING POP-UP WHICH I NAMED "RASPBERRY BERET POP UP SHOP" AFTER THE RASPBERRY CASHMERE BERET I WAS LABELLING FOR THE EVENT WHICH WOUND UP BEING A LITTLE MORE PERMANENT THAN I HAD ANTICIPATED.
IT TURNED OUT BEING A BEAUTIFUL YEAR AND A HALF CHAPTER, THAT GAVE ME A SEDENTARY MOMENT IN MY GYPSY LIFE, TO HOLD DOWN A SPACE, LEARN SOME NEW SKILLS AND KEEP HONING OTHERS, SUCH AS PAINTING, MUSIC AND VIDEO PRODUCTION AS WELL AS MATERIALIZE SOME OF MY LONG HELD PLANS, ONE OF WHICH HAD BEEN TO LEARN SILK SCREENING.
MY FIRST SCREEN WAS OF THE IMAGE PICTURED HERE TO THE LEFT, IT CAME FROM A SERIES OF INK PIECES I HAD PAINTED WITH MY LEFT HAND (AFTER THE RIGHT ONE BEGAN YIELDING PREDICTABLE RESULTS) AND AT A TIME WHEN I WAS LOOKING TO MAKE SENSE OUT OF THESE WORDS... "EXCLUSION INCLUSION". THEY ARE SUBJECTIVE AND DEPENDENT UPON PERCEPTION, BUT TO ME THEY RESONATE AS EQUATING TO THE + AND THE - OF OUR HUMAN, SOCIAL PARADIGM. ULTIMATELY THERE IS A TIME TO SEE LIFE THROUGH THE LENS OF BOTH IN OUR JOURNEY TOWARDS A STATE OF EQUILIBRIUM. WHERE THEY COME TO BE UNDERSTOOD AND INTEGRATED AS TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN, INTRINSICALLY LINKED TO ONE ANOTHER AND FURTHER ECHOED ON EVERY SCALE OF OUR COLLECTIVE WORLD. INEVITABLY WE RESIDE WHERE OUR ENERGY VIBRATES AND AS WE ELEVATE THROUGH DIMENSIONS WE ARE BEING REFINED, EXPULSED FROM THERE WHERE WE CAN NO LONGER BE. WE ARE CONSTANTLY BEING INCLUDED AND EXCLUDED FROM DIFFERENT ENERGIES AT ALL TIMES, INCHING ALONG LIKE A CATERPILLAR TOWARDS EVOLUTION.
WHEN IT WAS TIME FOR ME TO GIVE A NAME TO MY NEW BUSINESS, IT APPEARED TO ME THERE, IN THAT PRINT AS ART.
EVENTUALLY I DEDICATED THE SHOP SPACE ENTIRELY TO MY ART AND SOON AFTER THAT MY NOMADIC LIFE RESUMED TAKING ME BACK TO NYC IN 2015.
AS MY CREATIVE PATH CONTINUOUSLY TAKES SHAPE, ALL EXPRESSIONS OF MY MUSE, WHETHER ART, MUSIC, VIDEO, DANCE, DESIGN OR DIVINATORY CREATIONS... ALL FALL UNDER THAT TAG
AND THE REST IS MY HISTORY IN THE MAKING...
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